Posts Tagged ‘planning’
May 13th, 2010
The Final Countdown
Hard to believe that a week from now we’ll be leaving for Madrid. After many, many months of planning I’m very excited for our trip to begin. All of our hotels and transportation have been booked. Books have been read, web sites have been pored over, and travel shows have been watched.
I’m hoping to post frequently during our trip as just about all of our hotels boast of “free WiFi”. I know I say this every time but I really will make an effort to keep this blog up-to-date. So check back often, or, better yet, subscribe to the rss feed.
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Feb 15th, 2010
Spain Itinerary
Well I finally have our itinerary for Spain all worked out. You can see it over there to the right. It involves three flights and a night train, but it works.
Now it’s time to start nailing down things like hotels, and a rental car. Can’t believe it’s only three months away. Time to get excited.
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Jun 26th, 2009
Google City Tours
Google has come out with a seriously cool new tool called Google City Tours.
You enter a starting address (or even just a city) and it finds points of interest and maps out a three day walking tour. You can add and subtract sites, but can’t seem to change from walking to driving directions. Still I think this has great potential.
Now if they could combine this with the custom maps feature in Google Maps we’d really have something here.
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Jun 10th, 2009
Tripit.com
I’m constantly on the look out for new tools to help me organize our travels both before and during a trip. And I’ve posted about my love of the iPhone and the many apps that make it useful on trips (here and here). Not to long ago I came across the site TripIt.com and instantly knew I would be adding it to my arsenal.
It’s great for organizing all the different pieces of information that go into the make-up of a successful trip. And the best part is how much of it is automated. For example: after booking a flight, I forward the email confirmation from the airline to tripit.com and it formats it and adds it to my itinerary. The same with hotels if you are staying at a somewhat major chain (which we rarely do), otherwise you can add reservation information using a template. You can add notes, web site links, articles, events, car rentals maps, directions and more.
They also have a free app for the iPhone so you can access your itinerary on the go. And if you don’t have an iPhone, you can print out your itinerary at home.
So if you are planning a trip, I recommend checking it out.
Update: I meant to say that as much as I love the web site, for viewing your itinerary, the iPhone app is actually better. It’s easier to see where one day stops and the next starts. The web site could do with a little more definition between days.
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Jan 8th, 2008
The Countdown to Mexico
I know posting on this blog has been scarce but it should pick up pretty soon as I start to plan for our trip to Italy in September.
In more immediate plans, we head out for Tulum in just under two weeks. We will be there for 5 days and then will be in Merida for 3. Very much looking forward to this trip and will post photos when we get back.
In Merida we will be staying at the charming looking Luz en Yucatan, we’ll see if it lives up to it’s web site. I will let you know that as well.
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