| Asking For Travel Directions |
| Monday, August 11, 2008 |
Asking For Travel Directions
I cannot remember the last time I opened a map inside a large city, the second the city becomes too big to walk across easily, I lose the map.
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Manila, Ermita Philippines
Monday, August 11, 2008
Blog of Andy HoboTraveler.com --- Add a Hotel --- Backpack Design Survey
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I had a friend asking me where Khao San Road is on the Google Maps, I had to admit,
“I do not know.”
I have an idea, but the truth is, I could not point Khao San Road on a map, even thought I have gone to this area over 50 times, and closer to 100. I just do not know where it located on map.
I do know, it cost between 200 and 300 Baht for a trip from the Airport and to MoShip the northbound bus station is about 150 Baht. I also know how to ask the reception desk to write in the Thaland the words Mochip or Moship, so the taxi does not have to understand me.
I am here in Manila, I have a trip to Quezon City now to two separate businesses a few times, and have been playing perfect travel golf. Every trip has been a hole in one; I make it without any sand traps in my way.
Why, because I do not try to know where I am, I get in a taxi; call up the host business with my mobile phone and say,
“Please tell the taxi driver how to get to your business.”
AIRPORT SHUTTLE or LIMO SERVICE
I believe a super business traveler should not need an airport shuttle service; they should not need to be picked up by a limo driver. The business traveler who is really a capable person should not need to live in a Five Star Hotel.
I really think a highly effective, highly capable Business Traveler should be able to find any address in a city.
I believe only 1 in 100 can, the others are lost.
I on the other hand know that 1 in 100 travelers can find their Hotel easy; most are wandering around lost looking for their Hotel, it rarely is found first attempt.
What saves all of them; they live in well-known areas of the city and in well-known Hotels, never wanting to admit they are lost.
There is an art to finding locations in a city; I could talk for hours, maybe days on how to effectively find locations in a large city. Then again, I also am not afraid to ask for directions.
If a person wishes to travel the world, either they learn to enjoy being lost, or they learn the art of asking for directions. I can do it in at least 50 different ways, it is not just asking, you also must know if the person knows.
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posted by Andy HoboTraveler.com @ 7:36 AM   |
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Ask 50 different people in 50 different ways and go the way the least number of people tell you to.
Bob L
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I set the record for wrong directions in a Mall in Buenos Aires, Argentina, they told me the wrong directions 24 times in a row and I just got bored.
I was asking where the internet cafe was in the Mall, later I learned there was none, but everyone just kept giving bad directions. I was doing it for sport, I was up to 11 in Quito, Ecuador, wanted to see how bad it could be.
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This really makes me laugh.
Typical as is the difference between men and women. If my husband and I get lost I always want to ask for directions and he always says, no we can figure it out, or something similar.
Usually one to two hours later, we'll stop somewhere and I'LL GET OUT of the vehicle and ask while he pretends he is doing something really important in the vehicle ... like staring out the other window.
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Ask 50 different people in 50 different ways and go the way the least number of people tell you to.
Bob L