Is your body aching and your troubled mind screaming for relief? Why not delve into inspirational travel books to set your psyche at ease and have sweet dreams for the future. It is proven that planning for travel is as fulfilling and exciting as the journey itself. This collection of 7 inspirational travel books will have you planning your next world escape in no time.
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Dreams Goals and Adventure by Michael Ditton
Returning home from Desert Storm, Michael found himself mentally and financially bankrupt. Newly divorced, he had no job, no help, and no hope. His reasons to live were gone. At the lowest point in Michael’s life, he fell back on simple truths from his childhood: hard work gets results, and it’s okay to dream. And dream he did, setting goals that launched him from poverty to a life he could not have imagined. You can do it, too.
Dreams, Goals and Adventure is an easy read filled with short stories everyone can relate to. Some will make you laugh; some will make you cry. It’s not how to get rich quick but how to understand financial independence is different for everyone and you don’t have to be a wealthy as Bill Gates to achieve your dreams. But you DO have to have a dream and a goal in how to achieve them. The KEY takeaway is to never lose sight of your dreams. Dreams, Goals and Adventure not only will inspire you, but make you realize, if just some average guy like Michael did it, you can too.
And don’t forget along the way, to live life as an adventure!
“Your experiences are so extra-ordinary and you’re fascinating to listen to. Your speaking style is humble and respectful of both your role as a speaker and of your audience, as one would expect after hearing of what you were trained to do. If others would open their lives to adventure as you have, they would love their life even more.”
~Jim Cathcart- Entrepreneur, Speaker and Author of the bestsellers: The Acorn Principle and Relationship Selling and CEO of Cathcart.com
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How a Gorilla, Orphan, and Monk Saved My Life by Marni Allison
Explore the books written by Marni Allison if you believe travel has the transformative power to stimulate personal growth, bridge connections across cultural divisions, and encourage purpose-driven and responsible exploration of our world.
In her debut novel, How a Gorilla, Orphan, and Monk Saved My Life, Marni explores Africa and Southeast Asia after losing her parents and her job. The story illuminates the necessity of maintaining humor and resilience while facing mental and physical challenges, sustaining joy while dealing with tragedy, and embracing universal connections despite cultural differences. Discover cultural and historical insights along with five lessons for living an inspirational life.
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Learn more about Marni on her website and social media LinkedIn and Facebook.
Inspired: The Stories of Nine Solo Female Travelers by Chelsey Schultz
Do you always talk about seeing the world but never take that final leap? Are you unsure about traveling solo, because you’re a female and worried about safety, loneliness, prejudice, and more? Don’t let fear hold you back any longer!
Inspired: The Stories of Nine Solo Female Travelers is a collection of essays by nine women of different ages, ethnicities, nationalities, religions, education, upbringing, and lifestyles. Traveling to more than one hundred countries between them, covering every continent and amassing thousands of memories, they have banded together to share their stories of solo female travel.
Trek the jungles of Asia, face the ice of the Arctic, drive across North America, and visit villages of Africa. Meet the locals, swim among the whale sharks, and discover new and delicious foods. Imagine yourself trying anything and everything that catches your eye as these nine different women reveal their successes, their failures, and their unique insight into solo travel, inspiring other women to take a chance on themselves, and the world.
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Find out more about Chelsey, The Ninja Gypsy on her website and social media Instagram and Facebook.
Life in Motion: The Xenias on the Road to Ushuaia by Xenia Gamulin
Two women sharing the same first name drove a camper van from Denver, Colorado all the way to Ushuaia, Argentina. A journey of 25,000 miles, 294 days, across 14 countries. The Xenias are sharing with you this modern time adventure and life story. Life in Motion is not a travel guide, it is about impressions, memories, snapshots of daily life, best of, tips, and beautiful pictures; they want you to feel what it is like to embark on such a fantastic journey. After reading this, maybe you will do the same!
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Read the blog the Xenia’s wrote during their journey.
Postcards from Greece by Christine Schwartz
Visualize sailing through still waters where rocky islands covered with brilliant white buildings and sky-blue rooftops pass by on each side of you. The wind whips through your hair and the warmth of the sun lights up your face. At last, the feeling of freedom you desire will last forever.
Travel photography helps us to rekindle memories and begin to plan for new ones. Combining travel and photography is a hobby of Christine’s. She loves to sail and visually chronicles her journey in Postcards from Greece. Sail with Christine’s lens through the Saronic Islands (Aegina, Hydra and Poros with a stop in Epidavros on Peloponnese) on a small sailboat after first stopping in Athens and Santorini for a few days.
Eager to serve, the Greeks are welcoming and entertaining. The skies and the water reflect an intense blue and the photo opportunities endless. Let your eyes do the soaring through the incredibly diverse country of Greece.
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Roam Free: A Travel Transformation Memoir by Charlotte Tweed
What would you do if, at the pinnacle of a career you adored, you were laid off? When up-and-coming travel blogger, Charlotte Tweed, was flung into the no-woman’s-land of debt and unemployment – she didn’t hide under the covers. She reinvented her life through travel!
Roam Free is a deeply personal and often hilarious travel memoir that pulls you into the wild and woolly ride of Charlotte’s epic travel adventures. Delight in Roam Free’s sweetly innocent deep dive into a life of untethered long-term travel.
Charlotte learns that life as a full-time traveler and business owner is everything terrific and terrible she imagined it would be. Journey with Charlotte and her quirky, enigmatic husband, Darryl, on their surprising and mad-cap adventures of a lifetime. Be touched and entertained as they journey from job loss to personal transformation, with stops in the lands of grief, adult post-secondary education, and frequent visits to the ever-surprising landscape of marriage.
Travel with them as they experience the world with fresh eyes and open minds. Learn how they survive driving on the high-speed German Autobahn. Discover what helps them stay happily married on a treacherous Egyptian tour, a meltdown in Jordan, and navigating the alpine lunch options in Italy.
With singular wit and openness, Tweed shares the rough and magical bumps in the road from unemployed to empowered. Roam Free weaves innocence, delicious international details, and heartfelt insight into this often humorous look at what it can mean to reimagine your life through travel.
Roam Free proves it is truly never too late to reinvent yourself and hit the open road!
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See more of Charlotte’s work on her blog and travel consultant website. Catch up with her on Facebook and Pinterest.
Your Amazing Itty Bitty Travel Solo Book: 15 Strategies to Enhance Traveling Alone by Marni Allison
For the practical side of travel, read Your Amazing Itty Bitty Travel Solo Book: 15 Strategies to Enhance Traveling Alone. Turn challenges into opportunities. Learn how to select and plan your journey, how to deal with people who oppose your plans to travel solo, and how to get organized before you start your trip. Then explore how to meet exciting and interesting people while having a safe, healthy, and adventurous journey.
Find out more about Marni’s second book here.
Marni is releasing her next book Little Bird Learns to Fly on December 2, 2020. Watch for it on Amazon to get your copy in time for Christmas.
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Inspirational Travel Books
Envision travelling to all the places in these books and creating your own travel memories. My hope is that one of these inspirational travel books will ignite your desire to travel again and help you build a new relationship with the world. Is there a book that has inspired you to make changes in your life and seek out the adventures that you have craved? Let me know in the comments below.
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