Hi! C senior here. Most of you have heard about the movie What About Bob?, starring Bill Murray and Richard Dreyfuss. If you haven't, it is the story of how a fame seeking psychiatrist is eventually driven mad by the good intentions of one of his patients, Bob. In some ways, C junior and I feel the paranoia of costs, the claustrophobia of details, and the paralysis of what ifs brought on by this trip. But, like Bob, we need to remind ourselves to just baby step through the process."Baby step to the elevator...I'm in the elevator...AHHHHH!!!" - Bob, What About Bob?
So, here are some of our planning "baby steps" (...we'll let you know if they actually work when we get there):
- Get a good guidebook. We decided to use Rick Steves's Ireland and Great Britain.
- Create a budget. This is very important so that you can estimate your expected costs and also make room for the unexpected.
- We had transportation, housing, food, and entertainment as our categories.
- It was also helpful to have two versions of your budget: general estimates and detailed estimates.
- Get started early. Planning should take a long time. Embrace it. The freedom you will experience is worth all the blood, sweat and tears you put into this process.
At the end of it all, I hope we can yell as joyfully as Bob, "I'm sailing! I'm sailing! I'm sailing! I sail! I'm a sailor! I sail!"
...or in our case, "We're traveling! We're exploring! We're adventuring! We travel! We're travelers! We travel!" :)
-C&C
Edit: Here is an excellent travel blog I came across that also discusses travel tips and itineraries: http://stephaniefleischer.blogspot.com/
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