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Saint Francis in Assisi. Statue and painting.

Travel Idea

Look around your place and imagine the changes you’d make, then find a place that’s already made the changes.

It’s like buying a new guitar. Play the expensive ones, find the right sound, adjust your wallet accordingly.

Go to the place with the changes you want to see. How were they done and how would you make them better.

That doesn’t mean taking a wrecking ball to your travel plans, but do take pictures, that way once you’re back home you can change a few things, like hang a new picture of the place you just traveled to.

Done.

Travel Plans.

The sharp traveler does more than buy a ticket and show up on time, though even that can be a challenge.

Add to the fun by reading about your destination, the people, the places, the food. Maybe cook something regional before you leave just so you know how intricate things can be.

Get online and start looking for travel deals, travel packages, travel advice. You’ll find lots of it. And just so you never forget, your Facebook wall will slowly fill up with travel deals, packages, and advice.

How does Facebook know so much about your plans? Because it’s the all-knowing Facebook. And it’s about more than your face. Login to Facebook and you’re opening the door to so much more.

You can login to travel sites with Facebook, and those sites notice who you are and where you’re going. They follow on Facebook.

The crazy part, which might drive you crazy, is the travel sites on Facebook keep popping up with new prices for the rooms you’ve reserved. New deals. Are they better than your deal? You check to find out. Here’s what you find out:

Hotels and motels change their prices all the time depending on season and day of the week. Maybe according to event.

Online travel sites are committed to earning your business by tormenting you with lower prices after you reserve your rooms. Thanks to Trip Advisor, Trivago, Priceline, Travelocity, Expedia, Kayak, Hotwire, and the rest of the current Top Ten Online Travel sites.

Before you jump for a new base price, add in the taxes and fees. If you compare apples to apples you’ll see apples, not oranges. The $250 dollar room in a renovated historic hotel jumps higher the closer you look.

For people traveling to North Carolina who are tired of hearing their friends ask if they’ll pack a catheter: There’s more to that great state than a bathroom. For one, it’s next to Virginia and Polyface Farms.

From polyfacefarms.com:

Polyface, Inc. is a family owned, multi-generational, pasture-based, beyond organic, local-market farm and informational outreach in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley.

We produce:

• Salad Bar Beef
• Pigaerator Pork
• Pastured Poultry (Eggs, Broilers, Turkeys)
• Forage-Based Rabbits
• Forestry Products

We are in the redemption business: healing the land, healing the food, healing the economy, and healing the culture. Writing, speaking, and farm tours offer various message venues.

Experience the satisfaction of knowing your food and your farmer, building community. We are your clean meat connection.

If you are a vegan this might not be a priority stop, but these farmers do make an extra effort. It sounds like something from a Portlandia episode.

No matter where you go, make the same effort, then up your game. You might find better hotel prices at the source than online. Stare and compare to find out.

More than anything, don’t be afraid. Baby boomers used to wear their wandering boots to where ever they took them. It wasn’t all first class, but they did it with boomer class.

We hear so much about millennials preferring experiences over things? Look around your place. You’ve got more things than you need.

Experience might be the next trip, Jimi. Do something new.