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Do you pack your travel bags weeks ahead of your scheduled take-off?
Do you map out which restaurants and cafes you'll eat at for the length of your whole stay?
Not necessarily.
Never.
And absolutely, I do!
My holidays are always planned around where I'd like to eat and which food markets, greengrocers and even supermarkets - worth their salt - I'd like to visit.
But the coronavirus pandemic has dramatically changed how we travel, both in planning the journey and even the ultimate destination.
Overseas trips for leisure are likely off limits again this year, which should only simplify things.
Realistically, however, domestic travel is not even guaranteed more often than not amid the COVID-19 crisis.
Keeping up with who has closed their state borders to whom is a job in and of itself. As a New South Welshwoman, I wouldn't feel supremely confident booking a trip to the Great Barrier Reef or The Kimberley any time soon.
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Keeping up with who has closed their state borders to whom is a job in and of itself. As a New South Welshwoman, I wouldn't feel supremely confident booking a trip to the Great Barrier Reef or The Kimberley any time soon.
When I booked a Melbourne trip late in 2020 for the New Year, I stopped short of reserving any restaurants.
That way it was slightly less disappointing when I pulled the plug on those plans after the Victorian border closure.
Still, I'm keen to get to Melbourne when the dust settles again.
Instead we looked to regional NSW.
Then we found our destination was out of the border bubble and not going back into Victoria for 14 days without isolating was out of the question.
We sat tight and waited for an orange light.
Eventually the restrictions eased, allowing my husband to take our girls bush for swimming, riding and roughing it.
Resigned to spending the holidays at home, it was a bonus getaway.
Our girls swam in a country lake at twilight, had a 50-metre town pool all to themselves on a 38-degree afternoon and discovered the thrills and spills of riding a biscuit behind a boat.
These were all experiences they hadn't counted on.
Gone are the days when you can plan your travel breaks in fine detail.
For people - like me - who enjoy the anticipation of the trip almost as much as the trip itself, sometimes it's a challenge to go with the flow.
Yet the benefits of doing just that are perfectly clear.
American author Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote: "Life is a journey, not a destination".
"Life is a journey, not a destination" can be also interpreted as a healthy balance between doing and being, between planning and letting go, between producing results and going through the required processes to achieve them.
We're also learning to relax closer to home than ever before.
Border residents have booked hotels in their own cities and towns to spend time with family and friends, poolside with a cocktail or two.
Others have booked into neighbourhood camping grounds, which suffered mass cancellations after border closures.
There have been countless examples of communities looking after their own.
Having spent a night at Hotel Granya Farm Stay recently, there is no-end of fun experiences in our own neck of the woods.
We were there before anyone had the chance to utter: "Are we there yet?"
With ardent alpacas, sweet chicks and miniature horses, all you need to remember to do was shut the gate.
John Lennon was on to something when he said: "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
Many of us would like to enjoy the moment, yet we can't help but get ahead of ourselves.
Maybe 2020 has taught us better how to roll with the punches.
Those willing to wing it - booking and packing at a moment's notice when work and life allow it - will travel better this year.