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Right now I should be on top of Ryan Mountain in northern Vermont, but I’m home, working. The trip had been planned for a year and fell through 48 hours before departure.
Open-ended work builds both the ability to travel (savings) and barriers to travel (commitments and responsibilities).
When it comes to the lifetime ratio of trips planned to trips taken, we can’t all bat 1,000. I’d rather have to cancel a few trips than never have planned them at all. Life continues, and a cancelled trip simply sinks the need to travel deeper into my bones.
When was the last time you had to cancel a trip? How did it all work out?
Photo by Joshua Berman via Flickr.
October 13th, 2010 at 1:23 pm
I had to cancel a trip to Chile as it was scheduled just after the earthquake earlier this year. Part of me wanted to move forward with the trip to support the local tourism industry, but my more conservative travel partners prevailed with the worry of aftershocks and further disruption of transportation in that area. I’ll do the trip again in a year or two. I have no regrets about my decision to cancel, but it sure was a bummer. My friends and I had prepaid for all our hotels, tours and transfers, and were able to recover only about 70% of our costs – a pretty big hit on the pocketbook but at least we had peace of mind.
October 13th, 2010 at 11:23 pm
That’s frustrating Brett. Last year I’d worked diligently putting together a trip to ride (on horseback)the Pacific Crest Trail. Then long standing medical issues prevented me from walking much, let alone trekking 2,300 miles through the back country.
October 17th, 2010 at 1:04 pm
October 17, 2010
Dear Sir or Madam:
I had my trip planned out we would visit Brazil industry as an educational experience. I thought I would learn more from what I already new of repairs to the exhaust on my Volkswagen. we took the car to the border and got out expecting the tram to arrive within the nearest subway this would take us deep into the center of Brazil a route that would affect every country named on the South American continent. The subway was complex as it overlapped itself making for some very quick bends and in a few cases we were pulled, as if an elevator, toward the surface of the earth. Our final destination had us comfortably set in a residence that which held the industry as a hero. We lifted our plates and said good job as food arrived through system on subway had been carried. Much of importance had been delivered to continental partners, as business had been growing. Brazil would serve to repair the damage done by travel to every component of transport it had developed. The workers had found themselves a travel that delivered comfortably to the table home and a stable roof where under.
Sincerely,
Well Traveled
November 26th, 2010 at 12:01 pm
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