- Be open to new experiences but take calculated risks – live to play another day
- Travel quickly through expensive countries and slowly through less expensive countries
- Stray often from the beaten path. Be travelers, not tourists. Seek out authentic experiences.
- Make friends of both locals and fellow travelers
- Don’t exhaust yourselves – take a break and spend a week on a beach doing nothing when feeling fatigued
- Lose weight (for Mustafa)
- Take lots of photographs
- Look for business opportunities (an unidentified or ill-served market with unmet demand that we have the skills, knowledge and network to satisfy profitably)
- Appreciate the breathtaking diversity of our glorious planet, be it natural, cultural, philosophical, artistic or other
- Become a better writer