Midpack
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In a few weeks, we’re heading off for 8 days, with nothing booked and no itinerary - that’ll be a first for us and a huge departure from our past. We’ve had vacations as long as two weeks where activities and every meal was planned for every day, and of course hotel(s) were booked.
This time we’ll head for a city 800+ miles away in a state we’ve never been to, and spend at least one day there, more if it’s interesting. Then off to wherever else we want to go, though we have a handful of likely other city/states (more than we’ll have time to visit so we’ll have to make choices). We’ll book hotels as we go, since we don’t know how long we’ll stay or where we’ll go. And we’ll decide what we want to eat or what we want to do by maybe researching online, maybe just listening to local suggestions or maybe just whatever we drive up on that looks interesting. We’re doing a little advance research online, but nothing rigorous. Admittedly smartphones certainly make this approach much easier, it would’ve been harder to manage pre mobile/internet.
Any else made such a radical change in travel MO? And how did it go (he asks with some trepidation)? I’d imagine it’s more common with RVers, but pure guessing on my part.
If we don’t like it, we won’t do it again. Life is short, why not try new things, that’s how I see it anyway...
This time we’ll head for a city 800+ miles away in a state we’ve never been to, and spend at least one day there, more if it’s interesting. Then off to wherever else we want to go, though we have a handful of likely other city/states (more than we’ll have time to visit so we’ll have to make choices). We’ll book hotels as we go, since we don’t know how long we’ll stay or where we’ll go. And we’ll decide what we want to eat or what we want to do by maybe researching online, maybe just listening to local suggestions or maybe just whatever we drive up on that looks interesting. We’re doing a little advance research online, but nothing rigorous. Admittedly smartphones certainly make this approach much easier, it would’ve been harder to manage pre mobile/internet.
Any else made such a radical change in travel MO? And how did it go (he asks with some trepidation)? I’d imagine it’s more common with RVers, but pure guessing on my part.
If we don’t like it, we won’t do it again. Life is short, why not try new things, that’s how I see it anyway...
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