Insights on Travel from Costa Rica Expeditions’ Founder Michael Kaye and his Expert Friends.

Archive for January, 2010

Progress Report

Shannon Borrego emailed me to note that the number of comments is going down for each successive post and to ask if she was missing something.
Since her observation is correct, I figured that for this week’s post I should give you a progress report and once again ask for feedback.
First the Progress Report
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Vacation Goals Tolerance, Biking Fall Colors and a Life-Time Memory in The Hudson Valley.

In travel, as in life, tolerance for things going wrong or tolerance for worrying about things going wrong are closely connected with your goals. If things going wrong or things you are worrying about going wrong will sabotage you from achieving your high priority goals you are much more likely to let [...]

Nicholas Kristorf’s Column on Costa Rica in NYTimes.

In last weeks post I promised to tell you about one of Yolanda and my biking vacations to illustrate the role tolerance plays in vacation planning.  Ever since I’ve been nervous about boring you with a personal anecdote.
Then I a saw Nicholas Kristorf’s column in the January 6 New York Times in which he tells [...]

When to travel on your own and when to use professional help to plan and arrange vacations?

In the well over 80 comments we have had so far the question of whether to do your own travel planning and arranging or use professional help is one of the most frequent themes.
This does not come as a surprise.  If the shared belief of the participants in this blog is that Vacation Time is [...]