Most people love traveling, interestingly very few people seems to really know how to travel. They book and plan everything in advance, including flight tickets, bus tickets, train tickets, hotel tickets, what they're going to do tightly scheduled so that not even a minute goes to waste and a 30 kilo bag of stuff they won't use anyway . They usually end up stressed, don't enjoy the trip and get angry at each other. That's not how to travel.
I'm not saying that planning is bad. I'm saying that excessive planning is terribly bad. Book your tickets, preferably open ones, and book your hotel, hostel or camping spot, but don't make a to-do plan for your coming trip. That's a big no-no. You could make a wishlist of things you want to do while traveling – but don't feel obliged to stick to it. It's your trip, so do what you want to do, not what you thought you wanted to do.
The best trips are the ones that are open for spontaneous activities, not the ones that are written in stone.
My point is; keep it simple. Like Albert Einstein once said: ”Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.” That applies to traveling too.
Read about my thoughts here about the perfect packing list.
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