Busy Travelers: Save Time With This One Marvelous Planning Tip

Travel planning takes time. For busy adults and professionals, it may take more time than you have to plan a detailed trip the way you want to. That’s why I recommend always keeping a few travel itineraries ready to go, especially for your top-priority bucket list destinations.

I call these “back pocket itineraries.” They’re not meant to be complete travel plans, but rather a skeleton or an outline, a substantial starting place from which it will be easy to create a full itinerary.

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Why you should make back-pocket itineraries

Do you have a travel bucket list? You know, a list of all the places you really want to go. If you’re a hyper-organized control freak like me, you have one written down in priority order.

Several years ago, we traveled to Paris (#1 on my bucket list then) after I spotted a deal on flights from Atlanta. The only downside was that our travel dates were just a few weeks away. That was not super fun for an anxious traveler like me, but we just couldn’t pass it up.

Fortunately, we had been talking about going to Paris for a while, so I had already bought and read a couple of guidebooks. I had at least a mental list of our top priorities for museums and things, and I had already built an apartment rental wish list on Vrbo.

It made planning the final itinerary so much easier than if I were just going in blind after buying our plane tickets.

>>>I now only teach the full details of this Back Pocket Trip technique as a bonus mini-workshop included with Unstick Your Travel Planning.

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