Not by a longshot!  First, I should confess that Adam’s done the lion’s share of our advance planning. First, because he loves to really dig in to the details and enjoys the pre-trip phase almost as much as the actual trip itself. And second, because I’m really more of a broad brushstrokes gal, I have no business managing a spreadsheet.

Thankfully we’ve found a great team of travel professionals to help us with various portions of our journey. First, Sofie and Francisco of YourWay2Travel have been instrumental in helping us keep our ducks in a row for the European bookends of our trip. Our southern hemisphere travel has been planned by Phil West of PhilWestSafaris. And we’ve currently got Our Man in India working on that part of the journey—more details when that’s finalized.