Travel Every Day: Transforming Your Life with the Trip of a Lifetime by Ennis John

Author:Ennis, John [Ennis, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-03-07T22:00:00+00:00

When setting your big-picture structure, it’s essential that you determine which days of the week are the best days for your day trips. For instance, Mondays are often problematic days for visiting small towns in Europe, as many of the sights in those towns are closed. Wherever you plan to visit, though, you’ll need to find out the particular details of your destination on your own. Fortunately, this information can be obtained from any quality guidebook, and it’s a good idea to cross-reference the information in one guidebook with the information found in a second guidebook or online to be sure. In a later chapter, we’ll talk about how to handle unexpected inconveniences if they occur, but a better approach is to avoid them completely.

Once you determine approximately where you’d like to be on each day, you should start to think about transportation. Using your standard resources of guidebooks and the Internet, you should be able to determine the best ways to travel between your various locations. Try to build plans with clear knowledge that transportation exists and will be available at reasonable times between the various places you’d like to go. It’s not always necessary to purchase tickets ahead of time, but it’s advisable to do as much research as you can to make sure that the traveling goes as smoothly as possible later on.

One last point regarding travel is that renting a car on your trip could be a bad idea, in my opinion. In addition to introducing the possibility of losing your way, driving requires your attention. Unless there is a sight of personal importance to you can only be accessed via automobile, there’s little reason to rent a car and many reasons to take public transportation instead. Even the potential for time saving can be outweighed by the enjoyment of talking to locals or relaxing with your travel partner in a train station or coffee shop while you wait for your train. Nowhere was I more glad of this lesson on my travels than in Morocco, where my wife and I wisely decided to hire a driver. Thankfully this decision spared us the incredible stress of navigating hairpin turns on mountain roads, with reckless taxi drivers coming at us around blind turns in the wrong lane.

Now that we’ve discussed where you’re going to be and how you’re going to get there, we need to consider how you’re going to manage yourself to make sure that your trip is as safe as possible. There will always be risks, of course, but some research ahead of time can do much to minimize those risks. For instance, we’ve already talked about vaccines being required for visits to some countries. More generally, it’s advisable to be aware of the possibilities of diseases such as malaria or yellow fever, depending on your destination, and to know something about the local water quality. Similarly, the best way to avoid being mugged is to avoid situations in which a mugging attempt is probable. For instance, it’s not advisable to walk on the beach in Rio de Janeiro at night.

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