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Feb 18, 2020 | 11:05 pm

#2858

ernestnywang

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Originally Posted by anabolism

You need to cross both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. So, you could do Europe-NA-SA-NA-Australia-Europe, but you'd be paying for Asia anyway, so you may as well visit there too. You could even do two visits to Asia as well as two to North America, e.g., Europe-Asia-NA-SA-NA-Australia-Asia-Europe.

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Originally Posted by andreiz

Wait, isn't this backtracking? Europe-Asia-NA is eastward and NA-Australia-Asia is westward?

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Originally Posted by anabolism

Permitted by the rules. You are allowed to back-track and visit Asia twice when one visit is for travel between Europe and Southwest Pacific, and you are allowed to visit North America twice when one visit is for travel to/from South America.

I think anabolism put the second Asia at the wrong place? "Europe-Asia-NA-SA-NA-Australia-Asia-Europe" doesn't have TATL (and has 2 TPACs) and is not a RTW routing. "Europe-NA-SA-NA-(Asia-)Australia-Asia-Europe" is permitted.