Your cheap flight ticket is on your hands now. I said cheap because we usually book the flight months before the trip. The next thing to do is planning your trip. Sometimes, creating itinerary is so much fun that you'll be more excited even before going to your destination trip. Thus booking your lodging is one of the trip plan. 

I'm not really into culinary when traveling because of the budget. The higher the cost of living of a country, the more I will try to tighten the budget by cooking our meals. But occasionally I try some local foods to satisfy my curiosity.  

I started to love exploring places when joining URAL, an extracurricular activity in my senior high school focusing on nature and environmentalist. As time goes by, I love taking photos of places I visited as well. At first, it is just to record the detail of the trip. Taking photo is much easier and quicker than writing down the information we get while we explored.

Airport, terminal and train station will be the starting line before we travel. Maybe they are just stopover places and we don’t take photos of them. For example, KLIA Kuala Lumpur International Airport, I’ve been there many times as a stopover before continuing to other destination countries (I am Air Asia cheap flight hunter). There is no special feeling for this place other than as a stopover.

11 hours of transit in KLIA before continuing the flight to Amsterdam (2016)

Empat hari ini senyum melebar tertampak di wajah saya. Ada perasaan campur aduk, seperti sedang melakukan long trip ke sebuah kota atau negara. Padahal saya hanya di rumah saja, duduk di kursi atau rebahan di kasur sambil menatap layar yang hanya berukuran sebesar 11 inch. Lalu apa yang membuat rasa kangen traveling ini terobati hanya dengan menatap layar laptop? Tentu saja karena menonton film!

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It's been a tough year for all of us. Especially for someone who likes to go outside and explores around. I talked about my self of course. But now I will tell you a story of my last trip with my little brother, Nibras, the boy I adore so much. My sisters and I called him Ibas since he was born because his name is uncommon, and it is easier to call him Ibas.  

After getting two courses of travel writing from Trinity, one month ago, I decided to take an English writing course at LBI UI. The reasons are I want to be better on writing English and to create a good travel journal in English, especially for destinations in Indonesia. In this time of pandemic, I believe we cannot travel overseas and can only visit domestic places. 

Seminggu lalu saya menyuruh Bre mengambil cuti satu hari kerja di minggu pertama April. Kami berencana pelesiran ke luar kota yang tidak jauh dari Jakarta. Nggak ada tujuan khusus sih, yang penting keluar rumah. Pernah terpikir untuk ke Sukabumi, piknik lucu di depan danau Situ Gunung. Tapi saya sudah tiga kali ke sana. 

Menyusun itinerary adalah hal yang paling mendebarkan sebelum perjalanan, setidaknya bagi saya. Sama rasanya saat berburu tiket promo, menyusun rencana perjalanan juga. Namun sedetil apapun rencana yang kita buat, pasti akan ada banyak perubahan. Kalau tidak banyak berubah berarti Anda ikut agen perjalanan yang semua destinasi nya sudah jelas di awal. Di sini saya akan beberkan rute perjalanan keliling Eropa tahun 2016 lalu. Buat siapa sih? Tentunya untuk saya baca sendiri karena saya pelupa.