Get Ready to Travel. Your Vacation of a Lifetime
Travel Advice for the New Traveler

     If you have never traveled, you are shorting yourself of a God given pleasure that you are entitled to during our short stay on earth. More, like the man that never took time to read a book, or study math beyond the number ten, the world you think you are living in doesn't exist, for there is much more out there than you can divine by keeping your universe local.
     Almost anyone, at some point in their lives can travel. If you're daddy doesn't own the plant, or you don't have a government job, you can still save your pennies, dimes, and nickels by putting them into a traveling fund...not to be touched, except for dire emergency. Even if your situation is up and down, as it seems to be with many of us in our modern times...sometimes you are up, and you can increase your traveling fund greatly during the good times. This is a sound strategy for eventually expanding your world.
     The kind of traveling I'm talking about does not mean the kind you do from home to the beach once a year. A 2000 mile road trip...now there is traveling. You would be surprised what you didn't know about what two states over looks like. Actually, many may be surprised about what two towns over looks like. Forever staying on the same familiar pavement may be comforting, but you don't have it to do. Even the poorest of us have friends with cars. Perhaps a visit to the nearest mountains or rivers would be an eye opener for some. Well enough for the total local piker, but I'm urging more.

     Before you save a penny, you should have a destination in mind. How about a road trip from Alabama to Colorado, or Colorado to Florida? You could fly it in a couple of hours, but the real fun and learning would be to see it from the ground, where there is adventure around every curve. Your plans might include researching rental cars and what you want to do along the way and when you get to your destination. Since you're keeping it in the USA, you don't have to worry too much about language or local customs. (Though, depending, you may just be in for an education.)
     As fun as a car cruise in America is, why not stretch right on out and plan big. Make plans to visit another country.
     My first foreign visit was to Mobile, Alabama where I first tasted ocean water, got my first jellyfish sting, and saw a Popeye the sailor kind of person with a peg leg eating a bowl of lunch chili at a seedy restaurant right out of a film noir movie. Looking back, it's all black and white now. Memories.
     My second out of country experience was a visit to Brazil. I fell madly in love with the place, as all visitors do, and went so far as to run a Brazil travel agency for awhile. It was thus that I learned the rest of the story about how to correctly plan for a Vacation of a Lifetime.
     The first thing to do is to choose a destination. It mustn't be a half-hearted destination. It must be the travel destination of your dreams, of your very soul.
     The second thing to do is to start your travel fund. You will be amazed how quickly the money grows when you have a destination and a goal in mind.
     The third thing to do, as the time draws nigh, is to negotiate your trip. Even the man whose daddy owns the plant can benefit by on the ground intelligence beyond what he can learn in the library and internet.
     It used to be that your choice of travel purveyor was whatever travel agencies were in town or within driving distance. If your agent was good, and had been to your destination, so much the better. If the agent was just good, they still had the resources to set up your trip for you, as long as you pretty much accepted what they were offering.
     Nowadays, things are sooooo vastly much better and different. You can collaborate with the actual people who will greet you when you arrive at your foreign location, if that is your desire. This is the way half the moneyed seasoned travelers do it. The other half proceed with what I am about to impart to you. They let the folks who know take care of the details. Yes, it sounds a lot like going to your local travel agent, but this is not so. What you do is go to Tripology. Depending on what you tell them, they will select the best 3 travel specialists out of a pool of (at this writing, 12,000) to help you with the arrangements.
     Basically, you send all three to a room with no windows or lights, armed only with their computer terminals, and lock the door. You may hear shoutings and clangings, and see a seepage of blood from beneath the door jamb from time to time. Ignore this. After awhile you will hear a knock. The travel specialist that emerges alive will be the one you use.
     Actually, in complete truth, they will fight to be the one you choose to make the arrangements for your trip. However, they will do it with information and pricing.

You could spend the rest of the year researching, and you wouldn't come up with a faster, cleaner, nicer travel solution than that offered by Tripology. Your only problem will be to select which specialist or specialists you want to use, after they get through knocking themselves out to help you.
     How much does this cost, you ask? Well, nothing. Unless and until you purchase services, all that "wanting to help" business is 100% free. It's like having an unpaid staff whose only desire is to help you succeed with your travel plans.
    
Let me lay out a scenario for you...

• You have chosen a travel destination.
  You know where you want to go and have begun your travel fund.

• You contact Tripology and get hooked up with the expert travel specialists.
  Now you know a great many details, and you also have your money goal too.
   
• You reach your money goal and you know when you can go on your Vacation of a Lifetime.
  You contact your favorite travel specialist(s) again, or go back to Tripology and get 3 more.

     There are a few things I can tell you up front to help you understand the process of getting ready for travel. Assuming you are planning a trip to another country, most likely you will need a passport. This you will get from the government here.
     Then, closer to departure time, for most countries, you will need to get a visa. You get those from their government located in a consulate or embassy here. Don't worry, it has been successfully done before by others. You can do it too.
     Where the power of your chosen travel specialist comes to play is that they will set you up with the folks at your destination who will make it all happen. When your plane lands, someone from the "local receptive" will meet you at the airport and transport you to your hotel. Then, later your tour guide will work your travel plan with you. You will be petted and pampered, and thoroughly never want to go home. This is where your relationship with your chosen travel expert really pays off. It gives you your Vacation of a Lifetime with a minimum of muss and fuss.
     Personally, I have had my Vacation of a Lifetime. So, I can heartily recommend that you have yours too. Then, later, maybe, you will write an article or two and urge others to have theirs.
     Below, you can see some of my travel stuff. It's all mine. I like talking travel. You will too.

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Sometimes being there is more fun than being here. Start saving your butter and egg money today for your Vacation of a Lifetime!