• OhmsLawn@lemmy.world
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    1 年前

    I’ve never done that, exactly, but I’ve done several trips of that length around Europe and South America.

    My (general) sanity rules have become these: never stop for less than two nights, always spend four nights in the same place after 2-3 shorter stops, and spend a full week somewhere during the trip.

    While this may feel limiting, I’ve found that anything more strenuous has always overwhelmed someone in the group.

    Edit: minor schedule adjustments

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      I’d say: do the opposite! Don’t plan anything, stay no more than two nights at the same place, jump on a train and see where you end up. Then, if you don’t like, just take the next train somewhere else.

      I did this twice in my early twenties and it was amazing. I mean, it was absolutely horrible. I slept on bark benches, in Cafés, in train stations, before train stations (until they turned on the sprinklers)… I was picked up by the police because we got lost in a field and more than once I was convinced I’d die. But it was absolutely worth it and both trips became core memories / PTSD trigger.

      But seriously, don’t follow this advice if you have a kid and are not an immortal twenty-something.

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        That’s basically how I developed my current planning guidelines lol.

        It was fun/terrifying but I’d rather not sleep in hotels that charge by the hour these days.

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      Thank you for the sane guidelines. My latent hubris would no doubt have me blurring about the continent like the subject of an international manhunt. Having spent 48 hours on a cross country Amtrak once, I should be less keen to recreate the experience in European terms.