^Here's the end product!
Starting Line: Los Angeles, CA, USA
Leg 1: Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Leg 2: Urumqi, China
Leg 3: Urumqi, China
Leg 4: Kathmandu & Bhaktapur, Nepal
Leg 5: Chitwan National Park, Nepal (Elephants, Tigers, and Rhinos, Oh My!)
Leg 6: Male, Maldives
Leg 7: Antananarivo, Madagascar
Leg 8: Morondava, Madagascar (Surely you all have heard of the Avenue of the Baobabs and Tsingy de Bemaraha, right?)
Leg 9: Fly to Leon, Spain, then train to Valladolid, Spain. Also visits to Tordesillas (The Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494 split up the Americas between Spain and Portugal, so this could totally be made into a historical roadblock
a la The Amazing Race Canada 2 Episode 10) and a pit stop at Urueña (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urue%C3%B1a)
Leg 10: Back to Valladolid and then train to Segovia, Spain
Leg 11: Train to Santander, Spain and then a ferry to Plymouth, England, UK. Also visits to Exeter, Torquay, and Dartmoor, with a pit stop on the Jurassic Coast.
Leg 12: Train to London, fly to Detroit, the sign up for one of three charter flights to Mackinac Island, Michigan, United States.
Enjoy.
https://www.rome2rio.com/trip/ljpxqoxu