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RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version)

GROUP TOUR PERSONALITIES: THE WINDBAG The windbag never stops talking. To fellow travellers. To the tour guide and director. To anyone fortunate to have been born with ears. Then those long-complicated questions with a microphone in hand on the tour bus. Digging into the minutiae and the weeds with questions of importance only to theContinue reading “RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version)”

RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version)

GROUP TOUR PERSONALITIES: THE COMPLAINER There may be a fine line between a realist and a complainer. Reality can be unpleasant and deserves commentary. And the deeper the swath of reality in the tour group it’s not complaining but a commonly held perception of reality. It can be a “team builder” in corporate double speakContinue reading “RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version)”

RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version) GROUP TOUR PERSONALITIES: THE INTROVERT

GROUP TOUR PERSONALITIES: THE INTROVERT Yes, the quiet ones often demeaned as timid and aloof lacking social graces. Introverts are drawn to the inner world of thought and feeling and recharge their batteries by being alone. Introverts do not thirst interaction. And it could be that introverts are possibly extroverts but for a limited periodContinue reading “RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version) GROUP TOUR PERSONALITIES: THE INTROVERT”

RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version)

Group Tour Personalities: The Extrovert Extroverts are easy to spot. Friendly. Willing to approach and chat you up. Not so much they are innately friendly, but they simply can’t help themselves. Not to be exalted over introverts. Just a different personality. Moderate extroverts are fine with me and thank goodness on this tour and theContinue reading “RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version)”

RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version)

GROUP TOUR: PERSONALITIES IN THE MIX Some group tours are for specific groups, members some of which are known by each other but most are an assemblage of strangers. For example I went to Southeast Asia with university alumnae the majority on this trip from Canadian universities. I did not know any of the 16Continue reading “RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version)”

RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version)

ON A GROUP TOUR: WHO IS LEADING THE TROOPS Group tours are guided by an itinerary designed by the tour company. A schedule of activities is in the itinerary and a timeframe for execution. This is not to say every minute is planned. There are often slots of free time to pursue your own activities.Continue reading “RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version)”

RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version)

ON A GROUP TOUR: IN THE ARMY NOW Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia and Cambodia in four days. 8 flights in 14 days. All this is an ambitious undertaking. In joining a tour group you lose a great deal of independence. You are a prisoner of an itinerary. Up at 4:30 a.m. to catch that ferry. AContinue reading “RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version)”

RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version)

WHY THESE DESTINATIONS? Being a dedicated Europhile feeling most at home particularly in Portugal and Greece I have been willingly absconded to Southeast Asia by a “significant birthday” present and no I am not referring to 65…God no! Being an “Ugly Canadian” but not along the 1958 novel “The Ugly American” it is not theContinue reading “RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version)”

RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version)

GETTING THERE Not brimming with excitement facing a 15 ½ hour flight from Toronto to Hong Kong with a two-hour layover waiting for a 3 ½ hour flight to Singapore. The outboard flight and connecting flights to Singapore on Cathay Pacific one of the three best airlines in world as awarded in by Skytrax inContinue reading “RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version)”