I’m not really a big fan of New Year’s resolutions but this year I thought I had a good one. After being burned a couple of times for making plans way in advance, first on a course in Thailand and next on a flight to Buenos Aires, I decided that, in 2009, I wouldn’t plan a thing in advance and would just go wherever I felt like going.
That lasted about 2 weeks before I decided that I wanted to go to Australia for a wedding on February 28th. I now have in my possession a flight reservation and a large chunk is missing from my savings. Spending the money to go will be totally worth it because of the people I’ll get to see while I’m there but making the plans a month in advance really makes me nervous.
I still plan not to plan once I get back to Miami on March 9th. There are a few ideas in the works including riding donkeys around El Salvador with a friend, hopping on a yacht around the Caribbean, heading to the States to work on a fundraising idea for Hands On, or just seeing what falls into my lap when the time comes.
I think it’s in my nature to always think a step ahead and to look for interesting things to get up to… I just need to learn how to think about these things without deciding straight away that I want to do something and locking it in several months in advance. This type of travel totally works for me, but I really want to try out the whole wandering around with nothing planned whatsoever to see how I like that.
I’m looking forward to giving it a try but will have to wait a little longer than expected now. How do you guys prefer to travel? Do any of you just go where you feel like going without any advance planning and just see where you end up?
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