Planning A Trip

While spending the last few days planning the free and easy itinerary for our Tokyo trip next week, I could not help but realise from the online forums and internet postings that most people actually do not do very much planning for a trip. Well, I supposed they liked the challenge of going to a completely new place, and not know what to do and see next, huh.

Not me. I'm quite a planning freak. And I do so with the idea that I am not rich enough to go to that very same country or city again in this same lifetime, and so I should make the best use of my few days there.

The first free and easy trip I ever planned for was a holiday to Sydney Australia more than a decade ago. Those were before internet days and so I purchased a travel guide to look through it. And I realised before that holiday that 'planning' ran in the family - my brother was also going along that trip and unknown to me, he had also purchased a travel guide, but not the same one. And so, to our glee, we had two different travel guides of Sydney to explore and plan waaaay before we ever set foot into Sydney. Yup, we had a good trip. It rained every other day, but the wet weather didn't faze us since we had a whole list of things to do and could pick and choose the best ones - like a buffet.

So now, going to Tokyo - a most challenging city. Twelve million people, is it? And we don't speak the language? I've got the buffet i.e. the maps and itineraries ready. Where to eat, where to go, what to do... we will pick and choose.