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Be a Travel Regular
If you ask any food writer or former restaurant worker for advice on dining out I can guarantee that sooner or later you’ll be told to become a regular. Regulars get special treatment. Regulars are committed to a restaurant’s success. Regulars become a part of the family.
When it comes to travel it too pays to be a regular. For those of us blessed (or cursed) with the wanderlust gene it can be near impossible to resist the call of the next, newest place. Cities and countries are boxes we tick off on a long list of to-do’s. It’s less bucket list and more competition; let’s see how many I can get done.
I was one of those people. In a lot of ways I still AM that person. But I’ve learned recently to take a lesson from my day-to-day not-traveling life and apply that to my wanderlust life. I’ve learned that when it comes to travel, it pays to be a regular.
Let’s pretend that you’re taking a weeklong dream vacation to Europe. Accounting for the flights and time difference you have five full days on the ground. You’re flying in and out of Paris and have bought a train pass. In an effort to see as much as possible your itinerary is jam-packed with all the famous sights; you’ve got the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, and Notre Dame all scheduled for the day you arrive. The next morning you hop an early bus to Versailles before rushing back to make your afternoon train to…
