Amazing Travel Ideas Around the World

Americas

United States

• Arizona : white sands
• Napa : wine train, dome dining cart. Tank Garage Winery
• Solvang - the danish capital of America. A beautiful Danish themed town with amazing danish cookies and pastry.
• Sausalito. Inn Above Tide, as poetic as its name. Right next to the ferry.
• SoCal : June lake hot springs. 
• Sacramento: Rail bike
• Seattle:  Starbucks coffee based cocktail, Starbucks reserve beans. 
• Hawaii : Arancino in the Kahala (a less busy but equally exceptional arancino, a popular restaurant). Beautiful Kahala resort with dolphins and sea animals right at the hotel. 
• Los Angeles / Beverly Hills / Hollywood glam: Only Roses forever rose shop in Beverly Hills. Tiffany Blue Cafe Restaurant
• Texas: white sand national park. 

Asia

• Tiger temple where monks feed and live with tigers. 

Europe

•  Christmas Market

Interest

• LGBT travel, pride events, pride parade e.g. Amsterdam, Lima
• Instagram inspired travels.
• Skiing : slope side lodging
• Tesla superchargers : some of the fancy ones come with high tech lounges, coffee vending machines and clean bathrooms like Kettleman between San Francisco and Los Angeles
• Train: Amtrak coastal starlight, private room. 

Lifehack Daily Quadrant

The daily quadrant (as seen on fast company) divides your 8 hour work day into 4 quadrants of 2-hour blocks. In each block you focus and work on tasks of a certain priority / quadrant. 

The first quadrant : "The first two hours of the day are for high intensity, high-impact work." That's when your 🧠 works the best. This is a time for tasks that make you money, are of the utter most importance. A common pitfall is to use this time to check emails.

The second quadrant: "The next two hours of the day should be dedicated to high intensity, low-impact work." These are not necessarily money producing or life-changing works but may still require high concentration: one-on-one meeting, mentorship, advice, serious talks. 

The third quadrant: “If you have any control over when a routine informational meeting happens, do it after lunch,” says McGeorge. “This is a meeting where it’s usually just a check in from others, but not necessarily problem solving. " Schedule status meetings now. May be some emails. 

The last quadrant: "At the end of the day, when your mental agility and alertness drop, this is the time to do low-impact, high-intensity work." Preparing for meetings tomorrow, getting change of clothing ready, setting yourself up for success the next day.

At first, I thought I couldn't possibly get things done in just 8 hours, or in this specific chunks. Would I have enough time for emails, others. But it turns out by getting the most important money making, high impact, high intensity tasks out of the way, I feel less stressed, because I didn't procrastinate. I also feel more successful, having prioritized high importance work. 

Foraging

 Sea Forager (book) - The Sea Forager’s Guide to the Northern California Coast

Forager's Cocktails: Botanical Mixology with Fresh, Natural Ingredients Book by Amy Zavatto

Warning: even the best forager, experts sometimes get their pick wrong and end up being poisoned or dead. So definitely only use this as information, inspiration, only do this if you have done your research, know what you are doing, or hire an expert guide.