Planning for New Zealand
Mar. 24th, 2024 10:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerWe're going to New Zealand! That's so exciting. We booked our flights to/from Auckland, NZ three weeks ago. And then we... did nothing... for two weeks. 😨
The obvious problem here (I hope it's obvious) is that a two-week trip to a foreign country takes more planning— way more planning— than just booking the flights in & out two weeks apart. It takes researching things to do and places to go. It takes booking 14 nights of hotels, plus cars, ferries, and domestic flights to get around the country.
We kind of suck at planning. ...I mean, we suck at buckling down to actually do the planning. Once we actually make plans they're generally pretty awesome plans. We've always had great trips, whether shorter or longer. But we've got to stop procrastinating.
Two weeks after booking the basic flights in/out we did start making additional plans. That was a week ago. We converged on the shape of a plan for travel within NZ. We booked two domestic flights as part of that, plus a rental car for 1 of the two weeks, plus a few nights of hotels. Then this past week we booked out another several nights of hotels. But we're not done yet.
We're making today our "Get It Done" day. I've started a Google doc to track all of our plans and booking details. That way Hawk and I can keep the details centralized while each of us making some of the bookings. Plus once we're in NZ both of us will have all the details in case one of us is sick or asleep or can't take the lead for whatever reason. Okay, so the Google doc is created, and I've filled in the stuff we've booked so far... but we still have a lot more bookings to make.
The obvious problem here (I hope it's obvious) is that a two-week trip to a foreign country takes more planning— way more planning— than just booking the flights in & out two weeks apart. It takes researching things to do and places to go. It takes booking 14 nights of hotels, plus cars, ferries, and domestic flights to get around the country.
We kind of suck at planning. ...I mean, we suck at buckling down to actually do the planning. Once we actually make plans they're generally pretty awesome plans. We've always had great trips, whether shorter or longer. But we've got to stop procrastinating.
Two weeks after booking the basic flights in/out we did start making additional plans. That was a week ago. We converged on the shape of a plan for travel within NZ. We booked two domestic flights as part of that, plus a rental car for 1 of the two weeks, plus a few nights of hotels. Then this past week we booked out another several nights of hotels. But we're not done yet.
We're making today our "Get It Done" day. I've started a Google doc to track all of our plans and booking details. That way Hawk and I can keep the details centralized while each of us making some of the bookings. Plus once we're in NZ both of us will have all the details in case one of us is sick or asleep or can't take the lead for whatever reason. Okay, so the Google doc is created, and I've filled in the stuff we've booked so far... but we still have a lot more bookings to make.
