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Live Your Road Trip Dream

Name: Live Your Road Trip Dream
Author: Phil S White
ISBN: 9780975292839

by Phil S White, Carol White

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Overview

The Ultimate Road Trip Planning Guide

Do you want to take that trip of a lifetime, but can't figure out how to "leave it all behind?" Live Your Road Trip Dream: Travel for a year for the cost of staying home will inspire you to turn your personal travel dream into reality.

This information-packed "how-to" guide will step you through everything you need to know to make your own adventure of a lifetime possible. The Whites pack humor, wisdom and sound advice into this entertaining, yet practical book.

Live Your Road Trip Dream tackles such questions as how to pay for a year away from home, how to unravel all your current commitments, how to plan on the fly and enjoy every day, 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.

The second half of the book takes you along on a whirlwind tour of the authors' trip - not because they think that what they did is important (everyone has their own dream), but to help you visualize what months away from home might really be like and to offer a glimpse into how decisions and discoveries are made along the way.

Whether your dream takes you on a road trip across the United States or on a sailboat trip around the world, Live Your Road Trip Dream is a "must-have" planning tool. Live Your Road Trip Dream will change your vision from dreaming to doing.

Synopsis

Where would your dream take you if you had a whole year to just travel?

Have you always dreamed of taking that long trip - but don t know how to "get it all together" to actually get out the door?

What s really keeping you from living your dream?

This detailed "how-to" guide will get you moving from the dreaming to the doing to live your idea of the perfect trip.

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. Topics covered include:

How to pay for a year away from home
What to do with your house and cars while you re gone
How to pack for a year in 3 small drawers and 24" of closet space - for two!
How to unravel all your current commitments - to family, work, and organizations - and meet everyone s needs
How to handle the emergencies that crop up along the way. Broken ankle?- just keep moving; car crash? - you ll work it out
And the most asked question: How to stand your traveling companion on a 24/7 basis for 365 days!

Once you ve decided to "leave it all behind" and be a kid again, Live Your Road Trip Dream takes you along on an action-packed, whirlwind tour of the author s trip - just so you ll know what it is really like to be on the road for an extended period of time.

The White s decided that the time had come for them to live their road trip dream. Once they were off on their adventure, people peppered them with questions, not so much about what they were doing (everyone has their own dream!), but about how they actually made it happen. It was with the encouragement of want-to-be traveler s everywhere that Live Your Road Trip Dream was created.

Mark Sedenquist

…an excellent primer for those considering hitting the road for an extended road trip, although the lessons could just as easily be applied to any multi-month vacation.

About the Author, Phil S White

The Whites have had the good fortune to retire from the everyday work world, and now help others make their dreams happen. The trip detailed in their award-winning book, Live Your Road Trip Dream, was a year in the talking, learning, researching and planning stages, and a year in the execution of the actual adventure. During Phil’s 26-year career, he was the small-business owner of a retail men’s clothing store. Carol comes from the other end of the sales and marketing spectrum, having retired from Lucent Technologies, in 1999. Her 35 years in the computing and telecommunications fields with Lucent and AT&T have gained her a wealth of experience. Both Phil and Carol are graduates of Portland State University, Portland, Oregon. Live Your Road Trip Dream – Travel for a year for the cost of staying home has become the ultimate “how-to” road trip planning guide and has won numerous industry awards, including the Publisher’s Marketing Association’s prestigious Benjamin Franklin Award. Phil and Carol have presented seminars of various lengths on this topic in such diverse settings as AARP’s Life@50+ national convention, The Great North American RV Rally, bookstores, community centers, AAA, athletic clubs, and community college adult education classes. In 2007, the Whites were named as National Spokespeople for the Recreation Vehicle Industry Association (RVIA) to represent the baby boomer audience. Carol is also a frequent speaker on publishing topics for aspiring authors. She has spoken at PMA-University in 2005 and 2008, to the Bay Area Publishers, and on several occasions to NWABP and PNBA. Articles about the Whites and their experiences have appeared in many publications including USA Today.com, The Boston Globe, The San Francisco Chronicle, ABCNews.com, and RoadTripAmerica.com. They have also appeared in many RVing publications including Escapees, Family Motor Coaching, RV Companion, Woodall’s CamperWays, Coast-to-Coast and RV Life. They are also frequent guests on radio and TV across the US and Canada and enjoy sharing their “can do” attitude and travel tips with people. When they are not traveling, Phil and Carol enjoy golf, community activities, Yoga, and most of all their ten grandchildren.