Be a pacesetter , Plan your travel itinerary intelligently.
Outdoors offer us the chance to find out crisis management. the journey starts when every plan starts to fail, and that we fall during a crisis of options.
Became a pacesetter for you, your team and make few plans, depending upon the character of the team, team size (solo, friends/colleagues, or family), geography of destinations and resources available. A well said note from an ancient Indian book of knowledge:
-Rig Veda 1-146-4
(A person with great patience, farsighted, and wise leads their people to the safe place after defending their different sorts of emotions /managing their crisis.).
Make your plans, consider the following:
a) Time: early and timely made decide to avoid crowd, traffic, difficult weather, higher expenses etc.
b) Geography of travel & destination: study the weather, landscape, roads, rivers, ATM/Bank, police stations, hospitals, restaurants etc. it's always better to possess a map.
c) Mode of travel (by walking, road, rail, air, marine and/or by any combinations): Identify the associated expense (fuel, tickets, toll fee, other fee etc.) and risks. Keep your plan B able to avoid or eliminate the danger .
d) Accommodations (hotel, motel, lodge, camps, tents and/or by combinations): Identify the associated expense and risks. Keep your plan B able to avoid or eliminate the danger .
e) Legal or statutory requirements: Identify and be able to suits all the legal or statutory requirements of the local administrations.
f) Healthy and hygienic meal (in hotel restaurants, roadside restaurants, able to eat packed, self-cooked, etc.): always eat hot & hydrating meals and drink clean water to avoid any problem. Better, be a vegan/vegetarian while travelling.
g) a primary Aid Kit: with some necessary common medicines like pain killer, antibiotics, anti-allergic, antacid, ORS (sugar & salt) etc.
h) Team members with special needs: lookout of the special needs of youngsters , women, pets et al. .
i) Navigations, Communication & Emergency Helpline: Must carry your navigation and communication devices (a radio or a mobile , a GPS receiver, a compass etc.). Be ready with all the communication details of area emergency services and nearby emergency helpline/police stations/doctors/hospitals. Inform nearby check-post/police booth just in case you enter a no radio wave zone.
j) Packing: Recognize the necessity of each member, weather of the destination and most significantly the comfort to hold your luggage while packing resources and gears.
k) Health: keep tracking the health of everyone for sickness caused by travel, high altitude, difficult weather etc.
l) Finance: Make bookings fully paid to avoid carrying excess cash or additional cards, make payment through credit and debit cards wherever possible, keep some take advantage the pocket separately to be used in an emergency (where cashless isn't possible).
m) Morale Booster: keep some resources to spice up morale of yourself and your team during the whole journey.
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