Max is a long time volunteer turned employee for mindyourmind as a Youth Outreach Assistant. He enjoys blogging, cats, and the state of Utah. Check him out on Twitter: @maxamilli

Have you ever felt stressed out having to travel? How could you not be?

There are so many elements that contribute to a stressful environment  when going places. Making sure that you have everything with you that it  doesn’t get lost or stolen, catching your train/flight/bus on time,  figuring out what you’re going to do when you arrive, it’s a difficult  process to go through. But it doesn’t have to be stressful; there are  ways to deal with stress when it comes to exploring the great wide  world.

Later on in the summer I will be taking a journey to Germany, and I  really have no idea what to expect. I don’t speak German very well at  all (no matter what I say), and I’m going to have to meet many of German  people that I don’t know at all and are going to want to carry on  conversations with me (thanks, grandma). But thanks to finding out about  this website: http://iamat.org/editorials.cfm I feel a little better  about making my way overseas.

One of the best tips I saw while reading through their package of tips  and ways to downsize travel stress, was to do research about the place  you’re visiting. For me, finding new things out about a place can help  to decrease the worry around it, because if I understand it then I won’t  be afraid of what it’s all about.

So hopefully this website gives you the right resources to de-stress  when it comes to travelling, and please let us know in the comments if  they look like good ideas, and where your favorite place to travel to  is!

Here’s the link again: http://iamat.org/editorials.cfm

- by Max