What would you do?

If I had a large budget, these would be on my list:

Easter Island.

Antarctica.

Iceland and Greenland. Geographically, one is very young and the other is extremely old, and I'd love to compare the amazing natural features of both.

Find the real-life version of my image of a paradise island (The first place I'd look would be the Seychelles).

Scuba-diving somewhere exotic.

A hot air balloon flight over a great landscape.

All this planning is nasty in my opinion. Before I head off I have an idea of where I might be heading but that is about it. My planning for this trip was getting a new passport - get some dollars in cash and traveler's checks, some euros as well and my train-ticket from Denmark to Berlin. I thought of either buying an Interrail card in Berlin or travel down Eastern Europe to Istanbul and maybe eventually ending up in North Western Papua New Guinea traveling surface.
In Berlin I went into a bookstore and got a look in LP Eastern Europe informing me I didn't need a visa for Ukraine and Moldova so that's where I went. In the same bookstore I saw the LP Arabian Peninsula that mentioned I didn't need a visa for UAE. Hmmm, I've got two friends working in Dubai - maybe I should visit them. Saw on the Thorntree that getting a visa for Armenia was much easier and cheaper now (USD30 at the border) so now I'm in Tbilisi spending the night in an internet cafe having decided on the slow train connection to Yerevan but not tomorrow as I thought 12 hours ago but maybe in a month. I read on the TT as well that there is now a bus connection from Oman to Yemen so I won't return to UAE ater a visit to Muscat as I had otherwise thought. From Yemen there is a ferry to Djibouti so maybe I'll end up sailing down the Zaire/Congo River from Kisangani/Stanleyville instead of sailing along the Indonesian islands on the way to New Guinea. Who knows. I certainly don't!

30k?! i'm currently doing overland asia and the middle east on 5k for 14 months, and it goes a little something like this....

russia (trans-sib), mongolia (GO HERE, it's beautiful, had 2 weeks which just wasn't enough), china, pakistan, india, nepal, india, pakistan, afghen if they'll let me in, iran, turkey, syria (arabic language course), lebannon, jordan, israel and palestine, egypt for the windsurfing if i have any money left, and then sailing home through the med from greece or turkey to france and getting the train back to london. i'd see the best bits of every continent and then take my snowboard to oz and canada for 6 months if i were you.

beck