Always keep an open mind

This week I am going to write about how it is best to be spontaneous and open minded while planning trips and traveling. I am all about planning a basic travel itinerary for a trip, but from past experience things don’t always go as planned. For those of you that live by a set schedule and need to plan out every last detail of your trip, hear me out. Having a set schedule for a trip is so exhausting and often times more work than anything. Last summer a few friends and I were planning a trip to San Diego, LA, Santa Monica, Huntington Beach and a few other places near there. We started planning the trip a few months in advance, and when it started getting closer one of my friends was trying to plan out what we’d do day by day. I didn’t think he was too serious about that so I left it alone. When we were driving down, he was telling us about the schedule and how he wanted to stick to it as best we could. I thought it was a little crazy because we planned to be down for a week so I didn’t think he would have everything planned out already. To my surprise, he did. The first two days of his schedule weren’t so bad because we were driving and got there late, and the second day we spent it at Disneyland. The third day though we had quite a few things on the schedule, and he had set times for them. Which after a while got frustrating, so one of my other friends and I talked to him and convinced him to ease up on the schedule. We just told him to go with the flow of things and let the trip happen. From then on we had a blast, we went to so many different places in SoCal; and met a lot of new people along the way.

This was definitely one of my favorite trips of 2014. 

I agree 100% that you need to have some sort of plan when going on a trip. But keep an open mind!! Unexpected things do happen, like the museum you want to go to is closed that day; the subway is overrun with loads of people because of a flash mob, or you have an unexpected layover in Denver. Make the most out of that trip even if things might not go the way you planned, don't let it ruin the experience. Especially if you’re with good company, like your friends or loved ones things can always be turned around. 

A.S.F