Originally Posted by Gardyloo

For example, say you pull the trigger and do a business class RTW beginning in Egypt. Head east and do your walkabout in Asia, Australia/NZ, and North America, then fly home to the UK with, say, six months left on the 12-month clock. You'd still have two stopovers and three flights left available in Europe/Middle East (assuming your first "Europe" segment is something like CAI-xDOH-XXX in order to get to Asia.)

So that's your first Europe stopover. Go back to work or school, whatever, then a few months later, spend a weekend or a week in, say, Italy or Spain or Finland... anywhere in Europe (second stopover) then fly to anywhere in the Middle East - doesn't have to be Egypt, could be Dubai or Israel - to end the trip.

You'll have gotten one "big" trip and a couple of short ones, separated by months, out of the one ticket.

Originally Posted by skunker

Don't forget the inevitable sunburned head.

A lot of rental car companies offer specials for one-ways between SoCal and Las Vegas or within California. OP, just do some searches and try different promo codes and you should be OK.

Originally Posted by Gardyloo

Especially since you're talking about hiring convertibles etc., a big cost-saving consideration is that rental/hire car companies in the US charge enormous one-way or "drop" fees for cars rented in one city and left in another. For the (sorry) stereotypical Brit-in-a-Mustang trip in California/Nevada, this can add hundreds of dollars to the car hire price, a surcharge that can be avoided by returning the car to where you got it.