I love to read trip reports, travel advice , etc. and sometimes someone says something so true and that puts things in such perspective I have to stop and let it soak in.
Recently Suehoff said in her heartbreaking trip report of staggering genius, "So ignorance is not always bliss sometimes it’s just expensive."
Does anybody have any others they can cite? sight? site?

One of many that come to mind is CrazyMina giving advice to someone going on her first trip alone. I thought it was so perfectly to the point and kind and sort of So Mina
And excellent advice~


Quote:<i>This will be the first time that you will exist soley for yourself. You are accountable to no one (well, except for local laws, so don't go too hog wild! </i>

&quot;Whatever <u>can</u> happen, <u>will</u>.&quot; - Murphy (not a Fodorite)

&quot;Don't go to Europe without a Plan B.&quot; - Robespierre's Corollary

Calculate how many clothes and how much money you will need.

Then halve the former and double the latter

You'll get what you pay for and be willing to pay for what you get.

Enjoy the Journey.
Attitude is Everything.
Drink Local Wine.

Spend money to save time.

&quot;See where you are more. Move around less.&quot;

As I near the completion of my report from our whirlwind trip (now already home a week!), it will be clear that I am not bashful about ignoring my own (best) advice, when the circumstances call out to me otherwise!

Best wishes,

Rex

p.s. regarding... &quot;So ignorance is not always bliss sometimes it’s just expensive.&quot;

Beckons with some strong ressemblance to the current Toby Keith hit title (I know... some of you are <i>not</i> fans of country music!)...

&quot;I wish I didn't know now, what I didn't know then&quot;...

Hey Rex, Toby darling stole that line from Bob Seger's &quot;Against the Wind&quot;, shame on him, ha.

...My pearls of wisdom...

I have three:

1) Laugh, laugh, laugh.

2) If you get stuck in the middle seat of the middle section of a DC-10, order a Bloody Mary, it helps.

and

3) Always travel with someone BEFORE you marry them. You can tell alot about a peson when you travel with them.

Happy journey, Tiff

Eat, Drink, and Be Merry,
And bring your own face cloth
and a Large bar of soap.

I jotted this excerpt down on a slip of paper and keep it on my desk, I think I read it here:

&quot;love that is caught at some perfect moment in time and lives eternally in that moment&quot;

fly cheap
sleep cheap
eat well

I learned the hard way....

Buy it when you see it...you won't find a better or a cheaper one. It will be gone when you go back for it...or worse taunt you from the interior of the closed shop the afternoon before you leave.

I still mourn for the one that got away.

Oh... shame on me for that not clicking in my head! The things we forget, huh?

Too many roads traveled...

and it all just...

...&quot;seems like yesterday&quot;...

&quot;Buy it when you see it...you won't find a better or a cheaper one. It will be gone when you go back for it...or worse taunt you from the interior of the closed shop the afternoon before you leave.&quot;

Or, if it's in Venice, you'll never find the shop again.

men plan, God laughs.

men in the we are all human beings sense.

ahotpoet,

Lyrics of a Depression-era song are my favorite 'pearls':

&quot;Life is just a bowl of cherries.
Don't take it serious; it's too mysterious.
You work, you save, you worry so,
But you can't take your dough when you go, go, go.

So keep repeating it's the berries,
The strongest oak must fall,
The sweet things in life, to you were just loaned
So how can you lose what you've never owned?
Life is just a bowl of cherries,
So live and laugh at it all.&quot;

When ever you are thinking about spending on a trip, giving a gift to a friend, helping your children, these words can be inspirational.

A wise person once told me: &quot;If you have enough money and enough time, you are never lost.&quot;

Always remember to pack a smile and your manners.