How ChatGPT Helped Plan My Trip and Cured My Traveler’s Indecision

AI is a massive collection of information accessible to us in mere seconds, but nothing beats talking to people.

The views from the ferry ride from Seattle to Bainbridge Island were worth the cost of the boat ride alone. Laura Yuen/Minneapolis Star Tribune/TNS

By Laura Yuen From Star Tribune

MINNEAPOLIS—Planning paralysis still had me in its clutches days before my family and I left for an October break trip to Seattle. By that time, we had already booked our flights, an Airbnb and a rental car. But the guts of the vacation—what to do, see and eat—were still undecided. My itinerary was a hauntingly blank abyss on a computer screen.