This simple step can end a lot of guess work and heart ache on a trip. I got this idea from my dive instructor when he said that if you are not feeling the dive don’t do it. There will always be another dive. So if it works on a dive why won’t it work on a trip. Take for instance if you get really sick, do you want to struggle on with the trip anyways. If you are doing a solo trip, than there is no problem, but if there is other people on the tript then it becomes an issue.

In some cases you can just cut it short for yourself, if you are part of a travel group, but if it is a family outing than your cancelling ends the trip for everybody. That is why you need a plan for shortening or ending it. When my parents took me to Mexico, I was only four years old, I nearly died twice, yet my parents kept on with the trip. Was that a bit much? Most parents would have ended the trip after their youngest child drowned and needed CPR to be revived. Not my parents they did not end the trip even after I got a near fatal case of dysentery and required intravenous fluids and antibiotics.

On our last trip we cut the vacation short by two days. We mainly did this because the weather did not give us any more options. We had accomplished all of our possible goals and besides we had reached a financial milestone. I had set a limit for our finances to insure that we had enough money to get back home. When we reached it we started our trip home.

Your plan can be as simple or as complicated as you want to make it. What is the point of continuing on with a vacation if it is no longer any fun? Or it will cause you to have financial issues?