It's been a while but I can give any interested folks a bit of info about how this went. Well, I made a pretty good trek around estern / southeastern Europe, about 4 months worth. It went well. I'm not through, plenty left undone. For example, I didn't get any time at sea. But what I did do was stay at a couple of WWOOF farms. That went really well. The first one was in Greece, the second in Italy. It was a long trip. Here are some pictures I took: Prague: bone chapel in the Czech Republic: wine fountain in Budapest: outside the disaster site of the Chernobyl meltdown, northern Ukraine: Chernobyl ghost town (Pripyat, Ukraine): whirling dervishes in Turkey: Istanbul: WWOOF farm in Greece: WWOOF farm in Italy: For more of an update, you can read this.