Sunday, October 10, 2010

What next

For a long time now, I've been thinking more and writing less. One thing that I think a lot about, one thing that a major chunk of my time and money is spent on is travelling and tourist-ing places. Planning trips has become a major hobby for me. The US has such diverse landscapes and places, there is so much to do and see, I feel sort of an emptiness if I don't plan and make atleast one trip every month or so. For the past few days I've strongly felt an urge to document all the research that I do and all the work that has gone in to plan some memorable trips. And this space seems to be the ideal forum for me to put down all of that. Even though there is a lot of information available out there, I still felt while planning certain trips that I could not locate the exact to the point details, (such as best time to visit, points/landmarks/things not be missed when visting that place, cheapest accomodations around etc), which could have helped me plan the trip better. In that regard, maybe this information might even help someone else, or maybe even myself if I wish to re-do those places, to plan things better. Rather than putting these details on trip advisor or something, I just thought I'll put them here.

The trips that I plan to document are both, the short one's: 1-day trips that can be/have been made to some wonderful places in and around Seattle, as well as the long one's: 2-day or 3-day trips that can be/have been made to states other than Washington, and hence those that could have been planned and made even if I was NOT staying in Seattle.

Because the number of 1-day trips done in the past year or so is way too overwhelming, I'm going to start writing about the longer trips: Trips done to places outside of Washington. Then, gradually, I would move to documenting the trips made within Washington itself.

Hopefully, this new found hobby would be an urge strong enough for me to visit here on a regular basis and put down things on my mind more frequently.