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The travel consultants currently employed at AirTreks have a vast pool of travel experience. Today we start a new series entitled “Your Agent’s Dream Trip” conceived to bring the readers of this blog planning suggestions and possibly some dreams of their own.
The question was put to the travel consultants, “without having to state your reasons, and if cost was of no importance, what would be your dream around-the-world trip in 10 stops or less.”
Departing, by Elsie esq.
“You kids don’t know how good you’ve got it,” says Grandpa from the backseat. He may be right — especially when it comes to travel. What Grandpa had to endure for better leisure traveling these days can make your head spin around: the fickle, unreliable airlines, the volatile political situations, the disease, poverty and rampaging Godzillas just to name a few.
It’s hard to quantify just how much the traveling experience has improved from your grandpa’s, or even your dad’s era to ours, but there’s little doubt that as travelers we’ve got it pretty good. From the smooth transcontinental flights, that our bags typically arrive with us, our web check-ins, etickets, electronic itineraries, planning, booking and moving around the globe, there’s no doubt it’s better now than it ever has been. And it’s in no small part due to the pitfalls the previous generation was exposed to.
To demonstrate the point, here’s how modern traveling is better than it’s ever been:
An around the world trip is quite possibly one of the most important thing you will do in your life. This may seem like an exaggeration, but even the mot cynical Washington insider can bet on a 
life-altering experience. It’s a proven way to change your attitude, your worldview and your karma forever.
What’s also true is that a big trip costs money — sometimes lots of it. But it doesn’t have to break you. So how do you cut yourself a piece of pie in the sky without having to settle for a life without an around-the-world experience? Make it cost less, that’s how. Here are the 10 best ways to make your trip more affordable without having to let go of the dream.
No one said planning a big trip was easy. It can be a nerve-racking endeavor, especially if you happen to be a
terminal procrastinator. A good way to manage the planning process is to set a timeline, thereby organizing your errands into time periods and setting up your launch in an practical and efficient manner. This post will give you that timeline, one that will hopefully engage you in the planning process and allow you to better organize your life all the way up until the day of your departure.
1 year – 6 months out:
- It’s still a bit too early to be purchasing tickets so use this time to decide upon your destinations, outline your itinerary and set a budget – in other words, dream.
Planning a big around the world trip is never easy. When you’re putting together something that digs so deep into your savings and includes places you’ve wanted to visit since time immemorial, the whole process can seem a bit overwhelming. You might as well be battling the Mongol hordes.
So where do you start?
Choosing your traveling companion (if there isn’t an obvious choice like a spouse, cousin or go-to drinking buddy) is often a daunting task to say the least. It can be a source of anxiety if not outright fear to think of how this person can effect the trip’s final outcome, change its events and especially the way we look back on it when it’s over. Who comes with you can quite literally make or break everything. So how in the world do you do it?
Well never fear, we have some suggestions. Of course we do!
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On a stale Tuesday afternoon at the office it’s easy want to get out there and travel—to see the crazy wild world you know is out there. However, when you start rearranging your life to fit in a big trip, you start seeing obstacles and creating reasons not to go.
Well, I’m here to help you quit that, to provide you motivation and shove you (ok, gently) toward the Jetway, to help you grind those gears into motion and, not to oversell it, but give you the greatest gift in the world! Travel!!
So why should you try and fulfill your travel dream? Without getting too new-agey, I’ve assembled 17 of the best reasons to enrich your woebegone life:
One of the most important and stress-inducing aspects of any major excursion is where to sleep while on the road. It can be argued that, next to setting up the route, this is the most important part of the planning process, because the sun will eventually set and when it does, you’ll need a bed on which to lay your head. 
The accommodation question leads us to two different options, both equally valid, but each having entirely different consequences both on your budget and planning process: should you book your beds ahead of time, while you’re still at home, or once you’ve hit the road?
While AirTreks does not officially book hotels we do have opinions about the matter due to its high importance to the success of an extended trip. Here are some observations on the pre- and post-departure booking methods:
Why book your tickets with AirTreks? Read on to find out!
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