Travel the world on your own?

The TEFL situation would be perfect for travelling alone, all you need is a degree in any subject and to do the course. I did one a few years ago i have to say though i did not find it that helpful. A lot of people just think of the travel aspect of TEFL but remember you will be responsible for a class of students and be expected to teach them good English and they may be children and they will have to pass exams . And you will be working in a foreign enviroment and be graded on your preformance it is a job like any other and you will be expected to be professional. It is differant from backpacking and being able to do your own thing. When you have a job and a boss it changes things. But it is good sometimes to get the experience of living in a country rather than pass through it. You would of course teach through English but you might need a bit of the language to get you around. Some programes give you somewhere to live aswell as a job and this can be helpful.
In the end i just did the course and did not travel i just thought it might be too like working in Ireland, you know worrying about the pressures of the job etc. Although doing it in another country would be totally different i imagine and the hours are very good.

But backpacking does allow a certain freedom or you could do agricultural work like when you pick grapes in France for three hours a day and have the rest off, you can do that in farms around europe and travel around to each one if you arrange it in advance. THere is this oraganization that does things like that i think it is called H.O.O.F.E.R.S international or something there might be some one on here who might know the name for definite, i am not sure.

Bakpacking is something i would not do alone though but you can find someone just to go travelling with. But the downside is you dont always know what someone is really like just from a few meetings though.

Anyway whatever you decide i hope you get what you want from it