Travel Without an Itinerary
It can be scary but there isn’t really a downside.
Travel is all about the stories you tell years later. Interesting stories come from emotions. Emotions come from the highs and lows of experience.
Planning a tight travel itinerary tries to take out the lows and keep the highs. Usually, it pares down both and robs you of your best stories.
Just wing it. Whatever you lose, you will regain 10 fold.
6 Top Aspects of Itinerary Free Travel
Flexibility.
Meet a super cool couple going tomorrow to the museum you went to today? Go again! It will be different with your new friends. Why miss out spending time with people you connect with just to say you stuck to the plan.
Realize you are on a tourist trail with a group of irritating people? No problem, take a right turn, and see what is behind door number two.
It was early 1990. I was planning on going to Munich but the Berlin Wall had just fallen. Most of eastern Europe had been very difficult to travel to for decades. Suddenly backpackers could get a tourist visa at the Czech and Hungarian borders. The trick was you had to take the train, get kicked off, walk several kilometers to the land border, get a visa at…
