How to Avoid Nightmarish Traveling

   Traveling has become really quite nightmarish experience for some people residing in many parts of the world today. This is more so for the elderly people and those who have to care for elders while traveling and also for those who have kids or handicapped people while going to places. True, planning your tour is the best way to avoid many of the shocking experiences that you come across from the word of mouth and the media. Some of the incidents that at times unfolds before you are rather too awful, but the truth is that these are not quite frequent enough as those that you may experience quite often. The problem remains in spite of the large number of tourists spot in the world and the information available in the websites of any travel office or tourism information center. Those who travel alone or move about as couples have the required flexibility while they go places and may feel quite casually about the usual hurdles of travel, but the matters turns a bit too weary and utterly irritating or disgusting if children, elders or handicapped dependents are involved.

     Below are a few tips to avoid these hurdles, although simple at first glance would surely go a long way in making the whole journey right from the planning stage to the actual trip a lot easier. Here, the usual tips that you often come across have been avoided and only the most relevant and important ones has been taken for group traveling.

•      Finance:  This is the most important part of your traveling as lack of adequate availability of funds as and when emergency occurs or when there is a sudden departure of one or more members of your group as well as any sudden deviation from the planned route or trip. For those of you who are rich enough to afford anything may not be quite interested as long the funds are routed through their credit cards. But for those who belong to the upper middle class and the lower middle classes the importance of finance cannot be underestimated. Coming to the point, for first time group travelers with elders and children try to plan your finance properly well in advance to avoid any future embarrassment or traveling difficulties. In order to overcome this problem try to calculate the individual running expenses not less than three times for every day while on a trip. This means that after ascertaining the daily routine expenses of a person at home town it must be multiplied by three in order to arrive at the routine expenses that is likely to occur during each trip day. It is quite reasonable to assume that a person spends a lot more on trips than he or she is likely to do while at home or office. Therefore, the funds ought to be arranged accordingly. The expenses of hotel or lodging ought to be calculated separately as it is likely to go up and down depending upon the place or places where the visit is planned. For first timers in group it is therefore suggested that they take one of the affordable tour packages offered by airlines and other tour operators as these can lessen the burden of traveling with stress and confusions. But for those who would like to do it all by themselves then the above option should be noted. By adopting to the above option you can be as flexible as possible and when some member of your team is sick or wants to return or be hospitalized then the members of the group can take a decision and not rely on the tour operators who may or may not offer any help.
•     Traveling for Pleasure : Always try to understand that traveling is fun and that everyone in the group including the old and children and the handicapped is briefed about the trip and its shortcomings and certain discipline they would all have to maintain. This would invariably focus on the need to make every individual less fussy and accept even the bare minimum in some places. If certain individual members cannot forgo certain wants or comforts due to their physical or mental disposition then cancel the trip to that particular place at once. Any stubborn attitude by a few individual might place the whole of the group in risk. Also avoid trips to places where there is extremes of temperatures and this may not go well with some of the individuals due to physical limits. Also avoid adventurous travel especially where there are handicapped and old people contrary to what is being preached by certain TV channels or tour operators. Remember, by trying to put up a bold show is okay when you are traveling alone, but in groups and teams you actually jeopardize everyone's pleasure.

