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How to travel the correct way

bucknave000 Uncategorized November 15, 2021November 18, 2021Lifestyle, prepaired, relaxing, Travel, World 0 Comment

Having to plan a trip is very difficult, but when you have guidelines it can make the trip more enjoyable. Some of the things to factor in when planning is you should always plan ahead of time, plan according to weather, how to find the correct hotel, packing 101, rental car or uber, recovering from possible jet lag, covid restrictions, etc. These are all things to consider before planning your next relaxing vacation.

Planning in advance

You may know that to travel by plane, bus, or car you must plan ahead of time. When traveling you would do the same thing. You must consider when the best time to travel would be, when would it be less busy. To travel to Dubai, you must factor in when the least busy time to travel would be, in this circumstance this would be April and September. But you should also factor in when you shouldn’t go. For example, You should not visit Dubai in August because of its EXTREME humidity and climate conditions at this time of year. You should also plan out if there are any safety issues in that place where you plan on spending the next week relaxing. If they are in any cultural war or in any fight whatsoever that could put your life in danger. These are all things that you need to plan and think about.

Planning for weather

We all know that the worst thing when traveling is packing warm clothes when it is cold, or vice versa. I recently traveled to Hawaii, and on the plane, I wore a hoodie and some warm leggings without thinking about how hot it would be. As soon as I took one step off the airplane I began sweating. The best thing to do if you make the same mistake as I did is to pack an extra pair of clothes in your carry-on. A good idea when you are planning on traveling is to keep an eye on your weather app. We all know that different places experience different weather conditions and seasons, for example, Hurricane season. Many places are close enough to the ocean that they do have to deal with the consequences of living there. All I am trying to say is that watching the weather is very important when traveling, you don’t want to be walking in 90-degree weather in a hoodie and leggings. Trust me.

How to find the perfect hotel

Sometimes staying in a 5-star hotel isn’t always the best idea, but you also don’t want to stay in a 1-star hotel either. The more stars almost always mean $. So, in my opinion, the best hotels are the 3-4 range, 2-1 is too low and probably means bad customer service and problems with the hotel. You should also factor in where the hotel is in, is the area safe? Does the hotel have common issues? If you have kids does the hotel have a pool, or is it kid-friendly?

These are all things that are important to think about. Most of the time a newer hotel means it will be cleaner and up to standards. So when finding a hotel you should look for the location of the place, price, star count, and if it is kid-friendly.

Packing 101

When packing you should also factor in the weather, excursions, etc. If you are going to a place where you plan on walking around a lot like Disney make sure you bring appropriate shoes. When I went to Disneyland I wore some sandals and the next day I couldn’t walk because it hurt so bad. If you are going somewhere cold, bring jackets and gloves. If you are going somewhere hot, bring sunscreen. But one thing that most people do not know about traveling is that you should never wear Camouflage, it can be considered rude or offensive. In certain areas, you should not wear certain clothes that show too much skin. So make sure you check their religion and if the clothes you are wearing would affect the religion.

Rental or uber

Sometimes when you travel around your car may not be available to drive. Lots of people don’t like to use uber because of safety problems. Others don’t want to pay the amount for a rental car. So why not just walk? Well, it depends on where you are going. If you have a hotel booked on one side of the state and your destination is on the other side, walking won’t accommodate you. My parents recently traveled to London. For the first quarter of the trip they had a friend take them around, the second quarter they had an uber driver, the third quarter they walked, and the cycle repeats. So you don’t just have to stick with one plan the entire time. You just need to check the area you are staying in to make sure it is safe to take an uber by yourself, or if it is safe to walk.

Jet-lag

We all know that different areas of the world have different time zones. The biggest problem with traveling to a different time zone is experiencing jet lag. The dictionary defines Jet Lag as “ extreme tiredness or other physical effects felt by a person after a long flight across several time zones.” when I traveled to Oahu, Hawaii the time was 4 hours behind my home state time. So when I originally woke up at 7 in the morning at my home state I would be waking up around 3 in Oahu. The best way to avoid jet lag or make it so it isn’t that bad is to take lots of naps on the flight. Avoid eating when you’re not hungry, and only eat when you are hungry. Try to go to bed when the new time zone would be you originally going to bed.

