There are two ways of travelling. One is the highly planned, pre-scheduled tour where hotel rooms are booked in advance and each meal of the day is pre-planned. Every morning you wake up, you know what you would be doing for the rest of the day –
9:00 Breakfast
9:30 Bus leaves for beach
9:45 Bus reaches beach
10:45 Bus leaves for Entertainment Park and so on
The second way is to wander mindlessly like a nomad. Needless to say, I prefer this to the surgical precision of organized tours, which treat leisure and business travel alike. According to me, travelling is more about spontaneous urges than well thought over, scientific decisions. Its about letting your feet take you wherever they wish to go. The end result is nothing short of an adventure. What use is traveling if it has the monotony and predictability of your daily office life?
Perhaps the best advice I can give to a fellow traveller is the saying by Lao Tszu:
"A good traveller has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving"
1 comment:
Unfortunately, due to the penchant of Indian Railways to book tickets in advance, the adventurous few are often rendered the hungry few, and sometimes even the roofless few... this tends to transform the 'adventure' into a bit of a trial, and the footsore traveller sometimes concludes that there was a reason God did not put one's brains in one's feet.
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