About This Site

Travel planning is often framed as a list of recommendations. This site takes a different approach.

Tripplan.org exists to make planning decisions explicit: tradeoffs, constraints, and consequences. It focuses on frameworks rather than itineraries, and on reasoning rather than advice.

The goal isn't to tell you where to go or what to do. It's to help you think through the decisions you'll face - so you can make choices that fit your situation, not someone else's.

About the Author

Michael develops decision frameworks for travel planning, focusing on tradeoffs rather than recommendations. These frameworks are applied in professional settings, including cultural travel planning, but are presented here independently of any product or itinerary.

The approach here comes from two decades of helping travelers make decisions. Not "go here" or "do this" advice, but structured thinking about the actual choices involved: How many days in each place? When to book and when to wait? What's the real tradeoff between DIY planning and getting help?

What You'll Find Here

• Planning Frameworks - Structured approaches to common decisions
• Comparisons - Weighing options systematically, not by opinion
• Decision Helpers - When to choose X vs Y, with reasoning
• Checklists - Pre-trip preparation that actually matters
• Itinerary Logic - Why certain sequences work better than others

The Approach

Most travel planning advice is disguised opinion. "You must visit X" really means "I liked X." That's fine, but it doesn't help you figure out whether X makes sense for your trip.

This site tries to do something different: show you the reasoning. What are the actual tradeoffs? What constraints matter? What changes the calculation? When you understand the structure of a decision, you can adapt it to your situation.

The frameworks here come from experience - not from researching travel blogs, but from actually helping people plan trips for over twenty years. That doesn't make them right for everyone. But it does mean they've been tested against real situations, real constraints, and real outcomes.

Why This Site Exists

There's no shortage of travel content online. But most of it falls into two categories: "Top 10" listicles or "everything you need to know" mega-guides. Neither helps much when you're trying to make a specific decision.

This site exists to fill that gap. Not with more recommendations, but with clearer thinking about the decisions themselves. The goal is practical clarity: understand your options, see the tradeoffs, make a choice you can stand behind.