As you may have already read, I’m used to planning things my entire life. Planning my meals, my outfits, my vacations, my future, all in neat little charts, graphs, spreadsheet, etc. But recently my travel habits have changed and I now have the options of spontaneity and instantaneity. From both personal experience and word of …
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The Art of the Inspiration Board
The inspiration board, (also known as a vision board, mood board, travel board, a basic girl’s hopes and dreams on a wall, etc.) is probably the single most effective motivator in my life. I’m a visual person. I make lists, draw diagrams, stare at maps, etc. So naturally, having a bunch of pictures on a …
A Broke Girl’s Guide to Saving Money for Travel
We all have those friends that are always traveling, making us jealous with their Instagrams and you just think, “how can they possibly keep affording these trips?!” For the longest time I thought the same thing. Then one day I just decided to be that person. I grabbed a pen and paper, opened my mobile …
The Correct “Plan : Wing It” Ratio
As a serial planner by nature, I write this more as a story of conversion than anything. Let me start by saying there is NOTHING wrong with planning your trip. It’s great to have focus, a pool of sights to see, knowledge of transportation and lay of the land, etc. But a schedule with time …