Travelers and Visitors

I'm so tired of people who have no idea of how to travel or how to accommodate visitors. Take for instance someone who is making a trip or a vacation, wouldn't you want to be thoroughly organized? When you plan a trip, you make sure that you have everything in order. You make sure your bills are paid, your pets are taken care of, your transportation and trip funds are set, and your accommodations are in order. If someone is coming over to take care of your home, you make sure that person is able to do so at their convenience. Schedules should be made accordingly, which includes your trip itinerary and your home schedules for housesitters or petsitters This makes your vacation carefree and easy on not only you and whomever your traveling with, but those who may be helping you back home. Here is a great link to help with travel tips by Rick Steves.

If you have someone traveling to stay for a visit at your home, you should have the home well prepared and make sure that their accommodations are well set up within in your home before their arrival or at least make sure that they are well settled in their hotel. Make sure the house is orderly and make sure that you have grocery shopped or at least planned ahead with shopping at convenient moments. I mean being on a flight is bad enough, why make guest's stay even more complicated when they arrive. Unfortunately, many people haven't any idea of how to make this work. Now I realize that some people cannot manage this task alone, but many able bodied people can at least make an effort. Why make a headache for yourself and perhaps other people around you when you can take preventative measures to make sure everything goes off smoothly. Here is a great link to help with entertaining house guests from About.com.