Want to know everything about creating an amazing itinerary, even if you’ve never traveled extensively? Read my 10,000-word book, “How To Create & Book Your Own Travel Itinerary .” I even include an actual itinerary from one of my trips. I’ll send your PDF to the email address included with your PayPal receipt. The book is about 1.5 MB in size, and you can read the prologue below for free!
Prologue
Traveling abroad often requires what seems like a ton of different steps and arrangements. You might need to book flights, trains, cars, hotel rooms, and activities, as well as arrange all those items so they fit together neatly in an itinerary.
And when you step off the plane in a different country or on the other side of the planet, you’ll realize that you’ll need money for tips, a schedule for eating and restaurant locations, and (maybe) a local SIM card. So many parts that feel like a jigsaw puzzle to put together.
Wrangling all these different bookings together into a cohesive, fun, and exciting vacation can feel like an insurmountable task, and it’s why an entire industry exists to book everything for you. Travel agents have done a superb job over the years, but you no longer need to rely on someone else to create your trip.
Booking your own trip means you get to make all the decisions on what you’ll see, where you’ll stay, and every other facet of your travel. Travel agents and booking specialists may give you some great advice, but the information they bring to the table isn’t anything you can’t find out on your own.
Not only can you save money doing it on your own, but it’s almost like building your own home from the ground up. You’ll get to put your travel jigsaw puzzle yourself, so it fits together beautifully. Even better – you can use the same process I outline in this book to create every trip you ever plan.
Don’t think you can handle the operation on your own? Well, I’m here to tell you that you can book your own vacation, and you can even design everything to suit your personal schedule, budget, and interests perfectly. You may even find the process fun enough that you start planning your next journey the day you return home!
If you’re not yet convinced that you can make your itinerary from scratch all on your own, let me convince you with my own story.
Just a few years ago, I’d only traveled out of the country (I live in the United States) a few times, and those trips hadn’t been anything spectacular. A trip to Canada to see a friend on one trip, and a few weeks spent in England, rambling around on trains and touring castles on another.
After I visited England, I always wanted to travel again, but I never took the initiative to go until my partner expressed interest in an international trip. Could I plan it myself? Was it possible to plan everything we might do when I’d never really traveled extensively or even been to the country we wanted to visit?
Absolutely. Not only did I plan a road trip in Iceland that went flawlessly, but I also planned a trip to Vietnam and Cambodia that went amazingly, and a trip to Colombia that was incredibly fun.
I’d never been to any of those countries, and I had rather modest knowledge of them from history lessons in school and the random facts I’d learned about them over the years. I’d also never booked international travel outside of North American other than the plane ticket I bought years ago to England.
For my trips, I arranged air travel, car rentals, taxis, hotels, and activities. I also scheduled restaurant visits and calculated the cost of extras and incidentals like snacks, tips, and souvenirs. I planned every single minute of our time in those countries, even the downtime we had every few days.
If I can wrangle together all these pieces of a complex travel puzzle, so can you! And I want to share what I’ve learned with you, so you can enjoy the freedom to create your own fantastic vacation, wherever the winds may take you.
Without further ado, let’s start creating your next amazing trip!