Route notes
Why this routing works
This 8-week economy itinerary is built as a westbound multi-stop route with two planned surface sectors. The first flight sequence runs Miami to Lima, Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo, and Santiago, then resumes in Auckland after an overland break from Santiago. A second surface gap appears after Anchorage, with the ticket picking back up in Vancouver before continuing to Seattle and Santa Fe.
The stop pattern gives most of the time to Lima, Rio de Janeiro, and Brisbane, with shorter stays in Montevideo, Santiago, Christchurch, Honolulu, and Anchorage. That structure helps keep the long-haul flying concentrated into clear regional blocks: South America first, then New Zealand and Australia, then the Pacific and North America on the way back.
From a ticketing standpoint, this is a good example of using an open-jaw structure to connect flight sectors with independent ground or sea travel. Auckland and Vancouver are both marked as overland arrival points, so the airfare is designed around where the flight portions start and stop rather than forcing a fully air-only sequence. In economy, the published range for this routing is from USD 4,591 to USD 6,010.
Timing the trip in May places the itinerary within the April-June season window shown here. With 14 total cities including the origin and endpoint, and 12 flight-linked stop points between them, this is a complex but orderly routing that balances longer stays with a steady onward progression across the Pacific.