There are many free audio tours for museum visits and walking tours at major cities. We suggest looking for options for your next trip. Here are some of our favorites:
Rick Steves – https://www.ricksteves.com/watch-read-listen/audio/audio-tours
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Tip 27: Traveling with Mom
It’s Mother’s Day 2018 so it only seems fitting to write some tips for having a great mother-daughter trip. Mostly we suggest you make sure both of your wishes for the trip are well known before you depart. Perhaps your Mom is hoping for a lot of adventure while you were thinking it was a “rest and relaxation” trip. Or perhaps you are hoping for some alone time to pause and reflect while your Mom wants to soak up every second of togetherness. All are perfect wishes, but it is best to communicate them so you know what would make this trip most awesome together.
At Lead.Travel.Pray. we fully endorse fun family adventures. We have had some awesome trips with our Moms including an Alaska cruise, New York City Christmas windows tour, New Orleans garden district, Germany autobahn, Rome and more. We’d also love to hear your stories and ideas for awesome adventures with Mom.
Rebecca’s family used to take a Mom’s “Mystery Trip”. The idea was for all the girls in the family to take Grandma on a surprise trip out of town where everyone would be patiently waiting to greet her. We all looked forward to these special gatherings.
Here’s some great advice for making the most of a trip with your Mom.
What has been your favorite Mother-Daughter trip? What travel traditions do you have to share?
Tip 26: Power adapters and converters
When you are traveling out of the country, it’s a good idea to research the electrical situation so you don’t blow up your curling iron. Sometimes you will only need a new connection end on the plug and sometimes you’ll need to actually convert the power to a different voltage.
Here’s a great tool for finding out what you’ll need (see the pull-down menu near the top middle of the page): http://www.walkabouttravelgear.com/adapterIndex.html
More good advice here: https://www.smartertravel.com/2017/06/19/electricity-overseas-converters-adapters-beyond/
Tip 25: #Crowdsource tip time! What are your favorite travel shoes?
We’re now a quarter of the way through #100days100traveltips and we’d like your help! What shoes are your favorite to pack for a trip? Whether it be form or function, what do you suggest to fellow travelers? Comment here to share your ideas!
Tip 23: Adjusting to time changes/dealing with jet lag
There is a saying about traveling through time zones that “west is best; east is a beast”, but I’ve found both are difficult and it varies by person. Honestly jumping forward 8 hours (even with super early European arrivals) is easier for me than traveling to the California falling back 3 hours.
We suggest making your arrival plans based on the time changes you’ll experience on the trip. For example, we recently flew overnight from Chicago to Amsterdam. When we arrived in Amsterdam it was 1:00am “body time” but 7:00am local time in Amsterdam. I had pre-arranged an early check-in at our Airbnb so we went there first and took a nap for a couple hours before heading out to sight see. I knew none of our party slept well on overnight flights so we planned accordingly and it all worked out for the best. That short nap helped us feel rested yet also allowed us to be sufficiently tired at the normal bedtime and just like that we were on European time for the rest of the week.
Here’s some more tips and tricks:
https://www.skyscanner.net/news/jetlag-15-tips-beating-timezone-tiredness
http://www.cnn.com/2011/TRAVEL/05/09/snyder.jetlag/index.html
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