There is no perfect time to go, so go.

Accepting that there is no perfect time to travel is the first and most important step to taking a trip. If it’s not one thing that gets in the way it’s another. A lot of those “things” are totally fictional — made up by your brain. They don’t even exist!

For example, I bought a sofa sleeper because I imagined I would have these overnight guests in my house when I moved in. I’ve had two in the last twelve years. TWO. I could have put those people up in a $300 a night hotel for the extra amount of money I spent on that couch!

I bought my furniture around the idea that I’d have friends and family visiting all the time. Stupidly, it didn’t occur to me that my family lives mostly in the city where I live and my friends live in way more glamorous places, so I go visit them. So I have this huge couch in my small living room and it’s all scratched up because I run into it with my wheelchair all the time.

Making decisions based on future scenarios that don’t even exist can be prudent sometimes, but when it comes to travel, forget it. There will ALWAYS be something you won’t be able to attend or do at home when you are out of town. Do you really want to skip a trip to Europe because your kid might have a soccer game that weekend — NEXT YEAR?

There will never be a perfect time at work, at school, at home, at church. Why? Because it’s impossible to predict the future and virtually impossible that the numerous schedules you have will all line up.

I remember when I was in fifth grade, I threw a violent fit about going up to Northern Wisconsin the first weekend in September because “Jon’s sleepover party will be that weekend. It ALWAYS is that weekend! (It had been that weekend for two consecutive years.)

I got my way and we never went up North that fall. Jon never had his party either, so I didn’t go anywhere.

The reality of you going on a trip has a 100% possibility if you decide to do it and put in on your calendar. It has a 0% possibility if everything else goes on the calendar first. Take the first step, and start planning now!