We ended up spending a while longer in Rio than we originally planned. We've done that a couple of times on our long trip, usually after a period of some pretty intense traveling. After we'd moved around a whole bunch in India we spent nine days in Thailand's Koh Lanta and in Indonesia we got stuck on Gili Air for twelve days. We hadn't had any regrets about staying in one place for long so after we'd spent about a month and a half road tripping around Australia ...

I simply don't get how people can travel around the world without making decent plans. Spontaneity is great and I admire it in a person, but some countries don't. With this I mean that in order to be allowed to enter some countries you need to also have acquired the ticket out of there. I can't remember exactly which places have required this but there have been a few. Since we booked all of our flights beforehand this hasn't been a problem for us. That is, befor...