The plan trap

After visiting 5 embassies, googling the whole web and literally pleading for help to people, I was going to write a long post complaining about how it's impossible to find accurate or at least non contradicting information about visas, permissions and conditions of stay for the Schengen countries, and then I realized I was getting caught a little too much in this whole planning thing.

Maybe I went through a pre-travel paranoid syndrome, or maybe after preparing this trip for so long I'm getting the need for everything to come up 'right'. The more you plan something, the more it has to work 'perfectly', right? ... And this is how you get caught in the plan trap, which mercilessly crushes your soul with disappointment when you realize the world is not following your perfectly planned schedule, which is one of the reasons why I don't like to plan too much.

Welcome to my journey

Finally, after over a year of some pseudo-planning, lots of work and seriously saving money, today I bought my plane ticket! The time has come for the pseudo-plan to start coming to life

I leave on the 7th of June at 7:55 pm from Caracas and arrive in Madrid the 8th at 10:50 am. At the travel agency they told me that the schedule for this particular flight to Madrid varies a lot, so you could give or take 3 hours (southern time error margin)

Hopefully I'll document my journey on this blog with some words, images and maybe even videos. I'm also using some of my web programming (geek) skills to create some experiments for this site, like the Itinerary you see at the top of the right panel, which you can also click to see the posts related to those times and places. I don't know if that will be useful at all, but at least it's fun to experiment. I'll try to keep my itinerary up to date so whoever is interested can keep track of my journey

Some other stuff coming soon as this is a work in progress