backpack around the world for a year

I have been yearning to travel around the world for quite a while now but have a few hurdles standing in my way. My parents live in a bubble and are not very supportive of this trip. They do not outright discourage me but they clearly do not think that the trip will materialize.
I have accepted the fact that I will be traveling alone since I no longer have any friends from high school or even college at home. I’ve done a lot of research and many people actually favor traveling solo because it allows them to do whatever they want, when they want.
The only thing holding me back from booking a trip this second is the fact that I am kind of nervous… I’ve grown a bit attached to my family over the past two years due to a couple tragic events and I am worried about becoming homesick. I did travel to Madrid 2 years ago and ended up cutting my trip short since my Uncle died a month earlier. It was honestly too soon to travel and I was not ready to leave home. This time I feel like it is my time to go. I guess this fear of becoming homesick is normal. I wish I had more support and maybe a partner in crime to travel around the world together!
Anyways, since I am not an experienced traveler, ANY and ALL advice is most definitely welcome since I have absolutely no idea where to even begin planning!! Also, anyone have any advice for overcoming the feeling of being homesick?

Travel the world and see every country that I could. And I would take my time, meeting people and learning more about the cultures and ways of the world. Not just a couple weeks or months, but a couple of years.

Unfortunately I wont be able to do it for a while as I am newly married with a 1 year old, not to mention my hubby doesn’t have the same passion for the world like I do.

But some day it would be nice to do.

this is something i have wanted to do simce i can remember but now i am in the saving money stage and am planning to go when i graduate college!!!i jus have to find someone that can go with me lol

I am already in planning and saving for a year long trip around the world. Departure date is set for March 2010! I would love any tips I could get.

Hey, so I am on board just like everyone else here. Except I don’t have the means to get this done right now (money primarily).

But I would love any advice, of places to see, money to save. If anyone else is in the same situation, and are saving for this trip within the next year, LET ME KNOW. Right now I don’t have a travel buddy and would love one for any portion of the trip.

Right now I’m planning on starting in Ireland, UK, France, Belgium, Germany, Scandinavia area maybe?, Switzerland, Spain maybe?, Italy, Greece, Austria, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia,Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Then either boat of fly to India, Nepal, Tibet (china), Burma Thailand, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, Southern tip of Chile, Antarctica if possible (i know why?), Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Then fly to Alaska, and come back down through Canada.

It’ll probably take longer then a year – but whatever it takes I guess. I’m looking to have about 15,000 USD for the trip.

If anyone cares to respond, would love to hear throughts

I turn 21 this year, and I really want to backpack around the world. 4 weeks leaving just after my birthday. That way i’m legal in all countries, and gives me plenty of time to save! I have no idea how much I’ll need or anything, but I can’t wait! I’ve been wanting to do this for years now.

I’m already in Europe for work and when I finish next year I’m going to start my trip from here hopefully I will be able to get a few people to go with me by then. Eastern Europe and Asia are my top priorities however I want to go everywhere so I’m planning now and saving.

They’d work in one town in europe, then the money they make from like working at restaurants or teaching english they’d move on to the next city. My soul is in butterflies everytime i think of backpacking, but I won’t be able until I get my passport which will be soon! I too would like to hook up with peeps to go with but I’d also don’t mind going by myself either!

I would love to backpack around the world, probably europe first. If i could leave tomorrow I would, I have gone back and forth about whether or not to go alone. I would love to go with some new people and get to know ourselves and each other along the way, while discoverying the amazing things this earth and it’s people have to share. On the other hand I feel like I want this for myself, I want to experience things on my own and have my own unique moment in time, but for a first time traveler, maybe a group is best. If i could save up enough money to get going I would. I’ve been reading from some people on the net about camping at campgrounds, staying at someones’s place for a night or two, or even just going the hostel route. They all sound like such adventures, and I would love to try a little of each- but it’s just not my time yet i guess. I work for attorney’s now, and every day i think, “i have to get out now, i don’t want this boring desk job life-it’s just not me! When the time is right, and if nobody else has embarked on their journey’s yet, I’d totally be up for discovering the world together!

ive been planning more and more on going to Europe and traveling from Western England to the far East of Asia. i had like 4 people that i had gathered from travel companion sites, because none of my friends have the same goals as me you know, its hard to find a person thats against the grain like me im not gunna lie.  But even the people from the travel sites ended up bailing or just being to wierd. 
 ive pretty much decided i will go alone,  for the past few weeks i havent heard from anyone about traveling,  I feel like I am literally the only one who has this yearning, i hear from people that say they want to do this but no one who has the balls to really go, and each day that passes makes me feel more and more confused and fallacious. the last thing i want to do is go alone, i want that unspoken collective to share with someone, anyone that is fed up with bullshit and isnt afraid to say it or isnt afraid to say when someone says, “you cant just get up and leave! you have an obligation to your country, your people! your going to turn your back on them?” ive pondered this and asked myself where is the greater good, and frankly, most successful people I know are fuckheads, a world that revolves around money and fear,  fear of war, fear of poverty, fear of random terrorism, fear of getting down-sized or fired because of the plunging economy, isnt one that i feel obligated to ride in order to change in hindsight maybe a few opinions in my lifetime.
   ive thought about emersion into the counter culture, the rebellion against consumerism, and just fuck the man stuff like assless chaps at a court hearing, yet it doesnt seem like a legitimate use of my time here, my reasoning is simple, there are things in life that have more value, meaning, and purpose than the manufactured products of a lifeless and mechanized society. And im tired of crucifying ourselves between regret for the past and fear of the future, i never want to have to say the words “If only” I am convinced of this truth thoroughly enough that a life of not knowing where my next meal will come from, or the next day will bring good or bad, is one that I am prepared for and willing and will be the most unforgettable, no regrets, not letting any kind of fear drive me any direction, only my heart, i have no idea how long i will be gone but i do know it will be a long time. The core of mans’ spirit comes from new experiences and being the artists who spits on artist organizations, the intoxicated friend at a party who admits what everyone is too afraid to say, the conceiver of boycotts, i am hopeless, or just confused, for mankind that i am just short of a complete and total revolution.  willing to spend my life proving that absence of consumer culture doesn’t mean absence of culture. rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness. give me truth.