{"id":3145,"date":"2026-03-13T20:30:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T00:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcexplorers.com\/?p=3145"},"modified":"2026-03-13T20:30:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T00:30:47","slug":"x-is-for-what-excites-you-about-your-trip-pre-travel-planning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcexplorers.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/13\/x-is-for-what-excites-you-about-your-trip-pre-travel-planning\/","title":{"rendered":"“X” is for What EXcites You About Your Trip? (Pre-travel planning)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Our trip is drawing very near and we are down to just a few days before we leave.\u00a0\u00a0 I am so excited to experience all the new countries and cultures.\u00a0\u00a0 I am not sure if I can define what one thing excites me the most.\u00a0 Each city\/country will offer us something unique.\u00a0 We have planned our activities with a nice mixture of scenery and city tours so I am hoping we will also enjoy a nice pace.<\/p>\n

Architecture always excites me and we are about to be bombarded with that.\u00a0 I am also excited to spend time in Singapore and Tokyo before and after the cruise.\u00a0 There is a unique distinction about being a tourist verses being a traveler.\u00a0 The ability to navigate the transportation systems and communicate in a foreign language are protected and predictable when you are on tours.\u00a0 To be a traveler, one must merge with the society you are visiting.<\/p>\n

I am also excited for the learning which will go on, on the cruise.\u00a0 There is a photographer on board who is teaching classes, using our cell phones instead of a camera.\u00a0 It seems like a small thing, but this excites me greatly to learn to trust that I don\u2019t need to lug around my heavy SLR camera around.\u00a0 This is the first trip I am leaving it at home. \u00a0There is also a historian on board who is lecturing on each of the countries we are visiting.\u00a0 We can never have too much knowledge!<\/p>\n

Finally, I am excited to be spending so free much time with Alan.\u00a0 Getting away from the mundane jobs of cooking and cleaning always renews our energy.\u00a0 As our granddaughter would say\u2026just three more sleeps!\u00a0 That is unless we manage to move our flight to Chicago forward by a day.\u00a0 We are currently punting to try to make our challenges as simple as possible.\u00a0\u00a0 We are expecting a massive snow storm in our area Sunday into Monday.\u00a0 Since it will be measured in feet not inches, we are hoping to get out of here before it hits!\u00a0 If not, this may be the most exciting part of our journey!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our trip is drawing very near and we are down to just a few days before we leave.\u00a0\u00a0 I am so excited to experience all the new countries and cultures.\u00a0\u00a0 I am not sure if I can define what one thing excites me the most.\u00a0 Each city\/country will offer us something unique.\u00a0 We have planned […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,18,20],"tags":[101,225],"class_list":["post-3145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures","category-world-adventures","category-asia","category-blog","tag-activites","tag-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcexplorers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcexplorers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcexplorers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcexplorers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcexplorers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcexplorers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3147,"href":"https:\/\/abcexplorers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3145\/revisions\/3147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcexplorers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcexplorers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcexplorers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}