How do you choose your next destination? In Episode 116 I chat with four travellers about the different ways they decide where they're going to travel next and between them we discover a multitude of reasons people choose their destinations - and there are no doubt still more!

First up I chat with Tamara Gruber who takes some trips alone with her school-aged daughter and is clever at tying in some of their destinations to connect up with what her daughter's been learning at school (I love this!).

Meagan Hurst is next and follows a method I often use too: where can she get a bargain airfare to! I have quite often visited a pretty random place just because it was cheap to get there, and sometimes those places turn out to be unexpected gems.

My Cambodian friend Cham Peou has put quite some thought into how he chooses his destations and I love his approach.

Finally, I chat with Greg Seymour who has a really great philosophy about choosing destinations - and making sure he and his wife go outside their comfort zones, but not too far out (which I think is the perfect strategy!).

Links:

• Travel Journal School journal writing course in January 2019 - sign up to get info first at https://notaballerina.com/journal 
• Tamara’s podcast Vacation Mavens - http://vacationmavens.com/
• Tamara’s blog We3Travel - https://we3travel.com
• Meagan Hurst of Malas With a Mission - http://malaswithamission.com/
• Meagan’s Instagram - https://instagram.com/malaswithamission 
• Peou Sokchamreun (Cham)’s Facebook page - http://www.facebook.com/CommunityBaseTourismTraveller 
• Greg’s website Appalachian Trail Tales -  https://appalachiantrailtales.com/
• Greg’s book “Thru-Hiking the Appalachian Trail: 100 Tips, Tricks, Traps and Facts” - https://amzn.to/2SNwJtc 
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• Show notes: http://notaballerina.com/116

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