Choosing a "kaladkarin" path
Sunday, November 08, 2009
1. Patience.
Do you want a good deal? Be ready to work for it. Equip yourself with this before you go on research mode and you should be fine.
2. Know the writer.
Or at least know the character of the writer. What’s affordable for Joanna may not be affordable for you. Does the writer have the same traveling style or preferences as you? The same goes with forums – users of PeX (Pinoy Exchange) are different from the ones at GirlTalk.
3. Have an archive.
Gathering information is pretty extreme – you either love it or hate it. It gets tiring when you have to do it over and over and over again. While googling for a trip to Gensan you come across a fabulous entry about Davao, keep it. You never know if you’ll end on that page again especially when site hopping. What’s more difficult, copy and pasting the link in a word/notepad file or racking your brain to remember link?
4. Quality over quantity.
This is actually my mantra for a lot of things in life. Choose which pages you will need and save. Don’t save each and every page you encounter. When you start going through the 659 links you archived, you get overwhelmed and will need a chill pill.
5. Share the burden.
Obviously this is only applicable if you are NOT traveling alone. Haha We are all busy with work, family and life in general. Give out research assignments! Anya researches on food while accommodations are handled by Sophie and so on and so forth.
What other tricks do you have up your sleeve? Spill!
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