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"Go on adventure travel often enough and you'll have plenty of useful advice to save people the trouble with cheap flights or vacation packages you once had or to simply make the outdoor trails happier".
I know about my adventure travel friend who came by his tips the hard way. He was blizzard-bound on a winter ascent in Colorado, and neither he nor his climbing partner had anything to read. After they were talked out and slept out, they suffered a substantial boredom attack! The point, which he says he'll never forget: Put a paperback in your backpack. The more challenging the trip, the greater the chance of being stuck in a tent because of bad weather - and the more you need reading materials for adventure travel which may start out with you searching for airline tickets with cheap airfares. Get everything your outfitter says you need to have, and get the great stuff. Alaska-bound Floridians might have a hard time locating polyester long johns, but they'll be glad they did when the icy rain is falling in Kenai Fjords. You might have $10 underwear and a $2,000 trip, but the underwear can make or break that trip.In fact, $10 is a moderate price for expedition-grade polyester undergarments. Can't find what you need? Try a Google Web Search in the box below!
For every guide and every veteran adventurer there's such a gem, maybe a few of them. Talk to enough experienced people and you'll be much better prepared for a peak performance experience on your next trip up the Amazon or into the Yukon. Overseas adventure Travel has strung together a bunch of gems from its in-house staff and guides in a new pocket-size booklet, "101 Tips For Adventure Travelers." "All of us have walked the trails, circled the globe numerous times," says Marybeth Bond, communications director of OAT, which is headquartered in Cambridge, Mass. Bond's personal contribution to the booklet is Tip No. 37: "Slip in some snapshots of your family, house and hometown."
Bond's tip continues: "Imagine the reaction of a Nepalese yak herder upon seeing a Kansas field full of cows," a reminder to readers that people in far-flung places are often as fascinated with us as we are with them. In the shape of a regional airline's schedule, the booklet covers basics, many of which apply to any kind of overseas travel, and provides advice specifically for the remote and exotic. Some of the basics seem a bit too basic. Does anyone who sees "Adventure Travel" in the title need to be told, "Don't panic at the idea of camping" (No. 2)? "Check your passport" (No. 12) could also strike the experienced as too obvious for the expenditure of paper and ink. But the value of the booklet turns out to be greater than the sum of its tips. Its unique contribution is the assembling - in one succinct, logically organized, easy-to-read-and-carry package - of a compendium of practical advice that takes the traveler from zero to challenging adventure travel. Can't find what you need? Try a Google Web Search in the box below!
Even the most trail-hardened international adventurers could find the nuts-and-bolts basic entries in "101 Tips" useful as a checklist. It doesn't hurt to be reminded to get a dental checkup before you take off for remote places (No. 20). But it could hurt to forget. As in real travel, the booklet gets much more interesting when it gets past planning and preparation and goes on the road. Tip No. 70 encourages adventure travelers to get to know the local guides and porters: "Don't let a language barrier stop you. . . . Learn their names. Gesticulate wildly. Make visual jokes. The idea is to break down hierarchical barriers and really get to know these people." -Lets begin planning for adventure travel here /cheap airfares home |