Travel wrap-up: Post-assessment and budgetingOnce you get home, with all your receipts, bills, photographs (or film, memory cards these days!) in one piece and your dream vacation has come to an end, spend a couple of minutes on a debrief or post-mortem so to speak. If you are jetlagged and just simply have no energy to do so, wait a couple of days. However, do not delay or postpone for too long, because we are creatures of habit and fall right back into life, without sparing a second thought of our trips' aftermath and how lessons learnt, money saved and more, can assist us on our next round of travel. This situation-analysis and post-assessment will be helpful in that the budget-plan now almost takes care of itself and will just need to be adjusted and a new destination , facts and amounts filled in to set you up nicely for the checking off that next dream location or trip you had in mind and listed earlier. In addition to all the money-saving tips embedded, highlighted and given so far, we took the liberty of assembling from various trusted travel sources, both in print and online, 101 tips for traveling on a budget, listed here for your quick reference and use. There might not always be a specific financial benefit or key learning in everyone of them, but the underlying logic and stated fact or examples will be self-explanatory. The added benefit of listing the 100 general tips for traveling on a budget in this manner is that you just choose the ones you need to remember. If all 100 apply and you get value from them, that is great. Choosing a couple specifically because they will have maximum impact for you and enable your trip sooner is even better. Hand selecting the ones you know will stretch your travel dollars and give you the trip of a lifetime our highest goal. Have FUN with the 100 tips! Customize and personalize them, combine, analyze, synergize and review them. Optimize and utilize them to your heart's content, Add your own, keep the list growing and share these, other and your individual insights with others, inspiring them to undertake and join the global quest and go somewhere, anywhere, or just plan and budget, then GO! |