Great strides are being made with regards to a return to travel with vaccinations beginning this week for ages 5 and up! With Thanksgiving just three weeks away, Hanukkah beginning a few days later and Christmas Eve in just over 7 weeks, all thoughts are on the festive season. What better time to think about giving the gift of travel?
Many people are still working from home and spent a good bit of their time grounded cleaning out the clutter in their homes. The holiday season is not the time to re-introduce more clutter! Imagine the stories you will share in the years to come of the time you gave the whole family airline tickets to visit your ancestral homeland? What if instead of giving Grandma another pair of slippers and a new robe again you go in with your other family members and plan a weekend away as a family? There comes a time in every family where you seem to be exchanging the same gift cards year after year. Maybe it’s time to pool that and hit the slopes instead?
Focusing on experiences rather than “stuff” will provide a lifetime of memories and given the predictions about the delays in the supply chain they certainly can be less stressful than watching your shipping date slide further and further away, as long as you plan correctly.
Of course, I know there are some who completed their Holiday shopping while the rest of us were still enjoying summer vacation. I applaud you, and while you sit back and enjoy this year’s festivities with your loved ones maybe it’s time to think about a future trip to make up for the time we spent grounded in 2020 and 2021.