Posts Tagged ‘Relaxation’

Travel Is Not My New Job

May 16th, 2010

Since I started telling more people about my trip this week, I’ve been getting quite a bit of advice about how to make money on the road.

What are you going to do while you travel?”

Is there something wrong with being lazy? Most of us never truly get the opportunity to do absolutely nothing. Sure, we may take a day off to eat chimichangas and watch football, but that’s not what I’m talking about.

Image credit: The Wandering Angel via Flickr under Creative Commons

The concept of a career break is foreign to most people in the corporate world, so in an effort to process what I’m doing, many well-meaning friends are trying to turn the trip into a job for me. » Read more: Travel Is Not My New Job

Dealing With Flight Delays

September 24th, 2009

If Mehran Nasseri could spend 18 years in Terminal 1 of Charles de Gaulle, then you can suck it up and use that 8 hour flight delay to your advantage.

Relax:

  • Catch up on sleep. If you’re on the tail end of a trip, you probably need it. You seem a bit cranky.
  • Get a jump on your reading. All the books, magazines and newspapers you brought to keep busy on the flight are better used now to keep your mind off the shorter vacation you’ll have when you finally get to your tropical paradise. » Read more: Dealing With Flight Delays