Traveler's Guide to The Axe.
Reduce the Bulk of the Guidebooks

Guidebooks are heavy.  Too heavy.  Regional travel, going to multiple countries, adds to the carry-on.  Solution:  The Great Chop.  The Axe. And plastic bags with zippers and rubber bands inside..

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Axe, Aigen, near Rohrbach, Austria,  Axe thrown by St. Stephen (not this one) to locate a church site

Step one. Cut up the books.
  • Separate out the countries (as in Scandinavian guidebooks that cover Norway, Sweden and Finland); or, if you are going to Northern Germany and still have the book from going to Southern Germany, slice out the south and leave it home.
  • Find your big serrated kitchen knife and saw those books right down the binding. Make piles. Denmark here, Sweden there, Northern Germany there.
  • Go ahead. Saw-saw. Unnnh. Saw-saw. Unnnh.  Saw-saw.  Unnnh.  Saw-saw = Ahhhh. Your lumbar region will be grateful you did.
If you are in love with the big intact picture-y heavy glossies, just be prepared to carry them.

Step two.  Clip the book remains back together with a big metal office clip and a rubber band. Then bag them.
  • To each country baggie, add the country maps. 
  • If you got an advance ferry reservation (some delays are not worth it), make a copy and put that in there, too. 
  • Have extra baggies so you can jam all the receipts in there also. Throw out no receipts.  None.
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Our purpose in trips includes ongoing education for our son  -- for a fabulously inquisitive, street-smart, Down Syndrome adult who deserves, as anyone, every feasible opportunity to be a rounded, informed person. Public schooling -- he still sees his favorite teachers -- did well, but stopped. Job: he is a fine employee. But there is more to life. There is the brain.  He as anyone needs to see the world. Everyone is out to pick a pocket or two.

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1.   Russia Road Ways. Moscow; and

2.   Russia Road Ways St. Petersburg.

Overview.

Kremlin Regiment, changing of the guard, Moscow

Our years of improvised road trips through much of Europe did not provide enough confidence for me to drive where Cyrillic rules, and without much in the way of English backup.  Dan and I, then, went by small tour -- Moscow and St.

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Pyrenees, Northern Spain, South of France.

Planning changes with the times.

With some fourteen years of road trips with my adult son, we are modifying some earlier how-to's to accommodate 1. Rental car size;  2. Trips technology; 3. Homeland Security assists; 4. Luggage limits; 5. Playing the theft odds.

Figueres, Spain. Salvador Dali Museum. Big car.  Do you really need that for a simple road trip.

1.  Rental car size. Class C for ease.

Getting the Idea Across Fast

With this online, we can translate the basics in a flash, go anywhere, and not reinvent the wheel each time. We are heading off to Barcelona, Pyrenees and South of France.  French I know, enough.  Spanish:  need more help. 

Conversation, getting and giving information, requires fast reference. Language glossaries in guide books are useless for day-to-day use, inconvenient, too too.

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The Flaneur

How and Where the Most Important Experiences Happen. 

Is that so?

Flan, the great key: Flan.

I flan, you flan, he-she-or-it flans,

We flan, you (pl) flan, they flan.

They what?  They flan. FLAN.  They peruse. Saunter. Whenever requirements and schedules loom, quashing the moment, go flan. Enrich thyself.

Say the flan starts, when it begins to rain during a planned route to The Required Cathedral. The Flan says:  Wonderful  What happens next.

Wonderful.

Boost Understanding. Start travel at home.

A.  Travel:  Give travel to Others. 

B.  Do It In Place for Yourself. Give travel to yourself, locally in unfamiliar neighborhoods.

What can you learn by going for coffee in another's neighborhood.

See How.

A. Travel as a Gift

Give to the child, the grandchild, the graduate.  

Give the gift of independence, trying something out.

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Traveler's Guide to The Axe.

Reduce the Bulk of the Guidebooks

Guidebooks are heavy.  Too heavy.  Regional travel, going to multiple countries, adds to the carry-on.  Solution:  The Great Chop.  The Axe. And plastic bags with zippers and rubber bands inside..

.

Axe, Aigen, near Rohrbach, Austria,  Axe thrown by St. Stephen (not this one) to locate a church site

Step one. Cut up the books.

The Value of a Trip with a Child 

Benefits of One Parent, One Child Travel

Consider it in the Entire Budget

Here:  No Western White House saves taxpayers a bundle

How to justify the expense of taking one child on a trip.  Isn't that a bit much?  Not if you think about it, do more than react without careful thought.  Consider the Spain Trip 2010. Sasha and Michelle. One on One, even with Friends. Looking at budgets, pro's and cons, as any family must. Conclusion: Well done.
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Welcome to Europe Road Ways, our own trips. Find a map and a guidebook and go.
Welcome to Europe Road Ways, our own trips. Find a map and a guidebook and go.
We began the easy way: We chose Ireland several years ago, with its similar language and food, its small geographical area comparatively, some family roots, and we had only to cope with driving on the left.

From that, we branched out to see other countries and regions in Europe, each trip some two weeks. We eat and sleep wherever, and have so far found consistently safe and clean places. We cross borders freely (no itinerary). How to find us if we disappear? We carry lots of ID, register at consulates or embassies sometimes, and email home our plans as we make them.

Side benefits: For parent-child travel, the child becomes adult, a full participant in decisions. Whether related to the trips or just Himself, Dan has developed substantial street-smarts, and is a history buff. He is an inquisitive, responsible citizen of a larger world.

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