What can you do to get ready for travel?

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Sooner or later. we will be allowed to travel the world freely again.

Will you be ready?

You may want to yell back, "Of course, you moron!  I was ready for every one of those vacations and family gatherings that had to be cancelled during this past miserable year!"

Consider this.  While the past year unfolded considerably differently than my preferences, it turned out to be another great year for me.  I'm not the only person who feels that way.

We can't always control the conditions of our lives, but we can control our attitudes.

You've heard that dark clouds have silver linings.  If you look at the right time, you may find not just silver linings but truly spectacular skies with gorgeous, unexpected hues.  As a general rule, if you've missed these entirely, check out early mornings and evenings, when the sun rising and setting often puts on spectacular shows.

If you've been so busy staring at TV or computer screens waiting for someone to give you permission to live, love and enjoy life, wake up and smell the coffee.

Unless you mentally embrace your freedom, inertia will have you continuing to wait for permission to enjoy life long after you have your complete freedoms restored.

A powerful elephant tied by a flimsy rope to a sapling tree will wait passively for his owner to untie him rather than simply walk away, breaking the rope or uprooting the plant.  He has been conditioned since he was a baby to believe that rope limits his mobility.

Don't be that elephant.

A terrible side effect of waiting for the go signal can be a sendentary life, one where you move too little and eat too much, which for most of us will diminish our health.

Turn off the news and instead take a walk at sunrise or sunset.  Or perhaps sip coffee looking at the sunrise and wine as the sun sets, simply taking in the views, getting your exercise in between.

Whatever works for you.

If you want to be ready to make the most of travel when the time comes, work on your physical and mental well-being now.

A proven way to increase your excitement and optimism about life is to plan a vacation.  Having a dream trip booked immediately lifts your spirits.

With a refundable deposit, you can lock in that cruise you wish you could have taken last year.

The Royal Caribbean family which includes Azamara, Celebrity and Silversea, has one of the best Cruise With Confidence programs of all, allowing you to cancel up to 48 hours before travel begins and receive future cruise credit.  If the cruise line cancels, guests have been given their choice of refund to the original form of payment, future cruise credit of 125% or "Lift & Shift" to a similar cruise a year later.

So, stay strong, both mentally and physically.  Contact Wes@CruisePlanners1.com to get a vacation on the books. And then there's just one more thing you can do.

When the vaccine becomes available, then if you want to be able to travel, you should graciously accept it as an inevitablility.  The fact is that most likely a vaccine will be required for travel, whether as a direct prerequisite like having a photo ID card or indirectly by demanding a negative Covid-19 test before boarding flights.

Obviously, if you have had the vaccine, you will find the risk of passing the Covid test for travel like taking a spelling test back in sixth grade after spending a week studying those ten easy words assigned by the teacher.

And if you are afraid of the vaccine?

Well, that's your choice.

You can still appreciate the skies around your home. 

Wes