Wednesday, Apr. 27, 2022
“Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.”
~ Ibn Battuta
Your Library Card can lead to an epic odyssey!
Happy travelers know the secret to adventure-awesomeness: planning.
Step 1. Have a strategy!
Navigation
- Go old school. Get a Road Atlas. Have you ever relied on your phone for navigation only to encounter a "no-service area" for 3 hours? Never again.
- Snag a Travel Guide. Rick Steves, Lonely Planet, Fodors, Eyewitness and more guarantee a trip tailored to your tastes.
Entertainment
- Music. Every road trip needs a soundtrack. Years later you'll hear song from it that takes you back to the sights and smells of your roadie. Will you have phone reception? If so, our streaming music services are the way to go. No service? No worries! Good old-fashioned CDs are still available for checkout. ;)
- An audiobook. Remember how Listening to Will Wheaton voicing Ready Player One got you from here to Dallas and back a couple years ago? Get them in pretty much any format you want, even an eAudiobook.
- Snackage. You're going to get hungry and the stops are sometimes few and far between. Our advice? Snack-up!
- Have a contingency plan for that abomination your hotel is calling "cable." An eMagazine and eNewspapers will give you solid alternatives.
- Make sure you've viewed this travel tutorial at least once before hitting the open road. :D
Step 2. Pick up your holds from your favorite location.
Step 3. Roll.