Episode Two: Acclimation. London, England
Sean and Chris show you how to acclimate once you arrive at your destination. Don’t get detained by immigration or blown up. Subscribe to the podcast here.
See the first episode here.
Some other necessities of acclimating? Check below.
If you need a 15-hour night of sleep, do it if you can, really. Long flights - and, I admit, sometimes not so long trips of any kind - can knock me out. If I push myself I don’t enjoy what I want to do, or I crash later. Put yourself in the right state of mind, ignore your guilt for missing valuable time.
Get a liberal, quickhand between your home currency and what you’re now using. The cardinal rule is learn to operate in your new currency as soon as you can - because you need that mindset - and that is all well and good, but if the U.S. dollar is trading 1.7 to the Euro, double every price tag you see. Do you need a hamburger that badly if it is suddenly $14 USD - and not going to be as good as at home anyway?
That said, suck it up and accept you’re going to get burned. If you take chances in travel - which you well should - you’re going to lose some bank. Today I hoped on a double decker bus 30 pence shy of the fare. We had no cash on hand because we were just making a short trip, so I was forced to put some on from a credit card, which meant $3 penalty fare, in addition to the cost and the burden. It’s worth it.
Those are just some that come to mind. Anyone have any others?
