How to Balance Physical Challenge and Recovery During Travel
Active travel can be incredibly rewarding. Hiking mountain trails, cycling between towns, walking 25,000 steps through a new city, or spending several days kayaking gives you a very different relationship with a destination than simply watching it through a tour-bus window. The problem is that enthusiasm can easily outrun recovery. A demanding itinerary might look realistic when every activity is viewed separately. Combine long flights, jet lag, hotel changes, early mornings, unfamiliar food, heat, altitude, and several physically intense days, ...
