For most people the excitement and pleasure of the vacation begins with the planning and preparation phase. Checking the brochure again for the fiftieth time, discussing romantic sunsets, buying a new swimsuit, and selecting the right moisturizer are all thoroughly enjoyable and certainly phase one of the vacation itself.
The following considerations should help you in planning your vacation, your departure, absence and return. Get them right, and your vacation will be a success, get it wrong and you may regret it.
When you go away you are leaving everything with which you are familiar. The more differences there are between home and your vacation destination, the greater the risk to you. The more unfamiliar the weather, culture, people, laws, insects, animals, traditions and even landscape are, the greater the chance that you will become a victim of some mishap or crime.
Accepting that vacation destinations present unique threats, you should do everything you reasonably can to identify and avoid those threats. Sensible planning and preparation will relieve you of stress while actually on vacation, because you will know that you have done everything you can to stay safe. It doesn’t end there though: while on vacation you have to maintain a level of awareness of your surroundings, so that you can identify and avoid any new threats. Through it all, your first objective has to be to relax and enjoy, while maintaining a level of awareness.
Leaving your home empty for a week or more while you are on vacation or on a business trip is a new threat that you have to overcome. You must make sure that the house is as secure as it can be for the duration of your vacation. Most people forget something when they go on vacation, but not many forget something important like their passport and tickets, or forget to turn off the faucet. If you forget something, it is usually just an annoyance but it can have a greater impact.
As soon as you know you are going away on vacation or a business trip, start to compile a ‘Remember List’. That is, a list of the things you have to do or take. They may not be as vital as your passport or driving license, but forgetting them will be annoying. A few sample entries for your Remember List may be:
• Prescription sunglasses (if you want to read on the beach).
• A videotape of the family Christmas to give to your cousin Doris.
• Your herbal tea, or you won’t be able to get to sleep at night.
You can also add other things to the list, which remind you what not to take. For example, you have to take your house key with you, but do you really need to take the whole bunch that you call your house keys? The bunch includes that big key you never could figure out what door it fits and your old school locker key that you keep for luck! You don’t need to take all of them, so do something about it before you go. What about your hanging baskets and the rest of the garden? Make a note to ask Mr. Biggins to water your plants, weed the garden and cut the lawn. (You will do his when they go away.) Use this list to capture everything that comes to mind and will contribute towards you having a really good vacation or worry-free business trip.
When preparing for the vacation, remember to actually look at, read and check the documents you are collecting. For example, read the vacation insurance to make sure it covers the right dates, etc.
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