The first half of our around-the-world journey followed a relatively fluid line through South America, Australia and New Zealand, up into Asia, and across to India.  We think of it like a well-orchestrated piece of music.  The second half of the trip is shaping up to play much more like jazz.  We have far fewer reservations made, we’re going to be much more improvisational, and instead of traveling from one continent to the next, we’re going to enter and exit Europe several times, traveling to the Middle East and heading down to Africa on two separate occasions.  It was originally our plan to spend the new year in Israel, but the conflict that erupted there in November forced a change of course that had us traveling to Turkey in late December, then finding our way to Barcelona where we are currently hunkered down, plotting our adventures for 2013.Double-click the image above to see where we have been and where we are going.  You’ll notice some exciting new additions that weren’t on the previous itinerary — specifically Greece, Kenya and Iceland.  While nothing is set in stone and there’s much improvisation to come, here’s the very rough shape of the second half of our journey:
Barcelona: Until January 9
Bilbao, Spain:  January 9-12
Geneva, Switzerland:  January 13-15
The French Alps and Lyon:  January 16-23
Lisbon and Portugal:  January 23-29
Southern Spain:  January 29-February 3
Morocco:  February 3-13
Israel:  February 14-28
Istanbul:  March 1-3
Kenya:  March 3-14
Paris:  March 15-April 15
Italy:  Late April
Eastern Europe and Greece:  Early May
Austria, Germany and Holland:  Late May into June
Copenhagen and Scandinavia:  The better part of June
England, Ireland, Scotland:  Late June into July
Reykjavik, Iceland:  Mid-July
New York and Fire Island:  Late July

If you happen to be overlapping with us anywhere along the way, let us know.  We’d love to see you.  If you happen to know anyone we should meet in these places, let us know too.  We’d love to meet them.