•     Eating and Dining: While traveling in groups you are in an advantageous position for you rarely would cut through the rules laid down for eating outside. For most people it is the food from different places that actually ruin their holidays than anything else. Even a bad view of the sunset may have its irritating moments, but nothing compared to the way the whole enthusiasm drops from highs to lows by eating the wrong dish. So how to avoid this pitfalls for people who travel to an entirely strange location? Well, the answer lies in proper selection of food spots. Always at best avoid open food served in open places though for some people this is one of the best way to remain in high spirits. But it can also prove to be catastrophic to group travelers with elders. Hence, look for spots that are clean and have a crowd of people going in and out of the place. This is a sure sign that the food prepared are freshly prepared there and nothing is allowed to be stored for future use, the latter which can have disastrous consequences for the unwary stomach. Again, eat hot, steaming stuff that contain less oil or are well prepared before the customer's own eyes. Further, keep to more vegetarian diets and if need be take a few known non-vegetarian dishes rather than aiming your luck on something of which you have no idea at all. As a prerequisite of visiting a strange place try to take a few of the foods of those areas from your local home town sellers. Above all, never go for cheap foods even if you try to stay at a cheap hotel. Further, take mineral water always and for drinks take tea, coffee, or branded hot stuff. 
•      Take Short Trips: It is for the best interest of the traveling group, whose members include the old and children, to take short trips rather opt for long vacations stretching for more than fifteen days. When very old and very tiny tots are there and so also when there is any handicapped person in the group the whole trip can be extremely painful not only for the individuals, but for the whole group too. Hence, even if the group has opted for a packaged tour then it is best to take one with a few stops only and then return back while the going is good and enjoyable for everyone. Never take things for granted and think that a few extra stops or visits can do nothing for the physique of the less able individuals of the group as there has been no visible signs of any difficulties or complaints from any of them so far during one of these trips or during the first few days of travel. Let it be warned that once the problem surfaces then all hell is let lose on everyone belonging to the group and the whole trip becomes nightmarish. It is therefore advisable to plan a few short hops with a quick return back home to cool things down and let the nerves and bones of the body undertake a quiet and peaceful rest thinking about the wonderful journey you all just had. Here, expenses shouldn't matter and you must have already provided for any eventualities.
• Emergency kits : Take a first aid kit and those emergency medicines which you would need during your travels. And if you have a few phone numbers of doctors residing in and around the area where you intend to travel then it is all the better.

Horrifying Earthlings with potent weapons like Politics

      Our planet is surely a nice place to live in. This would seem to most of us, but not to those extraterrestrials who may reside in one of the more hospitable planets like the earth within our own galaxy. Forget those HOLLYWOOD movies where the extraterrestrials have an extraordinary edge over earthlings. They always seem to probe around in one of those ultra high technology flying airships and have a natural bend to identify all of our failings. But hey wait! this is simply a fantasy and nothing else for even though we are way behind these creatures in technological might, who resemble like some odd ocean fishes to praying mantis or some jungle flying insects, well they are, I assure you, way behind us in the skills of creating confusions, crass politics, nasty canard spreading habits and perhaps eventually our nerve rendering criticisms that would ruin the best of the nerve systems that has build up these extraterrestrials. Truly, we may look easy pickings for these creatures from the far outer spaces, but once they mingle with us they surely are in for some very big surprise and that would eventually prove too costly for them.

       Am I fibbing? No, definitely not. If you were to go through all the newspaper and other media outputs you would seldom even doubt these thoughts for so neck deep are we are in the quagmire of confusions and crass politics these days.

        Look at India and you shall see for yourself how things are keeping fine in these parts. The present ruling government has no idea of what is going on as much as the layman would think. But the sums of loot that is involved are so astronomical that even the layman can never exactly understand or able to fathom it. The loot is in many forms and for the moment let us concentrate on the loot that has kept in the safe lockers of the SWISS BANKS. For an outsider visiting the Indian soil this loot would invariably point out the defects in the system of democracy that is being practiced in India. Even still the government looks the other way as if the whole matter means nothing to it. In fact, the public protests through fasting and demonstrations have hardly had any affect on the government that seems to forget governing the country altogether and rather spend the last of their days in quiet contemplation and amusement. Something like what the erstwhile royal potentates used to do in any of the world's ancient civilization when they give up their power and surrender themselves to their new conquerors.

