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THE PRE-TRAVEL BRIEFING

One trip, read before you take it.

Almost everything that can be decided about a trip can be decided before it starts, at no cost and under no pressure. This is that work done properly, on your actual itinerary, by someone whose job is to look at it the way somebody else might.

WHAT IT COVERS

What is already visible

The trip as it can be assembled from outside: an announced appearance, a published agenda, an attendee list, a post from someone else in the party. Most of what makes a trip predictable was not posted by the traveler.

Where the pattern is fixed

The hours and movements that repeat, and the ones that could be varied at no cost. Departure carries the same exposure as arrival with one addition: by then anyone paying attention has had days to learn the pattern.

The decisions worth making now

Ground transport, lodging, the room itself, the route in and the route out, and who is told what and when. Decided in advance, in writing, rather than at a curb with luggage.

One briefing

A working session to walk the trip together, and the written brief to carry. It is built to be read by anyone travelling with you, because a plan only one person knows is not a plan.

WHAT IT IS NOT

There is no on-call during the trip. This is one itinerary, read before you go, and it ends when the briefing is delivered. Being reachable through a trip is the Travel Retainer, which is a different arrangement at a different price. If you travel often enough that you are weighing the two, say so and the answer is usually neither of them.

WHAT IT COSTS

$850

One named itinerary. Briefings need lead time, so a trip three weeks out is worth more than the same trip three days out.

INQUIRE

Request the briefing

Send the trip and I will confirm whether the timing works before anything is charged. Briefings need lead time, so earlier is better than closer.

Your information is used only to respond to your inquiry. I respond personally within one business day.

Travel is one dimension of a wider profile. For the whole reading, scored and sequenced:

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