If you'd told me, when I first went overseas in 1981, that in a bit more than 25 years, I'd be able to sit in my underwear at a flat screen in my living room and plan a vacation with a mouse, I'd have probably thought you were nuts. Maybe that's because I wouldn't have been able to picture myself as a 48 year old or collaborating with a mouse. Moreover, I'm pretty sure I would not have understood about connections to multiple websites that can contain more information than travel brochures could've ever aspired to.
I am fairly confident that I would also not have been able to fathom reserving hotel rooms at the YMCA or buying bus tickets simply by typing a Mastercard number. We just did a bit of clicking for 15-day Euroline bus passes that'll begin later this month. Although the whole trip will last three weeks, we were able to squeeze a majority of the longer hauls into that time frame. We will purchase shorter segments like Munich to Salzburg and Zurich to Munich as single tickets from there.
How'd we ever get by without the Internet?