Tag: plan
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How to choose your next adventure… still in the pandemic
Travel is complicated right now, and working in it puts me in the crossroads of trying to find the most ethical and moral means to travel right now. I have to travel for my job and mental health. Others need similar things, and many are trying to find some refuge…
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Hiking Lessons
While it’s easy to plan on “a walk in nature” what many fail to realize is that a walk in nature can turn into a deadly situation without planning ahead.
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Natural Born Control Freak
I am a natural born stubborn control freak. STUBBORN. CONTROL. FREAK. I am so stubborn that when I was a toddler I would get angry that I wouldn’t get my way and I would hold my breath until I passed out. My mom would ignore me, my grandma thought I…
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Keep Making Plans
It’s easy to feel overwhelmed by life. We live in a culture that celebrates being constantly busy. We find ourselves overloaded with clubs and projects and cleaning that it’s hard to feel like it’s worthwhile to think about next week let alone next year. Yet, in the planning of life…
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Don’t Plan Too Much
As a follow up to my last post, Plan Ahead, Avoid the Headache, I wanted to share the opposite problem for travelers to ponder, planning too much. Flash to January 2010 and I am a nervous 18, almost 19 year old, planning their first trip to Europe. I was working…
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Plan Ahead, Avoid the Headache
Essentially when it comes to traveling, especially internationally, planning can mean huge savings, better experiences, and a smoother journey than winging it on the last minute.
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A Stack of Magazines
It’s easy to say “I read” as a kid. It’s much more interesting to explain exactly what that looked like. My family are readers, through and through, every room, including the bathrooms, had books or magazines in them. Often she leaves were two or three deep, the coffee table housed…
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What I Wish You Knew
It’s easy in 2018 to find information on every part of the world….except when it is not. While there are probably millions of pieces on Paris and London, there are only a handful of helpful writings on parts of American Samoa, or rural areas of Vietnam. While more people explore…
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Packing for Kids
My mom and I used to fight about who got to pack bags for trips. My mom and I are both type A personalities, and stubborn, and sometimes control freaks (just being honest). Thus, when stubborn preteen me took a trip, she would argue with her mom about what was…
