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Look Over My Shoulder — Stage 1
Dreaming/Brainstorming
This post begins a series of articles in which I walk you through my travel planning process — from barely an idea to reservations and actual travel.
You can read the introduction to this series here.
“This road -before-the-road has, for some time, robbed me of both my nights and my days.” ~Bernard Ollivier, Out of Istanbul
One: The Dreaming/Brainstorming Stage
There are so many places I want to visit. In the last few years, I have come to appreciate slow, long-term travel. This means that I am mostly only considering destinations where I would like to settle for a while, exploring the region over months and getting to know the locals.
Even the skeleton idea of this journey did not solidify until after several months of consideration. Here are some of the directions my thinking went:
