The overall route has been developed for this almost 18 month-long trip. The exact dates will remain somewhat flexible. A spreadsheet with the major stops, flight legs and flight times is shown at the bottom of this page. The overview is as follows:

Departure from home in Florida will take place close to mid-April with the planned crossing from St. John's to the Azores either the last week of April or the first week of May. Several stops are being discussed along the east coast for presentations and send-off events. These will be finalized over the coming months.

The Portuguese islands of The Azores are 1300 nautical miles southeast of St. John's, which is on the east coast of Newfoundland, or 800 nautical miles west of Portugal. These are beautiful islands and a normal stopping point for sailors crossing the Atlantic Ocean.

From the Azores I'll head to Portugal, France, Germany, England and spend the summer traveling around Europe. I'll be making presentations about my 2008 world-record flight and meeting ALS groups.

As it starts to cool off in Europe, in the fall, around October, I'll head south to Slovinia, Bosnia, Turkey and I'd like to fly into and visit Israel and Jordan. I've already started making contacts there to help me with entry and visiting those countries.

I should be heading to Africa by late November and go through Egypt, Djibouti and Kenya. My sister-in-law and nephew will be joining me in Kenya as that's were my brother used to work at Mt. Kenya Safari Club giving site-seeing flights around Mt. Kenya in an open-cockpit Waco biplane.

In January 2012 I'll be continuing south to Mozambique then across the channel to Madagascar, Mauritius and Reunion. I'll head north to the Seychelles, where I stopped for a week on my 2003 flight, then continue to Oman where I left a 55 gallon drum of fuel during my 2008 flight. After thanking the people that helped me in Oman, I'll head to India then Thailand, again to meet and thank the supporters that helped me during my maintenance stop in Chiang Mai during my 2008 flight.

As I head south I'd like to visit Brunei and Bali before heading to western and southern Australia, which I missed on my 2003 flight. After that I'll head to New Zealand taking more time to visit the South Island on this trip. Then I'll head northeast and visit some South Pacific Islands on my way to Samoa, Kiribati and Hawaii.

I'm looking at two possible flights from Hawaii to the mainland, one through Alaska and the other straight back to California. To be determined.