In search of the kind of adventure that had initially pushed him into the structured life of a legionnaire, Dave set off on a life-changing one-year trip that took him from Morocco to Jordan overland then from Kenya to the Democratic Republic of Congo he'd always wanted to travel through Africa.
In search of the kind of adventure that had initially pushed him into the structured life of a Legionnaire, Dave set off on a life-changing one-year trip that took him from Morocco to Jordan and then from Kenya to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (he'd always wanted to travel through Africa).
Chilean Patricio Sepulveda, 31, used one of these working holiday visas to transition a one-year trip to Sydney into a new career.
This time, our planned one-year trip around the world having extended into long-term travel, we took a house in Bali, with the plan to head to Papua by way of the islands of Lombok, Sumbawa, Flores and Timor.
They had intended to take a one-year trip from Essex, Conn., through the Caribbean to South America and back, but ended up spending almost five years living in the islands, celebrating birthdays in Grenada, Christmas in the Pitons and spending three years in the rain forest of Nevis.
One year later, on a trip to South East Asia, he fell sick with an intestinal obstruction.
A camping trip one year in October on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan sent my wife and me down fingers of the trail to explore waterfalls and overlooks, where yellow leaves packed a forest floor and trees were brown stalks in a crisp wind.
One year later, the trips to the World Series began.
Even if everything does go according to plan, though, cynics might question the value of a billion-dollar, one-and-a-half year trip that comes within spitting distance of Mars but does not land.
Sometimes she or her husband will take a one-on-one trip with their 13-year-old daughter, Samantha, a nationally ranked junior tennis player — on a recent jaunt to Los Angeles, mother and daughter visited the set for "Ocean's Thirteen" and ducked in and out of shops on Rodeo Drive.
One year I asked for a trip to the dermatologist for Christmas.
