Travel Advice

50 Years of Travel Tips

· Organize your travel around passions instead of destinations.

· Don’t balk at the spendy price of admission for a museum or performance. The value is remembered long after the price is forgotten.

· Take a street food tour.

· Go to a cemetery. Look for sacred places. People live authentically there.

· FlightAware is the best free phone app for the status of your flight.

· Getting an inside tour is the ultimate travel treat. You are aiming for experiences that simple money can’t buy.

· Sketchy travel plans and travel to sketchy places are ok. Take a chance. If things fall apart, your vacation has just turned into an adventure.

· It is far better to spend more time in a few places than a little time in a bunch of places.

· The list of most coveted cities to visit have one striking thing in common—they are pedestrian centric.

· For a truly memorable trip, go without reservations, just winging it along the way.

· You can get an inexpensive and authentic meal near a famous tourist spot simply by walking at least five blocks away from the epicenter.

· Put inexpensive Apple AirTags into your bags, so you can track them when they are out of your sight

· The best souvenirs from a trip are your memories of the trip so find a way to memorialize them; keep a journal, send updates to a friend, take a sketchbook, post some observations, make a photo book.

Obvious Travel Advice

· A place that looks unappealing but has lots of customers is probably good along some dimension (food, atmosphere, price, location).

· Locals might love a place even though much of the food is mediocre because some is really good and they know what to order.

· Buses have much more interesting views than subways.

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