Travel 2025: Use your wild cards, and deploy them wisely
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The Man Who Pays His Way: Follow David and Noah in treating yourself (and your travel partner, if you have one). Kathmandu airport is a place where travel dreams come to an abrupt end. Every now and then, a fortunate traveller will discover somewhere wonderful. Inevitably, though, you have to leave and return to real life. And for many people who discover the joy of high-altitude life in Nepal, that rude reawakening happens when you join the endless, straggling queues at the capital’s inadequate airport. But at least you can meet fellow travellers.
David and Noah, young men from Salzburg, have been working furiously for three years so that they can treat themselves to two years of endless travel. They were due to meet up with family from Austria somewhere in southeast Asia for Christmas. No doubt that rendezvous worked out, because they have thought a lot about the trip of their lifetimes.
Assuming you share roughly the same outlook on making the most of a journey, travelling with a partner can prove extremely rewarding. But naturally your list of places and experiences will be different to mine. David and Noah recognise this by each having three “wild cards”: a particular destination that the other will honour. Noah wanted to go diving in Egypt’s Red Sea, so they did; David is determined to visit Easter Island, despite the substantial dent it will make in their travel budget.
Which set me to thinking: we should all have our wild cards, and the start of a new year is an excellent time to decide on your trip trio for 2025. If you have a partner, you can reveal your choices and start planning on New Year’s Day. And if you travel alone, make them the three roving resolutions that you are determined to fulfil before the end of the year.
