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Caution to the wind or planning safely? Which way should we travel?
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[QUOTE="dougfitz, post: 1169099, member: 10982"] I find this a strange notion. The proposition seems to rely on some link between booking accommodation and actually planning. Such a link might exist, but it is far from clear that making extensive bookings is actually useful planning. More, if one engages a travel company to do this, one outsources the 'success' of one's pilgrimage to a third party. Clearly it can work, but it doesn't make it careful planning. It is possible to analyse this in either of two frameworks, and I have worked in organizations that have used one or the other. The military framework layers are typically strategic, operational and tactical. In business models, the layers have the same names, but a different order, strategic, tactical and operational. One way or another, it amounts to the same thing. Taking the former, your planning thinking might be: a. strategic: I wish to undertake a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela to venerate the saint in the traditions of my faith as a Catholic. To achieve this, I will need to: [LIST] [*]get myself to Spain, or somewhere close [*]undertake the pilgrimage, supporting myself along the way [*]return home. [/LIST] b. operational [LIST] [*]Strategic objective 1: [LIST] [*]from Australia, the only practical travel method to Europe generally is by air [*]but from an entry point in Europe, there are other options, such as train, bus, or hiring a car. [*]what accommodation will I need during and at the end of my travels. [/LIST] [*]Strategic objective 2: [LIST] [*]When will I be able to save enough to remain self-sufficient for the journey, or should I consider doing a shorter camino that I can afford now. [*]What are the ways and means that I will use for this? Will I travel solely on foot, or should I contemplate that I will need to use other transport? Will I rely on finding albergues or do I want or need to consider other forms of accommodation? [*]If I have special food requirements, will these be available on the route that I am taking. [*]Do I have enough information about my accommodation needs to contemplate booking everything, or just some of the journey? Will I get more information about this while I am walking that would change my thinking about what and when to book? [/LIST] [*]Strategic objective 3 [LIST] [*]Will I extend my travels, before or after my pilgrimage, to take advantage of being in Europe. [*]If I do, I need to reset my strategic objectives, and re-evaluate my operational plan. [*]Otherwise there are similar operational considerations to Strategic objective 1. [/LIST] [/LIST] c: tactical (assuming one is now undertaking strategic objective 2 as a walking pilgrim using a mix of albergue and other accommodation that hasn't been booked) [LIST] [*]how far do I want to walk tomorrow, and how long will it take? [*]do I think that I will arrive somewhere by mid-afternoon that might have accommodation, and if it doesn't, there will still be time to walk onto the next village? Is the next village sufficiently close that it will take an hour or so to do that, or is it further away, and would be difficult to get to in a reasonable time? [*]my friend, Sarah, has been walking with blisters, and I want to walk with her and stay at the same place, but she cannot tell me how far she thinks she can go tomorrow. I think it is possible she will have to take a bus or taxi if she wants to get to Santiago in time for her flight home. [*]and on it goes. [/LIST] So to suggest that someone is not planning their camino carefully just because they don't have accommodation bookings is clearly ridiculous. More, it is not 'throwing caution to the winds' if one doesn't have an accommodation plan. At the tactical level, in the framework I have outlined, instead of an (operational level) accommodation plan around which one forms each days (tactical level) temporal plan, one can clearly reverse this, and have a plan like this: [LIST] [*]each day I will leave the albergue by 0730, unless breakfast is provided, when I will leave after breakfast. [*]if I haven't had breakfast, I will stop at the first open bar/cafe for that, otherwise I will walk for a minimum of two hours before stopping for second breakfast. [*]after second breakfast, I will walk for a minimum of another two hours before taking a longer break for lunch. [*]after lunch, after at least two hours walking, I will begin enquiring about the availability of a bed for the night, starting at the first albergue in a town. [*]contingency arrangements: [LIST] [*]if I arrive at a town after 90 minutes, and the next town is more than an hours walk further on, I will stop where I am. [*]I can add a fourth walking session to the day if it means reaching somewhere I particularly want to stay at, or I haven't found accommodation. [*]if I have walked on after not finding accommodation, and there is still nowhere to stay, I will ring to find accommodation, and take a taxi, returning the next day to recommence where I stopped walking. [/LIST] [/LIST] Again, it is clear that suggesting that someone hasn't planned carefully because they haven't booked their whole journey seems just a bit silly. I think that it is clear that in a broader understanding about planning than 'do I have accommodation bookings', the dichotomy presented by this headline clearly is a false one, and does little to help us understand what the advantages or disadvantages inherent in different approaches that might be taken. [/QUOTE]
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