Product Description

Where would your dream take you if you had a whole year to just travel? But perhaps you’re thinking, "if I only knew how to start planning my adventure!" This detailed "how-to" guide will get you moving from the dreaming to the doing in no time at all.

Included is step-by-step, real-life information on planning the trip you’ve always wanted to take -- along with generous doses of humor and advice on topics such as:

* How to pay for a year away from home * How to unravel all your current commitments – to family, work, and organizations * How to plan on the fly and enjoy every day * How to pack in 3 small drawers and 24" of closet space – for two! * How to handle the emergencies that crop up along the way * And the most asked question: How to enjoy your traveling companion on a 24/7 basis!

Once you’ve decided to "leave it all behind", Live Your Road Trip Dream takes you along on an action-packed, whirlwind tour of the authors’ trip – just to help you visualize what months on the road might really be like, and to offer a glimpse into how decisions and discoveries are made along the way.

This is the ultimate road trip planning guide.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #481970 in Books
• Published on: 2004-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 276 pages

Christine Delsol, San Francisco Chronicle, December, 2004
…the authors pack their book with advice on making your dream happen.

The Villager, June, 2004
"The book that launched a thousand road trips ...see what (they) learned on the road trip of a lifetime."

Wilsonville Spokesman, July 28, 2004
"...offers ... advice and instructions on how anyone with the free time can put things on hold ... and go traveling."

Customer Reviews

From Planning the Dream to Putting Rubber to the Road
Before even finishing "Live Your Road Trip Dream" I had moved to the computer and was making plans for an extended summer trip visiting all the lighthouses standing guard over Lake Michigan's shore line. Phil and Carol White have found the perfect balance in crystallizing the dream, planning the "plot," and journaling the journey.

In this second edition of their award winning, how to - planning guide, the Whites have included new sections with suggestions for taking sabbaticals, working on the road, and ideas for using the trip for teaching your children.

I have often heard that half the fun is in the planning. The White's have divided their book into two parts. "Part One" begins with helps for the reader to determine and put into action the steps for making their own personal dream trip.

Detailed suggestions for financing the trip, provision for your home, cars, and family responsibilities are covered in this section. The pointers on choosing your traveling home, planning your route, nailing down the details, and keeping in touch with the family are comprehensive and practical. Carol offers amazing insight into some decisions that may come up along the way as well as anticipating how to handle possible emergencies.

In "Part Two" Carol shares journals of their journey pointing out the places they visited, highlights of the trip, the ambiance of some of the hotels where they stayed, and items of historical interest. They visited all of the 48 contiguous states, 43 National Parks within these states, and many monuments and museums of historical significance.
Phil added some "Phil-osophies" regarding the sport halls of fame, including golf, some games they watched, and a man's view of many of their stops along the way.

The resource list, the check off lists worksheets, and sample itineraries in the appendix are invaluable.

Carol's writing is engaging and positive, and resonates with a contagious spirit which instills in the reader the motivation to move from a dream, to a plan, to making that dream become a reality.

A jumpstart for the ultimate road trip!
"Live Your Road Trip Dream" provides comprehensive, well-rounded coverage of topics that need to be addressed when embarking on such a grand adventure. While the authors' experience was with RVing, the book supplies helpful info to anyone planning a cross-country trek.

The book is part practical how-to, don't-forget-to nitty gritty, and part journal jottings of the travelers' take on one U.S. locale after another; you can feel the curiosity, exhilaration, and even the exhaustion(!) of their undertaking. Their lodging was part RV, part hotel, which illustrates the fact that a person could realize a similar venture with one or the other...or a mixture of both. A long coast-to-coast adventure requires planning as well as money, and the authors don't leave out this fact. You don't just pick up and go. This book will help you plan it all out.

It's fun to read about Phil & Carol's journey; if you haven't been bitten by the travel bug before, you will be once you read this book!

The book is awesome
The book is a awe inspiring piece of literature. I enjoyed every single word. The words are perfect. I enjoyed every sentence. There should be more books like this. Cost effective advice