If you love to travel but most things make you nervous, this is the site for you.
On the outside, I may seem cool as a cucumber but most of the time, on the inside, I’m a cat hanging from the ceiling. I also happen to be an obsessive planner. On this website, I’ll share itineraries and chronicle my travels in hopes that my quirks will be to your benefit and help you with your own travel plans. Along the way I’ll rate things on a scaredy cat scale for the other Nervous Nellies out there.
If you’re not nervous, slow clap, great for you.
The next trip on the itinerary is a three-week odyssey across Japan and South Korea.
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Day 3 Extended Version – Friday, May 26
Tokyo – Haneda Airport, Odaiba Land in Tokyo early afternoon, transfer to hotel – better known as the first hurdle Transportation: Monorail (insert Simpsons song here); trains, feet Hotel: The Conrad in the Shiodome area Plans: If all goes well, and that’s a big if, we’ll get to the hotel and be able to make our Read more
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Day 2 Extended Version – Thursday, May 25
…somewhere over the deep, dark, scary ocean… Fly to Tokyo all day and night Flight: Delta Airlines Non-Stop to Tokyo Haneda airport in Comfort Plus Hotel: the plane Plans: random panic attacks Scaredy Cat rating: Four paws. See above plans. As scared as I am of flying, I am even more horrified by the ocean Read more
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Day 1 Extended Version – Wednesday, May 24
Dallas to Los Angeles Flight: American Airlines Non-Stop to Ontario airport in Economy Hotel: TownPlace Suites Los Angeles LAX/Hawthorne ~ Studio 2 Queen + Sofa Bed Plans: Pull Rowan from his next to last day of school and fly to LA. Bonus – Dinner with the film crew! Scaredy Cat rating: Two paws. There will Read more
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A Little More About Hotels
Finding hotel rooms overseas on a budget with two opposite gender, mostly grown and mostly tall kids is a challenge. Keeping in mind that we would be spending 22 nights together in closer quarters than we’ve been in quite a while, I wanted to be strategic in which hotels and hotel rooms I booked. My Read more
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The Planning Process
In a nutshell, it’s not easy. Or quick. It is nerve-wracking, tedious and slower than Rowan getting in the car to go to a restaurant he doesn’t like. Spoiler alert – he doesn’t like any of them. I estimate I have spent approximately one million hours planning this version of the trip. That is Read more
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Oh the Frustration! Two Weeks & Counting
(Originally written May 10, 2023) Just two weeks to go and no matter how much I prepared (and I have greatly overprepared), invariably in the final days before a trip I find myself in panic mode – ordering clothes that I planned to buy weeks ago with the added joy of rushed shipping; finally booking events Read more
Scaredy Cat Travels 