Travel Resolutions for the New Year

Well it is that time of year when people ( not all of us ) make those new years resolutions for all sorts of things.  Maybe it’s for a healthier lifestyle, spending more time with loved ones, change of career etc……..  Without actually making it a resolution I was always ‘all over’ what country I was going to visit in the coming year and my leave was already submitted and approved. 

We make resolutions for everything else. Why not travel?

People always ask me how I get to travel all the time, and my response is I just save.  I have a holiday account that a minimum $50 - $100 a week goes into.  52 weeks a year gives you a nice tidy sum of $5200 for a trip.  Even at $50 a week that’s being saved that’s still $2600 – these days you can get a pretty awesome holiday for that.  Not all my trips are not attached to ‘U beaut’ travel agent deals.

Maybe NOW is the time people, for you to start SAVING money and see some of the world you live in first hand.  It doesn’t always have to be an overseas trip to constitute as a holiday.  Staycation’s is the newest thing on the block ( not MY thing ) but visits in your own city / state / country can be just as rewarding and relaxing as travelling 5 million kilometers to a far away destination.  Something for you to think about.

So your Travel Resolution for 2011.  What will yours be?

• Go on your first cruise.
• Spend a weekend somewhere without internet access
• Drive cross country.
• Finally learn how not to over pack.
• Visit more places where I know people.
• Be in more travel pictures and get out from behind the camera.
• Take at least one guidebook-free and paperless trip.
• Take better notes. I might think I'll always remember the name of that fun-looking restaurant or weird sign I want to translate, but it's easy to forget when you're taking in so many new things.
• A place that you have always wanted to visit since you were a kid
• Catch up with friends made on previous trips from other countries
• Send a post card or write a letter. Texts, emails, and tweets are fine, but nothing beats getting something in the snail mail from an exotic destination and that you were thought of.
• Start a Bucketlist – life is too short.  Get out there and LIVE it
• Find a quest. Climb Ayers Rock.  Swim the Great Barrier Reef . Visit every country that starts with B because that’s what your name starts with. Travel great distances to find petroglyphs or animals.
• Go somewhere new
• Determine 3 Places You’ve Never Been To And Plan A Trip To One
• Keep Better Track Of Where You’ve Been
• Learn a language for your pending trip

Got you thinking…….  Well it should …………….

Google a map of the world and start to think of where you have always wanted to travel to and make it a reality in 2011.  My mum had always wanted to travel to Canada and it was the same response each time ‘next year’… well ‘next year’ never came for her and it is now in her memory that I can achieve my trip that I will be doing it in twenty eleven.

Open a holiday account, set up the automatic transfer from your pay, make an appointment to see your local travel agent and turn that ’dream’ trip of yours into a reality.  Whether it is to see a show in Sydney, sit on a beach in Fiji, play the pokies in Vegas - it is your 'dream' and only YOU can turn it into a reality.

Happy New Year to you all and cheers to new places and faces in 2011…..