Nifty Map

Just created this map of my planned trip

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Things might (and probably will) change from my planned course but this is the general route i'm looking to take. I'm hoping to try and fit in at least Turkey & some of Eastern Europe into this, but I'm not sure yet. Because I was using miles and availability was limited I had to go to South Africa about 10 days earlier than I was planning. Not a big problem, will just give me a chance to explore South Africa a little more. (total cost: $65 in taxes/booking fees)

I had never really planned to go to africa at all when I thought of travelling, but now it's become about 1/4 of my trip. I'm not really sure what to expect there, or if I'll like it. A little worried about limiting myself planning out a lot of these dates in advance but I don't have any other options.

If only I would have jumped on the whole credit card mileage scheme earlier I could have built up 2x as many miles by now. The credit cards are all wise to the game now and it's pretty difficult to pull off cycling cards anymore. I always focused on 0% balance transfers to make money...but at the same time i could have been getting lots of miles if i searched around.

Leaving in 4 days! getting excited...