Also, planning & travel can go on concurrently, given cellphone coverage in an area. So if you were a schoolteacher with summers off, you could spend 2-3 month

Also, planning & travel can go on concurrently, given cellphone coverage in an area. So if you were a schoolteacher with summers off, you could spend 2-3 months traveling in closely-connected countries. Leaving you 9 months to de-stress with a room full of 14 year olds. :)