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There’s a lot to be said for Number 2. It can even outshine Number 1 simply because it’s passed over by those looking for “the best”. Number 2 is your own private experience, the choice without the noise and chaos that comes from being on top.
Okay, the title of this post may be a little misleading. I certainly don’t mean to say that the common stops should be omitted because they’re popular. The reasons for going there leap out at you in full color from brochures and posters everywhere. But while the Number 1s may have time-tested reasons to visit, those looking for authenticity may end up disappointed. Expectations are tough to live up to when cutting through the masses of other travelers—the mobs and the industry built to accommodate them can taint your experience pretty quickly.
I’ve put together a list of commonly requested cities in RTW itineraries, followed by those you should visit as an alternative (or even an addition).
While these recommendations may be more expensive to have in your itinerary (major cities tend to have least impact on price) the experiences gained by visiting these alternatives can be priceless and should make any added expense completely worthwhile.
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.
Shopping can be a real dilemma for people traveling on long trips, especially if you already have a weakness for hitting the rack. Retail therapy is an extremely satisfying passtime on a blue day at home, but on the road it can ruin a perfectly good pack-job, as well as your back if you have to carry that stuff around.
I’ve put together a few ideas on how to decide what and what not to buy when you’re traveling in foreign countries:
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:
It’s easy to equate traveling the world with following a series of city-points on a map, like a connect-the-dots picture in a kid’s activity book, slowly outlining a map of the world as you make your way around it. This assumption is obvious since it’s the cities that, after all, have the airports. The problem is that by flying from city to city you miss out on one of the most fascinating parts of the travel experience, the world that exists between them. Granted, the farther from the city center you get, the less access you’ll have to those things that often make you feel most at home (eg, comfy hotels, internet cafés, Starbucks’ double-tall nonfat lattes) but after traveling awhile you understand that not having these things is what you’re actually traveling for.
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