Plan Your Escape: Secrets of Traveling the World for Less Than the Cost of Living at Home [Idioma Inglés] - Softcover

Do you dream about traveling the world or living somewhere for a few weeks to a month or more but don't know how you could afford it or even think it is possible? Now you can do it! We shatter common misconceptions about travel revealing proven secrets the travel industry does not want you to know. We also show you how to unhook from your routines, achieve your travel dreams, fall in love all over again, and give your life more meaning. Plan Your Escape, Secrets of Traveling the World for Less Than the Cost of Living at Home is a comprehensive step-by-step "how-to-do-it" guide essential for turning your travel dreams into reality making travel an adventure, not a problem. We show you how traveling the world or living somewhere for 1-2 weeks or 2-6 months can be safer, easier, and more affordable than you think. This book gives you the practical resources and advice missing in travel guidebooks. We reveal hundreds of cost-saving tips and bargain-finding strategies so powerful we were able to travel the world for months, which we could never have afforded otherwise. With these tips, worth 100's of times the cost of this book, you can stretch your typical vacation costs to cover a month or more of travel. In many places in the world we learned how to do it for less than a $100 a day for the both of us and we show you how you can too! My wife, Pat, who joined me on our worldwide travel adventures calls this the how-to-do Eat, Pray, Love book. She says: "Having had it all, but choosing to run away with my husband and best friend, has been the most rewarding lifestyle change one can make and has brought us closer together." My wife and I sold our business, rented our home, and traveled the world for 2 years visiting 51 countries and are members of the exclusive Travelers' Century Club. In total we have visited 100 countries and island groups on 6 continents as well as 43 states in the U.S. We have done home exchanges and taken 26 cruises on 12 different cruise lines on ships ranging from 10 to 3,000 passengers as well as over 70 trips together taking cars, trains, buses, organized tours, and independent travel all over the world. Traveling is our passion! We met scores of people along our worldwide journeys who asked hundreds of questions. We realized many people dream of taking a travel adventure but felt it would be too expensive with too many unknowns or didn't know the best way to pack or where to begin to make it actually happen. This detailed book combines real-life answers with countless hours of research from travel experts. We address the concerns you may have as well as the ones you may yet be aware of. We wish we had this book when we started. We show you how to start out slow, choose the right trip for you, and work up to longer trips or stays. We present ideas about how to get a reluctant partner interested in travel and how to bring you closer together even on a 24/7 basis. Plan Your Escape is the travel-planning guide Americans need. You too can unhook from your current routines and live your travel dreams.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

Wayne Dunlap has a burning passion for travel and is a member of the exclusive Travelers' Century Club, having visited 100 countries and island groups on 6 continents as well as 43 states in the U.S. Recently, he and his wife, Pat, sold their business, rented their home, and traveled the world for 2 years visiting 51 countries. Wayne and his wife have taken over 70 trips taking cars, trains, buses, and organized tours. They have also done home exchanges and taken 26 cruises on 12 different cruise lines on ships ranging from 10 to 3,000 passengers. They now enjoy most of their traveling independently on their own. As a former college professor, Wayne has a sincere desire to help others improve and add more meaning to their lives by realizing their travel dreams. He has taught high school and was an economics professor after his Ph.D. program at the University of California, San Diego (U.C.S.D.). He was a Vice President of Sales and Marketing for technology companies before he and his wife ran their own successful business for 17 years. They also raised a wonderful son, Alden. Wayne is listed in Who's Who Among American Professionals, Who's Who in Computer Management, and Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges. Wayne has been actively involved in his community serving as Chair of his local planning board getting many large projects completed while preserving the local environment, on the City of San Diego Small Business Advisory Board winning the Small Business Administration (S.B.A.) Vision 2000 Award and presented the City of San Diego Special Commendation three times, and as a Little League and soccer coach for many years. Wayne also ran for the U.S. Congress and received almost three times the number of votes in his district that anyone had ever received for his political party. Pat Dunlap shares Wayne's passion for travel taking over 70 trips and 26 cruises together and recently traveled the world for 2 years with her husband Wayne. Pat has been successful in business being a winner of "Entrepreneur of the Year for San Diego" for her own business and was a member of a fortune 500 company's 100% club for Sales for excellent customer support and business sales goals achieved. Pat believes having had it all, but choosing to run away with her husband and best friend, has been the most rewarding lifestyle change one can make. Pat says: "Visiting 100 countries and island groups together