         Not that the SWISS BANKS are in any way above contempt. They had been running the racket with the help of the SWISS government by acting as security to all the ill gotten wealth of the rest of the world especially those of the third world. But the Swiss gentlemen and gentlewoman walk around the world with pride of possession and superiority that all their standard of living came out of selling SWISS WATCHES and the unique position their country holds in the 'TOURISM MAP OF THE WORLD'. However, ill gotten money is bad money just as the SWISS GOVERNMENT now seems to have realized. Surely, they would as they have already reasoned, sooner or later, would have to play second fiddle to the more dastardly international terrorist organizations who could if given the rein could make the whole of the international finance a muddle in which the rich countries could get buried in. However, the price of follies are borne by all and this especially affects an emerging economy like that of India where there is poverty amidst plenty. The government of India is as much under the shadows for the muck it has created for its citizens as the Swiss Banks would have to answer for all the deviltry it has tried out in the area of unethical finance which by no means is small nor limited to good world citizens. 

        Surely, there ought not to be so much of hesitation on the part of the Indian government when the Swiss authorities have been all too friendly to hand over the list of tax evaders and an equally exasperated government spending no small time in keeping on with their never ending study and research as to who actually have stashed so much money abroad. You can never suppress the doubt that there could be more than a handful of Indian politicians involved in this and who have the potential to make hell once their names are published in the media. This perhaps justifies the delay in making the list go public.

       Just as I was saying the extraterrestrials would undoubtedly scoot off the moment it sees our political scene itself. 

       Now, for some facts from one of the most powerful economies of the world, the US where the Clinton affect is taking place. Hillary Clinton, or as the rumor says has opted for the role of heading the World Bank. One wonders, especially from the other side of this planet whether everything is all right there. Now the fact is out you can never stop wondering whether the White House job is bigger and brighter or that of the World Bank President's. Some people may muse whether Clinton is trying her luck for the very reason that President Obama is well entrenched in his seat for the next election as well with his rating now high above after the shooting down of Bin Laden in Pakistan. Or something else entirely perhaps. It might look as if the American economy isn't actually recovering from the recession and that it has to rely a great deal too much on the emerging economy and the best bet is the World Bank through which it can get some leverage for funding its own home economy and get to control those economies which it thinks are quite belligerent to its dictats. 

      Whatever may be the case we earthlings can give the real jittery feelings and sleepless nights for those wandering ETs if they ever come close to us to establish a relationship. Our petty politics, perfidy and gaming and aiming at one another is perhaps the most awesome sights in the whole of the universe. Who says that we are only a small planet?

     

        

BLOGGING AWAY FEARLESSLY

     Sometimes while blogging away to your heart content you experience a drift in your imagination. This is an excellent sign of that rare creative zeal you have within you. As human beings are of myriad types and given their particular talents, emotions, upbringing, culture and idiosyncrasies every individual has some difference when he or she is compared with others. Thus, it is quite obvious that every individual harbors a plethora of intuitive ideas that can bring forth a great deal of that particular person's persona and expression which in the eyes of others look quite off the mark or are perceived to be quite different from the usual way things are. But as you all know and so does everybody who have had some experience with ideas and especially so for writers, artists, architects, engineers, scientists, businessmen and a host of professionals for whom the sudden idea that lights up in their minds are like one exceptional gift from the universe, should at once be captured in paper. 

       In fact, one of the best way to capture these ephemeral intuitive ideas or figments of imagination is by trimming and polishing them after jotting them in pieces of paper is through BLOGGING ONLY. There is no doubt that the idea that may look too awful during the time of your jotting them down in a piece of paper may find better expression while they are being typed down into the BLOG POST you would obviously look for in the future. In other word, the BLOG POST and the BLOGGING which you do quite often is one piece of evidence that your rotten idea or call it what you may might after you had noted down may turn out to be one of heaven send surprise at some future date. 

        Try to be fearless and that is the best way to do this. Never be HORRIFIED by not trying at least while BLOGGING yourself away. After all some of the world's greatest creations have turned up in the most casual ways and in the least expected places. Therefore, give BLOGGING a try once and then perhaps there is no stopping for you.

         BLOGGER BLOG TO GIVE VENT TO YOUR IMAGINATION.