When planning and organizing a major overseas trip, you
normally find yourself between two extremes. One is to have every hour of every
day mapped out and the other is to show up with no itinerary at all and go
wherever the wind takes you. Personally, I fall more towards the organized side
of the spectrum, however I try to have a little flexibility built into my
travels.
On arrival overseas, I have an itinerary of places I want to
go and things I want to do, but I don’t hold myself strictly to it. I normally
book my accommodations/reservations one to two weeks at a time, which gives me
some wiggle room to adjust things further out in the trip, even though most of
the time I do stick with the itinerary I mapped out prior to the trip. When I
arrive in a city I normally have a list of things to see/do, however I try to
give myself a bit of leeway on how and what order they are done. This is my
personal balance between order and chaos, but I've known some people that
decided the next city on the fly and booked as they went, which gave the maximum
amount of flexibility, but at the cost of normally higher prices for
accommodations and a higher risk of not getting into certain sights or finding
an ideal place to stay.
Some people can travel like that and have a great experience, but for me this would prove very challenging. I like to have a bit of chaos for seasoning and dessert, but I'll stick with order for the main meal.
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