matt gross nytimes travel writer

I found an intersting article in the nytimes by matt gross. Last year, matt gross traveled around the world in 90 days as a budget traveler. Here is a link to some answers to questions about his trip.

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/06/28/travel/28frugaltravelerQNA.html

I was thinking of either doing a short trip around the world, come back, move to a new city get a job or come back, work some more and maybe take a really long trip around the world. I think a short trip around the world might be overly ambitious. Perhaps, i can just do south asia and then go to eastern europe where i hear it still reasonable and then fly back to the states. Technically that would be an around the world trip and can i start off my travel stories with well last year i traveled around the world.