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Tips For Creating Happier Travel Memories - Travel Tip Tuesday · Travel Mug Podcast

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  Jenn: Hey everyone, and welcome back to Travel Tip Tuesday with the Travel Mug Podcast.
• 0:05
  Jenn: How are you doing today, Meggan?
• 0:07
  Meggan: I'm lovely.
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  Meggan: You know, it's still summertime, we can't complain.
• 0:11
  Jenn: Can't complain.
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  Jenn: So I was recently reading an article on Pocket and I'll, I'll link the article in the show notes so people can also read it.
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  Jenn: But the article was Seven Tips to Create Happier Travel Memories, which I thought was interesting.
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  Meggan: Mm-hmm.
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  Jenn: And I thought maybe we could discuss them a bit.
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  Meggan: I love that.
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  Jenn: All right, so the first tip was go to a new place every year.
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  Jenn: They say the quick route to making new memories is new experiences, and I agree with that, and I feel like you can also have new experiences in familiar places as well.
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  Jenn: So I just don't want it to like, put you off visiting your favorite places.
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  Meggan: Mm-hmm.
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  Jenn: I mean what did, what do you think about that, Meggan?
• 0:59
  Meggan: As we all know, we go to Bar Harbor every year.
• 1:02
  Jenn: Yeah.
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  Meggan: So, However, I have to say besides that, we are, I don't even know of anywhere else we've repeated.
• 1:10
  Meggan: We are not repeat travelers.
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  Meggan: I do want new experiences.
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  Meggan: Now, next year we're likely going back to Iceland, but of course we've not seen it all, so I may intend to have new experience.
• 1:21
  Meggan: Isn't.
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  Meggan: In a similar country I've been to, but I'm not a repeat traveler.
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  Meggan: I don't wanna go back to the same resort.
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  Meggan: I don't wanna do any of the things.
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  Jenn: Yeah.
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  Meggan: I do want new experiences, I guess, besides Bar Harbor.
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  Jenn: Yeah.
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  Jenn: I mean, I think we're similar like Disney obviously, as our, our repeat spot, but otherwise we haven't done a whole lot.
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  Meggan: Of course, there's so much of the world to see.
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  Jenn: Yeah.
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  Jenn: All right.
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  Jenn: So the next tip is to leave your comfort zone, which to me is very much like the similar tip to number one, right?
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  Meggan: Yeah.
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  Jenn: But they say people remember emotions.
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  Jenn: So when you do something that frightens you a little bit, it gets your adrenaline pumping.
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  Jenn: And to me, I'm like, sure, like those things are memorable, but I don't think you have to go like skydiving or do like an extreme sport like traveling somewhere new can literally be leaving your comfort zone.
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  Jenn: So I guess,
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  Meggan: well, that's what I was just gonna say.
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  Meggan: That's kind of different for everyone.
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  Meggan: Everybody's comfort zone is different.
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  Meggan: So yeah, like whatever that means for you.
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  Meggan: But I do agree, like doing something a little different for you could be really very memorable.
• 2:33
  Meggan: So I mean, I agree, but that could be also be something small and still memorable.
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  Meggan: So it doesn't have to be, and nor will it ever be for me skydiving.
• 2:41
  Jenn: Yeah.
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  Meggan: My husband's done it twice and I'm just like, you did it once for me and once for you.
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  Jenn: Yeah.
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  Jenn: We're good.
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  Jenn: Check mark.
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  Meggan: Yay.
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  Jenn: All right.
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  Jenn: The next tip is to engage all of your senses and this one, I believe for sure.
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  Jenn: So take your time to listen, to like taste the food if you're eating, take in the scenery without looking at it through the screen of your phone.
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  Jenn: Hmm.
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  Jenn: Yes.
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  Meggan: Oh yeah.
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  Jenn: No, notes..
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  Jenn: Perfect.
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  Meggan: I completely agree.
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  Meggan: Like I always like when I'm traveling, love to post photos with comments and like, so it looks like, okay, well she just took pictures all day.
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  Meggan: Not the case at all.
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  Meggan: There's so many moments where I'm just like in awe, like hands down, like just mouth agape.
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  Meggan: I'm sure it's lovely, but like just literally looking around and or taste like it says, tasting the food, whatever.
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  Meggan: Like otherwise, why are you there?
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  Jenn: Mm-hmm.
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  Jenn: Yes.
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  Jenn: So their next tip is to buy the souvenir.
• 3:40
  Jenn: And I agree.
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  Jenn: I am drinking out of my mug from Disneyland Paris from 2015, and I do love having these reminders that I use like in my everyday life.
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  Jenn: So when I get the mug out of the cupboard, I can kind of think about my day that I had a Disneyland paris.
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  Meggan: There you go.
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  Meggan: Love that.
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  Jenn: All right, the last tip?
• 4:01
  Jenn: Nope, not the last tip.
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  Jenn: We're only on number five.
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  Jenn: Jenn.
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  Jenn: Learn to count.
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  Meggan: It's been, it's been hot today.
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  Meggan: You, when you get a pass,
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  Jenn: the next tip is to end the trip on a high note.
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  Jenn: So psychologist Daniel Kahneman developed the peak end theory, which proposes that we remember experiences by their most intense moment and how they ended.
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  Jenn: So they proposed to maybe book an amazing restaurant or do something that you're really looking forward to at the near the end of your trip.
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  Jenn: Which I thought was interesting.
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  Meggan: I've never pondered that before.
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  Meggan: No, I really haven't thought, like, how are we gonna end this?
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  Meggan: Cuz I think obviously you're, you're quite caught up in planning the middle.
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  Jenn: Yeah.
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  Meggan: Like the end is just sort of like whatever, but however, I mean, sometimes we do that by accident, but I guess I've never really specifically thought let's do something at the end to make it.
• 4:58
  Meggan: I'm, I'm gonna try that next time.
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  Jenn: Report back.
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  Meggan: Will do, will do.
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  Jenn: The next tip is to print your photos, and we agree, we've talked about this before.
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  Jenn: Pick a few of your favorites and put them up in your house, even if it's on the fridge, to help you relive the moments that you were traveling.
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  Meggan: Yeah.
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  Jenn: And lastly, don't be afraid of things going wrong.
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  Jenn: Struggles make better travel stories.
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  Jenn: And it is true.
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  Jenn: And whenever we've had a difficult day traveling, I usually tell myself someday we'll laugh about this.
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  Jenn: And usually it's true.
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  Meggan: Usually.
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  Meggan: Yeah, no, I agree.
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  Meggan: And I mean, you also can't go into your days while traveling scared of something going wrong.
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  Meggan: So if it's gonna happen, it's gonna happen regardless, and you just have to obviously, hopefully it's nothing too bad.
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  Jenn: Yeah.
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  Meggan: But just like try to make the most of it.
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  Meggan: And you're right, likely it will be a story to tell someday.
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  Jenn: Mm-hmm.
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  Jenn: All right.
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  Jenn: So I want to know what you, the listeners think, do you agree with these?
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  Jenn: Is there anything you would add?
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  Jenn: Let us know
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  Meggan: hmm,
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  Jenn: what you think.
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  Jenn: So, that is it.
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  Jenn: That is it for this week's Travel Tip Tuesday.
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  Meggan: Mm-hmm.
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  Jenn: We appreciate all of those things and we'll talk to you again soon.
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  Jenn: Bye
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  Meggan: bye.