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In exactly four weeks’ time I’ll be setting off on an around-some-of-the-world trip.<\/p>\n

People often ask me if I get less enthused about travel because I do a lot of it for my job, but what’s actually happened is that the more I’ve travelled the more I’ve realised that the world is vast and amazing and that there’s no way I can see all of it on bite-sized trips, so I’m leaving Cape Town for a year on the road (and in the air).<\/p>\n

The plan is to go to the US, followed by South America, Central America and Europe, with the first stop in New York (one of my favourite cities) for a few weeks. I’m beyond excited.<\/p>\n

As I’m starting to pack up my life and planning to soon say\u00a0farewell to the people I’ll miss the most, Jack Kerouac’s\u00a0words keep coming to mind:<\/p>\n

“What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks disappearing? – it’s the too-huge world vaulting us and it’s good bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.”<\/p>\n

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