So very hard to offer advice on this; often one person's dream can easily be another's nightmare, but anyway...
Originally Posted by
free101girl
...3. Have the whole "whirlwind tour" experience that a RTW ticket seems to imply...
Some seasoned travelers here don't do it like that (I do, finishing RTWs in around a month or so, but not really by choice). Instead of one mother of all RTWs they take one or two rests, but at home, not under a palm tree somewhere (nothing wrong with that, for sure!).