When it comes to travel, it’s easy to get stuck in the “I’m too busy” trap. Sure, work takes up the majority of our time and scheduling vacation days can be a hassle. But as writer and avid traveler Matt Kepnes explains, changing the way you travel (weekend trips instead of several days, for example) opens up a whole world of possibilities.

Time. There just never seems to be enough of it. I mean, it’s already October. Didn’t we just celebrate the start of 2012? I feel like I was just ringing in the New Year in Thailand weeks ago! Time moves too fast (and every year it seems to just move faster)!

Time is something people always tell me they don’t have enough of and is one of the main reasons why they don’t travel as much as they would like. (Money is also an issue but I’ll cover that in depth in the coming weeks.)

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