The route is to be divided into 3 stages:

• Home to Japan
• Prudhoe Bay, Alaska to Tierra Del Fuego, Argentina
• South Africa to Home

There's a basic map below but given how many times the routes changed it's highly unlikely I'll be sticking to this exactly -  if anyone out there has any suggestions or recommendations of things to see on the way please e-mail them in.

So where am I now? 

Below are two maps detailing the route through the Americas. I began in Alaska on the 8th of August, 2009 and hope to get to Tierra Del Fuego for Christmas 2010.

Below is a map of the 1st leg of the journey. It began on 29th August 2008 and finished 25,998 kilometres later on the 8th of July in Tokyo, having taken in 22 countries in.