| Do you love to travel? You might be surprised to | | | | Nevertheless, booking all your own reservations can |
| learn that not everyone does. Some people enter | | | | be a hassle. When you try to find the lowest prices |
| certain occupations to fulfill a desire to travel, but | | | | on plane tickets, rental cars, motels, dining |
| after years of the same routine, suddenly they | | | | establishments and entertainment, you often wonder |
| decide that they'd prefer to stay home. | | | | if you really got the best prices available. By the time |
| What about truck drivers? Most of them choose | | | | you make 20 or 30 telephone calls to check on |
| trucking because of the freedom they feel when not | | | | pricing, you are already frazzled. |
| confined to a desk or an office. But what happens | | | | The easiest way to make reservations might be to |
| after fifteen or twenty years on the job. Suddenly | | | | phone a travel agent. Sometimes such agents can |
| many of them can't stand being away from their | | | | get you about as good a deal as you can find |
| homes and families anymore, and they wish they had | | | | yourself, and you don't have the dogfights about |
| begun working in a different profession. The same | | | | travel plans with your loved ones. A single telephone |
| thing can happen to people in the airlines industry, or | | | | call to a travel agent can get you your |
| any other profession that requires the employees to | | | | entertainment, plane tickets, rental car, motel and |
| be gone for several days at a time, several times a | | | | travel itinerary without any additional provocation. |
| year. | | | | If you don't wish to use a travel agent, you can still |
| Not long ago a computer programmer stated that he | | | | get all of your needs taken care of with a single |
| applied for and obtained a promotion to system's | | | | phone call or online signup. Airlines, motels and online |
| analyst. He looked forward to the new job because | | | | discount travel businesses can often take care of |
| it allowed him to travel out of state four to eight | | | | most of the details for you nearly as well as a travel |
| times a year. He could not do that as a programmer. | | | | agent. At least they can find the same travel tickets, |
| What happened? After a couple of years, he decided | | | | rental cars, entertainment and much more. |
| that he hated it, and took a voluntary demotion back | | | | You can, however, still book everything yourself if |
| to a simple programmer so that he no longer had to | | | | you prefer. One of the ways to get the best motel |
| travel out of town. | | | | deals is to wait until you get into town to call a motel. |
| Still, the aversion to travel does not slam everyone. | | | | As long as there are no conventions or other big |
| For some, no matter how often they go out of | | | | events that might book the motel up, you may be |
| town, it isn't often enough. One noteworthy thing is | | | | able to get a large discount on the price of the motel |
| that some people love to max out the business | | | | room. The reason being that if a motel isn't filled to |
| expense account when it involves work-related | | | | capacity, the management would rather rent a room |
| travel, are extremely conservative when it comes to | | | | out to you at a discount than to have the room |
| spending their own bucks while on vacation. Suddenly | | | | stand vacant all night. If you plan to attempt such a |
| the motels drop from four star to three, and meals | | | | transaction, check online before you travel. You'll |
| change from steak dinners to bean burritos. People | | | | want to see if there are any conventions, circuses or |
| who insist on first class plane tickets for work-related | | | | other large events that would prevent you from |
| travel often decide that coach is great when they | | | | finding any vacant room at all when you arrive at |
| have to charge it to their credit cards for personal | | | | your destination. |
| travel. | | | | |