Don’t let excuses hold back your travel dreams. Though many Kaleidoscopic Wandering readers are familiar with the travel industry, many others are not. As part of the Why People Don’t Travel series, I’m taking a hard look at five different things that keep people from traveling. In this series, I hope to provide solutions and additional resources for people who would like to travel more.
Today’s travel concern: “I have kids.”
Some people pack a bag and pick up for a weekend getaway. Others plan grandiose around-the-world travels that keep them on the road for weeks or months at a time. Still others take extended boating, biking, hiking or road trips that require dedication, skill, patience and flexibility.
This all sounds great for those who can pick up and go, devote hours on the road or are able to embark on a more adventurous trip. For some reason, though, people with children often find the idea of taking even a “normal” week-long summer vacation quite daunting.
Traveling with kids doesn’t have to be a major ordeal, and, in fact, those who travel frequently with children often say that it is among the most rewarding things they do as a family. The bottom line? Having children doesn’t have to stop you from traveling. In fact, I’ve encountered several families who do so and can’t imagine not traveling with their children.
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Don’t let excuses hold back your travel dreams. Though many Kaleidoscopic Wandering readers are familiar with the travel industry, many others are not. As part of the Why People Don’t Travel series, I’m taking a hard look at five different things that keep people from traveling. In this series, I hope to provide solutions and additional resources for people who would like to travel more.
Today’s travel concern: “I don’t have the money to travel.”
Perhaps you’d like to cuddle with your honey in a romantic destination such as Paris. Or maybe you’d finally like to take your family to the happiest place on Earth to spend a week with Mickey Mouse and the rest of the Disney gang. Or this could be the perfect year to cash in your banked weeks of vacation for a trip through Asia.
At some point in time, we all need a vacation or yearn for a few weeks of unrestrained travel. The problem, of course, is that—regardless of where you want to go or for how long—it’s going to cost money. But that doesn’t mean it’s impossible to get away for a weekend with your significant other or mix and mingle with the seven dwarfs.
In fact, travel can be affordable.
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Don’t let excuses hold back your travel dreams. Though many Kaleidoscopic Wandering readers are familiar with the travel industry, many others are not. As part of the Why People Don’t Travel series, I’m taking a hard look at five different things that keep people from traveling. In this series, I hope to provide solutions and additional resources for people who would like to travel more.
Today’s travel concern: “I don’t like to travel alone.”
Happy couples walk along the beach in the Caribbean. Families with young children line up for the rides at Disney World. Fathers hike the trails in the national parks with their sons. Mothers and daughters step away for spa retreats.
So what about everyone out there who doesn’t have a travel partner? Can you travel solo?
The short answer is absolutely.
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I was recently reading a post over at Travel Writers Exchange about how travel bloggers can inspire travel. In the post, Chris Christensen notes that few people travel like travel bloggers and travel writers do.
Chris also noted some surprising statistics (when viewed from a travel blogger’s standpoint). For example:
- Many people consider a weekend trip to visit grandma to be a vacation.
- Many people just don’t travel, and some don’t even like to travel.
- The majority of people drive when they travel and only slightly over 25% fly.
- Less than 10% have taken a cruise.
- A quarter of people say they haven’t taken a family vacation in at least ten years, if they’ve ever taken one at all.
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