Trip Planning

To build a realistic daily vacation itinerary, give each day one anchor activity, add honest travel time between stops, and leave room for meals, rest, and delays. That is the whole trick. Most blown-out itineraries were built as a list of attraction names, so they ignore the boring parts of a day that eat it: … Read more

You cannot make peak season quiet, and anyone who promises that is selling something. What you can do is change your relationship to the crowds: move your trip by three or four days, see the headline sights in the first and last third of the day, keep one famous stop from sitting directly next to … Read more