My trusty che-che

Ehh…. Maybe so except for itinery planning where she will practically drag one around to the places, somehow forgetting that her parents are getting older each year and not as feeble as before. 

I have often been told that because she travels so often so she knows how to get from one place to another. I beg to differ, feels that as long as one can read english and one is daring and observant and willing to open mouth to ask for help, it does make travelling easy. (Also, it’s not like she’s been to so many countries.) Then again, she possess the ability and curiosity since young. Whenever we travel, I always need to get two maps; two brochures, two of everything because being inquisitive as she is she loves to look at maps and observe the things around her. One map will definitely be destroyed and crumpled with the constant flipping it open and close (Yup! At a young age of 5-6), so the other serves as for me to scan once we get home.  

Orientation

Her sense of direction is as good as mine if not better. 

Travelling with her alone

Last July was the first time I travelled with her as a young adult with 2 luggages. If not for the ‘intend to buy a lot of rubbish and snacks home’, one luggage is definitely more than enough for us. 

Anyway during that trip she was smart enough to suggest to me ‘leave Aunty Mio’s gifts in the snacks luggage so we don’t have to open it until we meet her at the end of the trip’. Then we were travelling from cities to cities by Shinkansen and moving in and out from different hotels. That made a lot of sense. 

Her being alone in the US

Tho it wasn’t for a very long stint in the US, her being independent and directional smart I was assured to leave her alone. 

She went on two overnight trips with her friends and trusted that she can take care of herself.

On the way back

On the way back we had pack up stuffs to lug home. And she was smart enough to suggest to me that we can fill up one luggage, even estimating the possible weight increase one may get in the airport. We weighed our luggage in the room and stopped at 2-3 lbs short of the weight limit. My goodness! It weighed exactly in the airport. That goes to show the weighing scale is tampered with at the airport. 

Once after that we fill up the other 2 luggages and then finally the last luggage before dumping the rests in the 2 extra bags we have