Quite honestly I didn't think it would take this long to plan our trip. I mean how hard could it be to just put down everything in my head onto paper in a coherent, cohesive form? Apparently, quite hard. We have spent at least 3 weeks planning and there seems to be a very definite process to the whole thing.
It seems the very first thing you do is plan any tours and flights. Forget accommodation or insurance or any other stuff you'll have to worry about. That will all come later.
I like to think about it like drawing or painting (because the more I plan this trip, the more I feel it is like creating a work of art). Lets work with the metaphoric example of drawing a landscape.
So first of all you need a basic structure to your drawing, an outline (the flights). The outline shows you how everything connects in the drawing, just like flights connect destinations. You might fiddle around with this outline a bit, the shape of the hills might be a bit too large (staying too long in a place) or there might be tree that has to go (Nepal *sob*) because it might ruin the drawing as a whole. Sometimes a new sheet of paper may be needed(thank goodness we didn't need that!).
Once you have this basic outline, then comes filling in the background colours - the stuff that gives the drawing depth and dimension, (tours). Again this might change some of the outline structure as you might want more of a certain colour on the drawing than you originally planned.
Then I guess all the picture detail will be like our visas and accommodation and the final adjustments like highligts and lowlights correspond packing and vaccinations.
Wow still a lot to do!
It seems the very first thing you do is plan any tours and flights. Forget accommodation or insurance or any other stuff you'll have to worry about. That will all come later.
I like to think about it like drawing or painting (because the more I plan this trip, the more I feel it is like creating a work of art). Lets work with the metaphoric example of drawing a landscape.
So first of all you need a basic structure to your drawing, an outline (the flights). The outline shows you how everything connects in the drawing, just like flights connect destinations. You might fiddle around with this outline a bit, the shape of the hills might be a bit too large (staying too long in a place) or there might be tree that has to go (Nepal *sob*) because it might ruin the drawing as a whole. Sometimes a new sheet of paper may be needed(thank goodness we didn't need that!).
Once you have this basic outline, then comes filling in the background colours - the stuff that gives the drawing depth and dimension, (tours). Again this might change some of the outline structure as you might want more of a certain colour on the drawing than you originally planned.
Then I guess all the picture detail will be like our visas and accommodation and the final adjustments like highligts and lowlights correspond packing and vaccinations.
Wow still a lot to do!
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