My epic journey...

25 destinations across 5 continents 
47,000+ miles to be traveled over approximately 6 months
<$2000 total flight costs across 20 flights

Equivalent best flight value $10k on Kayak

Planned Highlights...
Conferences - USAID in DC, HOBY in San Francisco, US Commerce Dept Trade Mission in Johannesburg
Classes - speed reading in NYC, Sam Christensen in LA
Nature - great barrier reef in Australia, safari in Tanzania or Kenya
New cities with an apartment - Vancouver for ~1 month
Business - throughout 


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I could use help with...
Lifting stuff into storage on June 5th - hurt my shoulder 
Meeting people in each location for fun and business
Places to stay to reduce travel/accomodation costs

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Route

Copy and paste this to see the destinations
http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=JFK-PHL-IAD-SFO-PDX-SEA-YVR-LAX-AKL-MEL-CNS-BNE-SIN-HKG-JNB-DUR-CPT-LOS-ACC-LOS-JNB-DAR-NBO-DAR-LHR-MIA-LGA&PM=b:disc7%2b%25N&DU=mi

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Business
For the type of business I'm doing around the world please see 
www.davidlross.com/DLRsummary.pdf

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Dates and locations...

Pack stuff and put in storage monday june 5th
live off of to-be-donated clothes june 6th
june 7th NYC via bus to philly morning first thing
in philly june 7th with other guy and lawyer (both?)
then to DC for dinner june 7th at rivkins
conference june 8th out w/ eric and ?
june 9th conference and fly to kim's thing in SF
june 10th in SF w/ HOBY kids
June 11th in SF w/ HOBY kids
June 12th in SF w/ HOBY kids
june 13th in SF ?
june 14th - ? 
june 23rd fly from SF to LA 
june 24th sam christensen class
june 25th sam christensen class
june 26th sam christensen class
june 27th sam chirstensen class
june 28th fly to portland in morning
june 29th in portland
june 30th in portland
july 1 in seattle/vancover
july 2-aug 1 in vancouver
aug 2nd fly vancover to LA - $214
aug 2nd evening fly LA to auk to mel arriving on aug 4th
aug 5 melbourne
aug 6th melbourne
aug 7th fly melbourne to cairns for great barrier reef
aug 8th great barrier reef
aug 9th great barrier reef
aug 10th fly cairns to brisbane to singapore
aug 11th singapore/KL
aug 12th singapore/kl
aug 13th singapore/kl
aug 14th singapore/kl
aug 15th singapore/kl
aug 16th fly singapore to hong kong to johannesburg
aug 17th joburg
aug 18th joburg
aug 19th joburg
aug 20th joburg
aug 21st fly joburg to lagos
aug 22nd lagos
aug 23rd lagos
aug 24th lagos
aug 25th lagos
aug 26th lagos
aug 27th lagos
aug 28th fly lagos to accra
aug 29th accra
aug 30th accra
aug 31st accra
sept 1st accra
sept 2nd accra
sept 3rd accra
sept 4th accra
sept 5th accra
sept 6th accra
sept 7th accra
sept 8th fly accra to lagos
sept 9th lagos
sept 10th lagos
sept 11th fly lagos to joburg
sept 12th - around south africa
sept 13th - around south africa
sept 14th - around south africa
sept 15th - around south africa
sept 16th - around south africa
sept 17th - around south africa
sept 18th - around south africa
sept 19th - in joburg for commerce tour
sept 20th - in joburg for commerce tour
sept 21th - in joburg for commerce tour
sept 22th - in joburg for commerce tour
sept 23th - in joburg for commerce tour
sept 24th - in joburg for commerce tour
sept 25th - in joburg for commerce tour
sept 26th - fly joburg to dar
sept 27th - dar
sept 28th - dar
sept 29th - dar
sept 30th - dar
Oct  1st - dar
Oct  2nd - dar
Oct  3rd - dar - safari ?
Oct  4th - dar - safari ?
Oct  5th - dar - safari ?
Oct  6th - dar - safari ?
Oct  7th - dar - safari ?
Oct  8th - dar
Oct  9th - dar
Oct  10th - dar 
Oct 11th - fly dar to nairobi
oct 12th - nairobi
Oct 13th - nairobi
Oct 14th - nairobi
Oct 15th - nairobi
Oct 16th - nairobi
Oct 17th - nairobi
Oct 18th - nairobi
Oct 19th - nairobi
Oct 20th - dar
Oct 21st - dar
Oct 22nd - dar
Oct 23rd - fly dar to london
Oct 24th - london 
Oct 25th - london
Oct 26th - london
Oct 27th - london + somewhere around europe
Oct 28th - london + somewhere around europe
Oct 29th - london + somewhere around europe
Oct 30th - london + somewhere around europe
Oct 31st - london + somewhere around europe
Nov 1st - london + somewhere around europe
Nov 2nd - london + somewhere around europe
Nov 3rd - london + somewhere around europe
Nov 4th - london + somewhere around europe
Nov 5th - london + somewhere around europe
Nov 6th - london
Nov 7th - fly london to miami
nov 8th - miami
nov 9th - pre thanksgiving - miami
nov 20th - fly miami to arizona
nov 21st - thanksgiving - arizona
nov 28th - fly arizona to miami
nov x - fly to NYC