One again, thanks for all the help I've gotten on this. I can tell that planning this is going to be very exciting and the actual trip will a dream come true. It should be agreat way to end my educational career and enter my real career.

This question concerns the timing of purchasing a OWE ticket.

My understanding is that the ticket is valid for one year. I assume that means one year after the commencement of the first segement, and not one year after purchasing the ticket?

Since I would want to buy the ticket before the rates go up, but would not do the bulk of the traveling until August 2002, would I have to purchase the ticket (most likley I wouold do this in September) and get fully ticketed and then fly one segement to lock in the fare, or is it that once you have paid and are ticketed, you could start it whenever you wanted to (within the one year, if that is correct)?

If I was to fly the first segment after getting ticketed in September, could I then wait until August to fly the next segment, or is this too long a wait?

Since surface transport is permitted within a continent, I am assuming that it would be okay to start the ticket from Canada, fly to Chicago and then restart the trip from NY. Is this correct?

Also, if I do fly from Toronto to Chicago on the ticket, would I be locked into traveling in a westerly direction, or does this not matter as it is within one zone?

Thanks so much for any answers you may have!