When you come home from traveling, usually you just want to leave again. And so it is. For the next few months, we’ll be working hard behind the scenes to make this site better (and you will continue to see clandestine updates to my personal blog), but in the meantime, you can’t blame a man for fantasizing about the possibilities of the future. Some may ask, hasn’t he had enough of this? If you do, you clearly haven’t been watching our episodes or reading the blog. My life is rich. So without further ado, Here are my four 3-country circuit options, broken out by geographic region.

A brief ado: My ratings and scales are entirely subjective based on hunches and basic research on a scale of 1,600 in honor of the Brian Lio International Satisfaction Scale (or BLISS). Feasibility reflects employment and cost of living. Life-Enrichment is the degree to which doing this makes me a better person.

Option #1: Eastern Europe – (after a brief stopover in Istanbul..) Odessa, Ukraine; Riga, Latvia; and St. Petersburg, Russia.

Total transit cost: $900 (all planes – not kidding)
Feasibility rating (out of 1600): 1200
Fun points (also out of 1600): 1400
Life-Enrichment Rating: 500

Option #2: Middle East – Beirut, Lebanon; Jerusalem, Israel; and Cairo, Egypt

Total transit cost: $720 (wow, even cheaper – after Beirut, all taxis)
Feasibility: 800
Fun points: 900
LER: 1600

Option #3: Subcontinent – Yangon, Burma; Kathmandu, Nepal; and Goa, India

Total transit cost: $2,200 (that looks more reasonable – all planes)
Feasibility: 400 (*volunteering in Kathmandu)
Fun points: 1000
LER: 1400

Option #4: South America – Calí, Colombia; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and Buenos Aires, Argentina

Total transit cost: $1700 (all planes)
Feasibility: 1100
Fun points: 1500
LER: 900