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Travel Planning is My Happy Place

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I am planner. I love having a plan, even at the most base level. I do this for almost everything. And I do this because, once you have a basic plan, you can build and shift as the situation needs.  One of my favorite things to plan is travel. I can't tell you how many trips I have planned for my family that may never come to fruition, but I enjoy it immensely.  Travel planning is most definitely the biggest rabbit hole for me. I start planning one trip and three more are born. If we were to do all the trips in my notebook, we would be busy until 2030. (Which one trip is scheduled and actively being planned for that year already.) The hardest thing about daydreaming travel is being realistic about how we can travel. I would live full-time in our RV if I could, but that's not realistic. I would take my kids to everything that is available to do and see (and eat!) when we do travel, but that's not realistic. Reality is hard and no fun sometimes.  We have a few major trips comi