Alternate Vision

Oct 1: Los Angeles, US - Auckland, New Zealand
-rent car, visit the south island, and go camping at national parks
Oct 29: Auckland, New Zealand - Perth, Australia
-rent a bike and visit Rottnest Island, travel up the West coast to visit Ningaloo reef
Nov 26: Perth, Australia - Osaka, Japan
Dec 20: Osaka, Japan - Beijing, China
-take overnight train from Beijing to Yunnan Province
Jan 13: Kunming, China - Bangkok, Thailand
-travel to Chiang Mai to hike in the mountains and take a cooking class, sit on the beach at random islands
-visit Laos and Cambodia (depending on my energy level)
Feb 24: Bangkok, Thailand - Penang, Malaysia
-buy cheap ticket to the malaysian part of borneo
March 20: Penang, Malysia - Madras, India
-travel south to Kerala and take train to Bombay
April 18: Bombay, India - Istanbul, Turkey
April 28: Istanbul, Turkey - Damascus, Syria
May 22: Aleppo, Syria - Cairo, Egypt
June 19: Cairo, Egypt - Athens, Greece
-visit my friend in Athens and go island hopping for a month
July 17: Athens, Greece - Zagreb, Croatia
August 10: Zagreb, Croatia - Copenhagen, Denmark
-buy round trip flight to Iceland
September 8: Copenhagen, Denmark - London, England
-maybe visit Scotland?
September 30: London, England - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania