Whether you love it or hate it, trip planning is an important part of making your vacation great. It can feel overwhelming but it doesn’t have to be! If this is your first trip of your fiftieth, the same steps and ideas can be implemented to ensure you have the best experience.
Many travelers become overwhelmed with all of the information available. Paper lists, digital pinboards, and a dedicated email folder may help organize the information but why not combine all of those ideas into one with an online photo gallery? One way to organize your information is to create three separate web albums and begin compiling information. Let’s use the example of a trip to France and see how web albums can make trip planning easier.
First label three albums with the titles; suggestions, what to eat, and final plan – or something similar to this. Then begin filling the albums.
Suggestions
In this album you will want to put any and all images for things you think you might like to do. If you’re visiting more than one city or region, creating sub-albums can further sort your information. For a trip to France that begins in Paris and will visit Marseille and Bordeaux, you could create an album for each. What sites do you want to see? What museums or historical sites are of interest? Add an image or two of each and include comments on where it is, what the hours are, the cost – really anything that will help you recall why you wanted to visit, at a glance.
What to Eat
If you don’t care much about food, this folder could focus on something else – essentially it’s a single web photo album that includes the very specific details of one genre that’s important to you. If you’re an art lover, this folder could include images of the artwork you’d like to see or architecture. Be very detailed here.
Final Plan
Once you’ve had the time to gather everything you can about what you would possibly like to do it is time to start filtering through the images and information. You may want to draw up a daily plan and sketch out your time. This can help you make more sense of what you actually will have time to do and what might have to wait for next time. You can create sub-albums in this folder that focus on each day. Move over the images to the things you’ll do each day and build your itinerary from there. You can visually see where you have gaps and where you’re overloaded. Don’t forget to add in some images for meals, naps, and other relaxation activities.
When you’re on the road, all you’ll need to do is pull open the online photo galleries and you can view your itinerary in seconds. Rearrange as you go, delete or add in new ideas. No matter how you choose you use your web photo albums during travel, your trip will be organized!
Many travelers become overwhelmed with all of the information available. Paper lists, digital pinboards, and a dedicated email folder may help organize the information but why not combine all of those ideas into one with an online photo gallery? One way to organize your information is to create three separate web albums and begin compiling information. Let’s use the example of a trip to France and see how web albums can make trip planning easier.
First label three albums with the titles; suggestions, what to eat, and final plan – or something similar to this. Then begin filling the albums.
Suggestions
In this album you will want to put any and all images for things you think you might like to do. If you’re visiting more than one city or region, creating sub-albums can further sort your information. For a trip to France that begins in Paris and will visit Marseille and Bordeaux, you could create an album for each. What sites do you want to see? What museums or historical sites are of interest? Add an image or two of each and include comments on where it is, what the hours are, the cost – really anything that will help you recall why you wanted to visit, at a glance.
What to Eat
If you don’t care much about food, this folder could focus on something else – essentially it’s a single web photo album that includes the very specific details of one genre that’s important to you. If you’re an art lover, this folder could include images of the artwork you’d like to see or architecture. Be very detailed here.
Final Plan
Once you’ve had the time to gather everything you can about what you would possibly like to do it is time to start filtering through the images and information. You may want to draw up a daily plan and sketch out your time. This can help you make more sense of what you actually will have time to do and what might have to wait for next time. You can create sub-albums in this folder that focus on each day. Move over the images to the things you’ll do each day and build your itinerary from there. You can visually see where you have gaps and where you’re overloaded. Don’t forget to add in some images for meals, naps, and other relaxation activities.
When you’re on the road, all you’ll need to do is pull open the online photo galleries and you can view your itinerary in seconds. Rearrange as you go, delete or add in new ideas. No matter how you choose you use your web photo albums during travel, your trip will be organized!
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