Here are the steps:
1. visit Lonely Planet to choose a place to visit. Spend some time browsing through the world, and pick somewhere you passionately want to visit.
2. go to Travelocity to find a flight, hotel, transportation, etc.
3. Feel free to use other travel sites as well (sometimes countries have tourism board websites to help travelers).
4. Create a summary (in Microsoft Word) of your planned trip, making sure to include the following items:
- Where you will be going
- Flight plans (how will you get there from South Bend?)
- Itinerary - detailed description of your plans for each day (hotel/hostel stay, daytime plans, food plans, etc)
- pictures to help tell the story of your planned trip (hotel, locations, local culture, etc)
- make sure your trip is at least a week long
- think outside the box: try planning a stay at a youth hostel or going camping!
- plan the trip as if you are just out of college and wanting to travel before you start your real job.
- be adventurous!
Have fun with this. Just make sure I have the printed summary of your trip by May 29th.
