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Woman Fulfills the Ultimate Dream, Traveling Around the World in 13 Days
Woman Fulfills the Ultimate Dream, Traveling Around the World in 13 Days
Jan 17, 2024 3:40 PM

Megan Sullivan wasn’t about to allow three life-altering events crush her three-year dream of traveling around the world.

Last winter, Sullivan fell from a cliff in Yosemite National Park and was hit by a car on a Vespa, Today.com said. But the worst experience came in the .

Megan Sullivan didn't let anything stand in the way of fulfilling her three-year dream: traveling around the world. (Photo Credit: Megan Sullivan/Inside Edition)

After a minor cancer surgery, the 31-year-old received 13 days off from work and decided there was no time like the present to fulfill the ultimate trip with her boyfriend, Chris McNamara. Lucky for the wanderlust struck couple, sunny skies and seemingly cooperative weather accompanied their journey.

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“You start to think there’s . I just kind of planned it all backward from 13 days, clocking it like once we land here, take a train to here and back, drive there,” Sullivan told ABC News.

Sullivan and McNamara , totaling 28,211 miles, and visited the Seven Wonders of the World, according to her blog.

Normally, you would think a trip of this magnitude would take months or even years to plan, but the couple planned it 10 days before their departure date in exactly three hours, she said.

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Sullivan recounted her stops through videos and photographs, portraying everything from the endless Great Wall of China to the stunning stone city of Petra, Jordan.

She offers an extensive how-to-prepare guide on her blog, with advice on companionship, visas, flights and more.

“If I could summarize with a key takeaway from the trip,” she said, “It would be the marketing trademark coined in 1988 of 'Just Do It.'”

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