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Keep Your Feet Happy

- Never travel anywhere with brand new shoes. Always break them in first, and be sure to go for a long walk in your travel footwear to make sure that it will not cause blisters or hot spots.
George Price ID2178

Keeping a Travel Journal?

- It's a fact: Invitations to read personal travel journals trigger obligatory sighs. If you like to write up your adventures on the road, do your family and friends (and yourself) a wonderful favor by practicing good technique:

In your first few paragraphs, create a scene that the reader will find compelling.
Immediately focus the reader on a character.
Then create a problem or conflict. Something should not go as expected. It can be large or small in scale, or even inside the character's mind. It is the resolution of this challenge that keeps people reading.
Vary your sentence patterns.
Get rid of 'passive voice (all conjugations of the 'to be' verb).
Create several sentences that do not start with a noun.
Add skillful metaphors and similes.
Wake them up with shock value.
Add humor.
Place the emphatic, comic, or dramatic words at the END of the sentence.
GET RID OF unnecessary words! Cut, cut, cut! This does not mean make your travel memoir short, but it means make every word work hard.
Study examples of good technique - and practice.

Special Reports: How to Write Your Travel Memoirs ID1249

Keeping the Currency Straight

- Keeping track of currency, expecailly coins, when visiting several countries can be a problem. To help, I always place coins from the previous country visited in an envelope when leaving so as to not mix them with coins from the next country. When arriving in the new country, I try to obtain coins of different denominations so that I can study them and learn the difference. Then before I set out, I count how much money I have in coins - so that if I buy a less expensive item I will know if I have enough coins to pay, or for more expensive items if coins can be combined with notes to pay. This helps speed up the transaction, plus helps prevent accumulating large amounts of coins. Also, I always try to have a few smaller notes to pay for the less expensive items. A vendor really doesn't want to get a $100 note to for a $1 item.
David Wolfersberger ID331

Language Problem?

- When you arrive in a country where nobody speaks English, you can ask for what you need at the reception desk of a large hotel.
dara ID386

Learn the Lingo before you Leave

- When you travel abroad, make sure that you know the foreign language equivalents for important words like 'hospital', 'doctor', and 'police'. The combination of key words, sign language, and pointing can be invaluable in emergencies.
B. Rizzo ID2049

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