COVID-19

Ever Since 2020, COVID-19 has been chasing our tails. Many stores require you to wear a mask, and for employees to have a COVID vaccine. In Oahu, I had to either have my second shot of the COVID vaccine or a negative test. To go on excursions, eat at the breakfast dining in, enter the hotel, or even EAT in restaurants I had to show proof, my parents even had to show a driver’s license. Some places are not available to travel to or have a small chance of shutting down before you travel. I say this because when I was in 6th grade my family had a family trip planned for Rome, this was of course right when COVID came into play. We had to get health insurance and had to plan to quarantine 2 weeks after our trip. Two weeks before the trip, it got canceled. Nobody could enter or exit. So if I would watch the COVID cases when your trip is coming up.

Money

I don’t have much information on this topic but I know that different countries use money differently than we do. I am not going to touch down on all of the different places but here are a few examples ( these examples are from the site Worldatlas.com)

Costa rica colon 100 centimos ( 1 US dollar = 600 colones)
Thailand baht 100 satang ( 1 US dollar = 33.27 baht )
Ireland euro 100 cents ( 1 US dollar = 0.86 euro )
Japan yen 100 cen ( 1 US dollar = 113.91 yen )
Bolivia boliviano 100 centavos ( 1 US dollar = 6.89)

These are just a few examples that I find very interesting. A US dollar can go a very long way or a short way depending on the place, so when traveling I would check the currency so you know how much money to bring.

Tik Tok challenges are getting out of hand

bucknave000 Uncategorized November 2, 2021challenges, dangerous, social media, tik tok 0 Comment

Tik Tok, a media-based platform to update kids, teenagers, and even adults on recent trends, and for fun dances. But there is also a dark side of the fun, trend-following platform, The Challenges. Kids, teens, and even adults are following these “Harmful” challenges. The challenges are slowly getting worse. For example, In August the challenge was to make it across stacked milk crates and not fall. WeAreTeachers.com states “Last month, TikTok banned the Milk Crate Challenge from their platform. If you’re curious, a quick YouTube search will reveal a bunch of people filming themselves or their friends falling painfully to the ground after stacking milk crates into a pyramid and trying to walk over it.” But, before this became viral another challenge came into view, the Cha Cha Slide challenge. This is where people would follow the directions from the song the Cha Cha Slide, by DJ Casper in the car. Weareteachers.com also says “There were also other more alarming trends—the Benadryl Challenge, the Blackout Challenge, and so on. Now, it seems like the latest dangerous TikTok challenge has emerged almost from out of nowhere. Most students call it “Devious Licks” and it’s directly aimed at schools.” This shows that Tiktok is more dangerous than we think. This new “Devious Licks” challenge has kids vandalizing and stealing school property.

You may think that this is funny, possibly harmless, however, it encourages students to steal from school and see how much they can get away with. Weareteacher.com says “ Most of the stolen items have been small, like soap dispensers, hand sanitizers, rolls of paper towels, or boxes of masks. Other students, however, have pushed the trend to its limit stealing much larger items. These larger Devious licks include kids stealing computers, smart boards, projectors, etc. They are all captioned with “Had the most devious lick at school today.” This shows that kids are trying to push past the believable limits. But that’s not all. Even though they steal, they vandalize schools. I have witnessed this myself, I have seen kids drawing in the bathroom stalls with permanent markers, pens, and pencils. www.cnbc.com says “ TikTok says 1 billion people use the app each month” The challenge’s change monthly, October is to assault a teacher, yeah, you heard me assault a teacher. This challenge is to go up to a teacher and either verbally assault them, or physical assault. I don’t mean start a fistfight in the lunchroom with teachers, I mean go up and slap them. I have had teachers tell the whole classroom that if this were to happen to them they would send the student down to the police officer downstairs and press charges. I can only imagine how bad next month’s challenge is, just imagine all arrest warrants, or charges pressed. So my opinion is that Tik Tok should ban all of these challenges when they first arise. This way they don’t continue further on and spread. Or even better ban the users that create and promote these dangerous challenges.