Investigating the problem in more detail I came up with several principles supporting happy traveling. As a matter of fact those can surely be applied also in other spheres of life depending on the final goal. But let's concentrate on traveling since I don't want to ruin your career plans by advising you in total optimism. Actually total optimism wouldn't help you traveling, too. What would though are a proper trip preparation, an adequate attitude and a set of rules of thumb depending on where you travel. Yes, it sounds easy and it is, and for this reason I will dedicate some of my time in the next months to extracting the greatest common factor for all different types of traveling. Because I wish that people would travel happier.
In my research I will involve the outcomings of different psychological studies and scientific papers. I have also prepared a survey to support my thesis. Week for week I will publish the results in separate posts and will be looking for your comments. My goal is to color your memories, cause every journey is worth its time. Take your time for positive thinking, cause life is too short to rely on destiny to bring one happiness.
Monday, July 19, 2010
Friday, July 16, 2010
Why this blog?
Lately, I was appointed a listening ear to a long travel story of one of my friends, about how her honey moon turned into a disaster, leaving everyone involved permanently frustrated and with a negative impact on their willingness to travel abroad (again) in the next future. Somewhere between the crappy buffet food and the lazy hotel personnel, I asked myself a question: Why are there so many unhappy travelers around? Is it really missing luck or bad service, every time!?
Me and my husband travel quite a lot to many different destinations, and journey types as well. We are good to go on a sailing trip, a cultural excursion, or a mountain bike tour. We have stayed in self-service ski chalets, best luxury hotels, campings, all-inclusive resorts, cottages, tents, very old sailing yachts and many more. Of course, sometimes there have been terrible surprises, suspicious food, and people, but we have always traveled happily anyway.
To reveal the mystery of happy traveling, I invite you to discuss with me its principles. What are the small rules that can save families from divorce (indeed 50% of separations take place after a common travel trip), rescue the value for money, give meaning to the CO2 wastage, and simply turn us into happy travelers?
Me and my husband travel quite a lot to many different destinations, and journey types as well. We are good to go on a sailing trip, a cultural excursion, or a mountain bike tour. We have stayed in self-service ski chalets, best luxury hotels, campings, all-inclusive resorts, cottages, tents, very old sailing yachts and many more. Of course, sometimes there have been terrible surprises, suspicious food, and people, but we have always traveled happily anyway.
To reveal the mystery of happy traveling, I invite you to discuss with me its principles. What are the small rules that can save families from divorce (indeed 50% of separations take place after a common travel trip), rescue the value for money, give meaning to the CO2 wastage, and simply turn us into happy travelers?
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