Live Your Road Trip Dream: Travel for a Year for the Cost of Staying Home
Selected Book Details
- Paperback
- Edition: 2nd
- Author: Phil White, Carol White
- Publisher: Rli Press
- Release Date: March 2008
- ISBN-10: 0975292838
- ISBN-13: 9780975292839
- List Price: $18.95
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Summaries and Customer Reviews provided by Amazon
SummaryBoomers, Gen-Xers, Seniors and more everyone has a dream of that long trip that they ve had in the back of their mind. If so many dream it, why do so few do it? Authors Phil and Carol White believe it is not only fear of the unknown, but more importantly, inertia. It takes a fair amount of thinking and planning to take off for an extended period says Carol, but the rewards of working through your issues and actually getting out of town to see our country or another place, will be with you forever. Don t wait for some other time start planning now. The White s award-winning, how-to book, Live Your Road Trip Dream is now released in its second edition after a very successful three printings of the first edition. Due to the popularity of road tripping, but not just amongst the retired set, the White s have included expanded coverage of topics of interest to the younger generation. Today s younger generations aren t waiting until retirement to hit the road says Phil, they want to do it now if they can figure out how. With our expanded sections on sabbaticals, working on the road and road-schooling for children, we ve covered many of the topics that we get asked about frequently. And the Whites do get asked often. As National Spokespersons for the Recreation Vehicle Industry Association, they speak at such prestigious conferences as AARP s Life@50+, and attend national conventions like The Good Sam Club s Great North American RV Rally, and talk to the press frequently as experts on road tripping. The Whites are also frequent guests on TV and radio and have been featured speakers for AAA in their home state of Oregon. Live Your Road Trip Dream is more than an inspiring adventure, more than an information-packed how-to guide to help you turn your personal travel dream into reality it is the ultimate handbook to turn your wanderlust into action. |
Customer Reviews
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It's just a diary
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I would not recommend this book, it is nothing but a diary put in book form. No insights worth the price. The budget and travel forms are most helpful, but not worth the price of this book.
Complete farce!!
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First off, and I rarely say this about ANYTHING these days.....DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK!!! I can't emphasize that enough. Total and complete joke. The book was (I'm guessing) for some person (Ms. White), to tell her personal story to the world like people actually would care. Every other page it was "all about her", and what they spent on this, or how she just had to tell the world she was traveling for a year on the road. "People were so excited to hear MY story" I truly felt sorry for Mr. White (oh yeah, he was there....LOL) who has a loud mouth for a wife. By page 78 I was about to throw up. If you think going out on the road and spending over $70,000 is NORMAL for people to do....then this is the book for you. What a complete joke these people are. Talk about "I love me" so much.....jeez. Pathetic. All the advice in the book is just SIMPLE COMMON SENSE people. I was expecting waaaaay more than what I got. To top it all off, half the book is just about them on there trip. LMAO! DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK!!!! Why give these self involved people another dime!
A great guide full of tips and tricks
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Perhaps you have imagined a life on the road, but just didn't think it would be practical or affordable. Maybe you should pick up Live Your Road Trip Dream, a comprehensive guide to planning and traveling on the road. Written by baby boomers Phil and Carol White, who spent a year traveling the country in a class B RV, they share dos and don'ts applicable for all ages and economic brackets.
The Whites do an excellent job of covering every possible scenario: What do you do with your house when you're gone? What do you do if you're injured during your trip? How should you take care of your finances? And the list goes on. They provide budgeting tips based on their experiences with charts to fill in for your own planning, plus other practical items like a checklist of gear and a sample itinerary for ideas on how to organize one's trip. They also include excerpts from their journal written during the journey, sharing a sense of the trip that they themselves embarked on.
Throughout Live Your Road Trip Dream, the Whites become your friends, the type who truly gives good advice. When they know a resource that would be helpful for a particular situation, they recommend the book or website. They share examples of their own trip when something worked or didn't work out, and perhaps what they would have done differently. Most importantly, they recognize that their trip is not your trip and the information they provide is intended to make your life easier and you are free to take what you will.
If you didn't think taking an extended trip was in the cards, this book helps open the door to the possibilities. Whether your trip will be shorter or even longer than the Whites' trip of a lifetime, this book provides helpful information to address any concern. Although the authors are an older couple with a comfortable budget, they consciously offer advice applicable for all ages and for smaller budgets, as well. The Whites are positive and inspiring along the way, and leave you with a good feeling that your own dream trip can easily be a reality.
Quill says: A great guide chockfull of helpful tips and tricks for road tripping.
Robert H. Mottram, Author - In Search of America's Heartbeat: Twelve Months on the Road
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We liked the way the Whites organized their book; approximately half of it a how-to for people wanting to hit the road themselves, the rest of it a narrative account of the Whites' own road trip through America to give the reader a taste of what it is like to be footloose and free on America's highways. The Whites' trip was a bit like our own In Search Of America's Heartbeat. In fact, we visited a few of the same places, although we saw them through different eyes and often took away different experiences and conclusions.If you are in the formative stages of putting together such a road trip, the Whites' book is one good place to begin. Its budgeting tips alone will help you plan realistically for your time away from home.
Excellent primer for an extended roadtrip
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This is an excellent primer for a very extended road trip, but it's not about being an rv full timer. The authors decribe intending to be "full timers" for a year with only incidental trips home for holidays and emergencies. They describe the evaluation in purchasing an rv and provide plans for living at camp grounds. But they stayed in hotels 4 to 5 nights a week and ate at restaurants even more often.
So it's really about their road trip to see the contiguous states in a year, how they planned & prepared, where they went, what they saw, and how they dealt with personal and family emergencies.
There's a good routing plan to see the lower 48 and many sites are described in detail, including many "do"s, "don't"s, and "watch-out-for"s.
The most valuable sections describe their analysis for dealing with the day-to-day responsibilities they left behind when they're on the road, far away.
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