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Title: Live Your Road Trip Dream: Travel for a Year for the Cost of Staying Home
ISBN: 0975292838
Author:
Phil White
Carol White
Publicate Date: 2008-03-15
Publish: 2008-03-15
List Price: $18.95
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Format: Paperback
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1: Excellent primer for an extended roadtrip
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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2: 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.
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3: 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!
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4: 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
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5: Taking the Road Less Traveled
At its core, Live Your Road Trip Dream is a book about turning a dream into a plan, and turning that plan into reality. If you are considering an extended road trip and are in the process of gathering information about how to do it - this is a good place to start.
The first half of the book focuses heavily on planning. They systematically consider the logistics of financing an extended trip, transferring important responsibilities, constructing a realistic budget, and planning an itinerary. As they dissect these topics, they share their approach and specifics about how they solved each problem.
In addition to discussing things and places, they also spend a fair amount of time exploring the "people" element such as breaking the news to family members, missing important events, and, of course, the obvious issue of getting along with a traveling companion 24-7-365.
One of the most valuable elements of the book, in my opinion, is the detailed planning worksheets in the appendix (and at http://www.roadtripdream.com). These include sample budget worksheets, to-do lists, list of supplies, and even a primer for RV systems.
The White's make a point early in the first chapter that the purpose of the book is to help the reader build a plan for their own adventure. The second half of the book, a journal of the White's trip, is offered as a guide to spark the imagination.
Although I appreciated the planning techniques, it was the journal I enjoyed most.
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