Hello and welcome to Best Lead Plans.

This is your host, Sarah Hart Unger, and this is a podcast where we talk all things planning

and planning adjacent.

Today we are going to talk about travel.

In some ways, this is inspired because as this episode airs, I'm are going to talk about travel. In some ways, this is inspired because as this episode

airs, I'm actually going to be traveling. One part of travel planning for me, by the way,

is always figuring out how I can make sure all of my podcast episodes, both for best-laid plans

and best of both worlds, are set up before I go, but I recognize that

might not apply to everyone. So hopefully most of the things we're going to talk about on

today's episode are going to be universally applicable planning strategies around travel.

And I've decided to organize this episode by talking about planning for travel on different

time horizons. We're going to begin with long, long range time horizons, kind of more

dreaming than concrete planning. We'll move to mid-range time horizons of the year and the season.

We'll talk about what you'll plan the month before, travel,

the week before, and even maybe some tips about planning while you're actually traveling

the day of. So hopefully you have some really fun trips coming up this summer. I know that I have

one big trip and some little ones and I'm getting a lot of anticipatory mileage

out of all of them. So I hope you are too and that this episode gets you in that happy mindset

thinking about planning travel. All right. So we will go ahead and get started. First, we're going

to zoom way, way out to the long range level.

The way I love to do this is to have a document that I review at least every year, if not more often, that has five-year travel planning.

I keep mine in my Apple Notes system, which is kind of my digital filing cabinet for goals and all types of lists and collections.

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