5 travel resolutions for 2019 that you would love sticking to

Make 2019 a year of travel, because most of the other things in life can wait. Well, travel can wait too, but we believe that all good things should be grabbed before they lose their sheen. With a new year right around the corner, we, as a race, will be making resolutions; while most of them are lost in the first 15 days of January, travel resolutions are such that you will not want to break them. So yes, here are some travel resolution goals for the year.

Give yourself some TA
We are advocates of self-care and believe that there is more to it than salon sessions. In 2019, let us take a step further ahead and gift ourselves a fixed travel allowance (TA) every month. While a number of salaried people have it as a part of their pay, skip all that paperwork and planning and cut off a tiny portion of your pay every month. An amount good enough to give you a trip every three months seems like an easy and great start.
Travel alone
Yes, humans are social animals, and there is little joy in staying aloof. Yet, the thrill of a lonely road that also has to be tread alone is not to be missed. Get away on a whim this year, do not ask for company or help in planning one. You will come back feeling more independent than ever, stronger than ever. Calm is a superpower, experience it.
Get into a caravan
More than self-care, we are big-time advocates of caravans. While caravans are slowly coming to fore in India as well, a trip across the USA in one of those vintage VW vans is the stuff travel resolutions are made of. Plan one; give a new turn to a new year.

Leave your camera home
Go on a trip that has nothing to offer to Instagram or any other social media channel, leave your cameras and phones home. Let it be an old-school trip that is best spent in roaming the mountains, laying on the beach, dozing off under stars, or one of those jungle safaris. Soak it all, let your eyes feast, camera lenses can wait. Better still, leave your laptops too.

Go offbeat for real
When we write offbeat, we mean really off the grid. So yes, look further than Cambodia, and head to places as far-flung as Iceland, Mongolia, and even Antarctica if you really are that ardent. Closer home, we have Assam, Shekhawati in Rajasthan, Junagadh in Gujarat, Orissa’s Puri, and Kalimpong. Plus, there are so many valleys in Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand that all that you need to have an offbeat experience is a whim.