1. Undergraduate: study languages (Classical Greek, Latin, Syriac, Arabic)
2. do a second undergraduate degree: study more languages: Persian, Urdu, Sanskrit
3. do a PhD somewhere : study more languages (Turkish, Tibetan, other Indian/Semitic dialects...)
4. Live as a hermit/monk/holy man in the Himalayan foothills for a few years, meditating and living off the land. Travel in disguise through the mountains of Afghanistan, through Georgia around the Black Sea and into Turkey, passing through all the Ancient Hittite towns. Avoid being killed by rebels. Write some books. Do a linguistic analysis of tribal dialects (?)
5. Do the same in Africa. Sail up the Nile, visit the Tassili Frescoes. Journey through the Sahara on a camel.
6. Become an academic (?)
7. Write more books