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[spoke]

Okay. Trying to stop myself from utter panic in my attempt at vacation planning. Although the fact that I have no idea what I'm doing (!!!) does not help with this.

And so I have a question, in hopes that someone more experianced with traveling can answer it (or maybe throw a pillow at me for being blinded by my own panic, which is entirely possible).

Which of these two things should happen first: Buying plane tickets or applying for my days off at work?

Also do I just go and look for a hotel after I get there, or arrange that beforehand, or what?

Because all the "Wheeee! Vacation!" kind of sputtered and hid once I started trying to plan. Though it keeps peeking out as long as I'm not thinking about useful details of planning. -.-

Oh! And plane tickets... buy them online or go talk to someone at the airport?

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[shusu.livejournal.com]

Work, online tickets (unless you want to do a test drive to the airport -- I mean, where is your car going to be parked?), call or website the airport about packing and where to redeem tickets and/or check in luggage, reserve hotel in advance or show up in a city with lots of hotels without, uh, knowing where any of these hotels are and be willing to read a map to find them while driving -- probably not the latter.

Do NOT forget that package I sent you, because hi, it has a list of hotels and maps and tips. And you do too have an idea of what you're doing, otherwise you wouldn't even ask. Just put yourself through it step by step ("so if I show up and I don't know where I'm sleeping... I should probably do that before I leave") and ask questions till your plan is solid. Break it into small steps, I can tell you're swallowing it whole from over here.

[spoke.livejournal.com]

^^;;; But of course I am swallowing it whole, this is my default approach to things? *hides* <-- *second default, reaction to choking on things swallowed whole!*

And I've been reading that! In bits and pieces, and trying to decide where I'm going and whatnot. Only there are two things I want to do that are fairly far apart and I'm having troubling deciding do I really want to go on what looks like a maybe 7 hour drive. Well, I mean, I want to, but do I think I can do this and not get lost? >.>;;;

And what about car rental, ahhhh! x.x I should look at the book and see if it mentions that.... *scoots off after book*