{"id":14383,"date":"2023-01-13T10:38:37","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T15:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sunflowerit.ca\/travel\/auto-draft\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T15:02:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T19:02:05","slug":"the-preparations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sunflowerit.ca\/travel\/trips-asia\/other-trips\/south-east-asia-2023\/the-preparations\/","title":{"rendered":"The preparations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Over the years as we gained experience from planning 15+ trips, we developed and enhanced two worksheets to help us track our travel expenditures and document our trip itineraries. Our latest travel planning was truly a collaborative effort between Jenny and I. As I focused on documenting our itinerary using Google Maps and our homegrown spreadsheets, Jenny delved into finding and bookmarking some of the most relevant YouTube travel videos for the different places we would be visiting during our journey. Although we have invested a fair amount of time planning our trip, we’ve learned that things can (and will) always show up along the way to disrupt our original plan. Hence, our itinerary remains a work in progress.<\/p>\n\n\n