Baird - 98 Best Travel Tips: A Guide For Travel Junkies on a Budget with Kids

98 Best Travel Tips:

A Guide For Travel Junkies on a Budget with Kids

By Chris A. Baird

Copyright 2016 Chris A. Baird

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Table of Contents

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Introduction

We travel not to escape life but for life not to escape us. Anonymous

This book is the fifth book in the bestselling PowerLists book series. Each PowerList book is designed to help you get more out of life.

Why did I write this book?

I wrote this book because far too many people dont travel. There are many reasons to travel and plenty of excuses why people dont travel more often. I want to explore the advantages and barriers of traveling.

If you are new to traveling, this book will get you started on the right foot. If you are an experienced traveler, I hope this book will give you tips to make your traveling more rewarding and less stressful. We are all travelers together and I want to share what I have learned.

How To Use This Book

It is impossible for anyone to implement all of the suggestions I have in this book. However, if my tips help you travel more and also get more out of your trips, I will have succeeded in the purpose of this book. Try out the different tips and see what does or doesnt work for you.

98 Best Travel Tips Guide Cheat Sheet

I created a three-page pdf - 98 Best Travel Tips Cheat Sheet to make it easy for you to follow along as you work through this book. It shows you all 98 steps and will serve as a checklist or refresher on the different methods explored in the book.

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1 - What Is Travel

Travel: to go on a trip or journey: to go to a place and especially one that is far away. - Merriam-Webster Dictionary.

You can see by the definition that traveling is all about going somewhere that is distant from where you are. Distance can be relative. It could mean going to a museum or park in your city that you havent been to previously. Distance may also refer to physical distance from where you live and work.

Traveling covers the exploration of the new. While traveling can include going to places you visited before, I will focus on the unknown. The ideas and tips I offer in this book also apply if you are traveling to the same place you traveled to many times in the past. I want to encourage you to think beyond the familiar; I will explore the reasons for this later in the book.

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2 - Why Should You Travel

There are many reasons you should travel more. Below you will find a comprehensive list of reasons.

Expand Your Tastes

When you travel to other regions of the country or world, you try foods you wouldnt normally try. We naturally eat the same foods again and again. Those foods dont taste as good over time because we adjust to them. A key to breaking out of this cycle is to try new foods.

The expanded diet opens our taste buds like nothing our normal diet can do. We may find foods we like less or others we like better. Whatever the case, our bodies are built in such a way that newer tastes have a greater impact than older ones.

It is possible to prepare these foods ourselves from recipes. However, tasting ethnic food from their home country or city is no comparison to what we can try in our own kitchen. In addition, the atmosphere around the food we eat will impact how these foods taste.

Better Connect to References in Movies, Books, and Conversations

The media refer to locations like Paris, London, Cairo, or Los Angeles. Having visited these different locations means you are better able to appreciate the comments people make about them. The same goes for conversations. When people discuss a place they have been to or want to travel to, having traveled there creates a connection point.

Discover Yourself

To travel is to take a journey into yourself. - Danny Kaye

Although a clich, discovering yourself has been a classic answer to why a person postpones college and backpacks across Europe for a year instead. It is stated like:

I want to travel around the world after high school to find myself or discover who I am.

Although I wouldnt recommend giving up your education for travel, I can agree that traveling helps us figure out who we are. This is amplified when exposing ourselves to people and cultures that differ greatly from our own.

We reflect more upon life when exposed to the unfamiliar which can be both positive and negative events that push us to think. It is in the familiar and the routine that we quit asking questions and just do.

Help Your Children to Develop

Traveling is different for children. They are still in their formative years. That means that the sights, sounds, and experiences they are exposed to through travel will shape who they become.

Unlike reading about history, they will:

• Experience history firsthand when visiting ancient ruins.
• Understand that people are different around the world.
• Appreciate the things they have at home and see how people live in different places.
• Retain the idea of traveling for later in life.

If they grow up traveling, children will most likely continue to do so when they become adults. This assumes their travel experiences are positive ones. That is a point I will touch on later in this book.

I remember during our trip to the ruins of Knossos on Crete that one of my sons found the ruins less than interesting. We were in the first of the ancient world labyrinths where the word labyrinth itself originates. It was the place where the legendary story of the Minotaur took place.

Since my son was most interested in reading about Donald Duck, we didnt force him to enjoy the site but rather gave him choices. Years later when he read mythology, he was excited to head to Athens alone with me on a trip to see the sites and everything was much more exciting. He also remembered his visit to the temple of Jupiter in Split, Croatia when it was mentioned in one of his books.

All children experience periods where the trips may be more or less interesting. However, by creating an environment where we travel and visit different sites, we open the possibility of childrens enjoying the sites without being forced.

New Stories to Tell

At parties and social events, do you sometimes find that you have nothing to discuss? Perhaps your life is a monotonous series of repetitive actions. Traveling gives you stories and experiences to share.

It is difficult to take a trip to a foreign or new place without returning with stories from the trip. This transforms you into a more interesting person. Interesting people do interesting things and tell others about their experiences. It is difficult to be interesting if you never push your limits or experience new things.