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.  Are all our fears necessary? Can we give the gift of the "flaneur" experience, the going abroad, or into unfamiliar territory, to see what it is like, to see that we have similarities as well as differences, bridge cultural, and economic gaps.

1.  Travel. Give it. 

Do you have a graduate.  A child in need of a boost. The gift of non-tour travel is a gift of experiences, and independence, but not things. See http://www.accumulatingmoney.com/spend-your-money-on-doing-things-rather-than-owning-things/.

Are things that important to our children's future?

The idea is viral. See http://www.experientia.com/blog/americans-increasingly-elevating-experiences-over-things/  Experiences are of more value to our children, and ourselves, over things.

How to put a value on independence from imposed fear.  Learn for yourself what is worth, and not worth, "fear".  Modes of travel address that.

Give the gift of independence, says Leon Logothetis in the Los Angeles Times.  Enable a child (that one is an adult) to go off somewhere and let what happens happen, see http://www.latimes.com/travel/la-tr-gift-20101219,0,2204867.story/



2. If you merely give "independence," however, think many, you have no Thing to show for it. Life is things. What if we leave our children no "things".  


Nuts.

If you give a child or grandchild something to put on a shelf, or have a financial advisor manage, the child has lost.
  • No "thing". as a gift,  is not "nothing."
How can that be?  How can paving a way, making a thing possible, have value.

Use the sport of Curling is a model.

The team requires some to start the rock in motion, and some other people to help sweep the path ahead.

Can your contribution to a young person, or anyone else, to travel, put you in the position of sweeper -- without which contribution the rock would stop.

See http://www.curlingbasics.com/; or http ://www.curlingrocks.net/ Watch it at http://ww.youtube.com/watch?v=dXeXNHRPMMI

B.  Travel locally.

Don't stop with encouraging others to travel.

Do it for yourself.

Does travel on one's own, and its risks and challenges, produce more integrated information in the brain, as compared to, say a life of shopping and keeping up.

Does more integrated brain information "stay" longer, in times of mental deterioration. See Sizing Up Consciousness as Bits of Information, NYT 9/21/10, Science section, article by Carl Zimmer about Dr. Giulio Tononi's research.

3.  Aging.

Can you assist your own caretaker in advance of the need? By what you do for your own brain and memories now? See http://www.seniorhomecareinformation.com/dementia/best-mind-stimulating-activities-for-those-with-dementia

4.  If travel itself is not feasible, do it in place.

Take a bus or walk for a day in an unfamiliar ethnic area.

Stop. Get out. See a coffee shop. Go in. Don't be foolish, start with a reasonable comfort level, and research what kinds of signals and steps will tend to make you safe, see ://www.livestrong.com/article/14212-don-t-be-a-victim/  Simple steps about your car and being purposeful help empower, convey and bring about relaxed confidence.
  • Go to an ethnic neighborhood.  Independence Thwarts Fox.  Would your world-view change, would you spend so much time listening to Fear and Dump Talk if you actually found you enjoyed yourself more by getting out. 
  • Would our democracy function, if people actually "traveled" to their own inner city or an ethnic enclave wherever; and had lunch there. 
  • Give yourself a task:  paper, three lines, and you are to put on each line what someone there looked like (not necessarily a name) and where they were raised.  That's all.  That's a start in communication. Fox and other fixed worldview purveyors: opiners depend on dependent people.  It would be out of business if their audience went abroad, no tours, no dogma on how to interpret everything, but found they could vet the world themselves.
  • Go to a mosque, a synagogue, any other religious shrine or institutional place of worship. 
  • Independent assessment thwarts legislators projecting causes of problems on others. There is a mosque near you. There will be, we have found, people there to help you feel comfortable, and let you know the customs. If everybody went to one mosque, and one synagogue, and one or more other shrines and talked and asked questions, would negative stereotypes diminish even a little.
  • For companionship, take, perhaps a still child-child, or a differ-abilities adult child.  
  • A person with Down Syndrome, for example, as we do.What abilities are there that just need a sweeper in front.  What would happen to the Fear being spread about so freely these days if people challenged the idea that the world is to be feared. Travel where you are planted.
Fear the world? No. Explore it. Glenn Beck stimulates the amygdala.  Is that proven?  Do you have to take it?

How about that.  See http://www.npr.org/2010/12/17/132141793/living-without-fear

Curling:  An Olympic sport, see

For each one take one (as in a trip to a new place, even close to home), see each one teach one, Frank Laubach, theology perspective, at ://www.dwillard.org/articles/artview.asp?artID=43; and literacy focus at ://www.hermes-press.com/laubach2.htm/

Does living in heightened awareness enhance consciousness?  Travel, Curling, Aging and Actualizing.  Choose Independence over Dependence.  Boost your child. Travel in Place:  Go Local To Start.

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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.

Russia by train, air and bus, for two major cities.

See two sites:

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.

The Latest Europe Road Ways

Road Trip Return:

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.

The Great Travel Focus

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..

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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.

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.
TRIPS INDEX- The Ad Hoc Ersatz Car-Dan Tour Company
TRIPS INDEX- The Ad Hoc Ersatz Car-Dan Tour Company
TOP PHOTO. Kalmar Castle, Sweden.
TOP PHOTO. Kalmar Castle, Sweden.
Visit first, read about it later. Too much advance information is overwhelming.
Chablis France
Chablis France
Chablis France
Dan and Vintner; farmhouse tasting
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.

See also Europe Road Ways on the Web
About Me
About Me
1. Travel, improvised road trips. Two on the Loose: EUROPE ROAD WAYS. How we do it; (click) Europe Road Ways, How We Do It; and Europe Road Ways on the Web. Blogs for countries visited: Andorra Road Ways, Austria Road Ways, Belgium Road Ways, Bosnia Road Ways, China Road Ways (Jon's trip), Croatia Road Ways, Czech Republic Road Ways, Denmark Road Ways, England Road Ways, France Road Ways, Germany Road Ways, Greece Road Ways (Carol and Jon), Hebrides Road Ways, Hungary Road Ways, Ireland Road Ways, Italy Road Ways, Liechtenstein Road Ways, Luxembourg Road Ways, Montenegro Road Ways, Netherlands Road Ways, Norway Road Ways, Orkney Road Ways, Poland Road Ways, Romania Road Ways, Russia Road Ways Moscow, Russia Road Ways St.Petersburg, Scotland Road Ways, Sicily Road Ways, Slovakia, Slovenia Road Ways, Spain Road Ways, including Gibraltar, Sweden Road Ways, Switzerland Road Ways, Trieste Road Ways, Wales Road Ways;
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