You might already have a Bucket List, Dream List, or Adventure Wishlist to explore destinations and itineraries for inspiration. The Travel Forever SYSTEM gives you best practices on how to choose your next destination(s), and then create your itinerary.

​You've got so MANY choices - there's a whole big wide world out there! The challenge will be to narrow this list keeping in mind your Step 1 foundation: your WHY, your WHO, BUDGET, WHEN. This system is helpful to narrow your travel down to fit within some sort of structure.

This step will also help guide you through any tricky logistics and routing, offer Pro Tips and travel hacks. Step 2 will also help you identify as many activities as you like, and how to get and tailor the unique local experiences that insider knowledge offers.

In this step of the Roadmap, you will then be ready to create a day-to-day itinerary with rough costs. Step 2 provides strategies on how to arrange these many details (more for month-long trips) in a systematic way that increases possibilities for success!

It's time to turn dreaming into doing. Once you're happy with your itinerary, lock it in with reservations.
Use the Travel Style and budget you identified in Step 1 to determine the TYPE of travel for you! Will you do a private customized tour, or join a group tour, or Do it Yourself (DIY)? Or will you blend these types of travel into a hybrid experience?
However the travel type, the Travel Forever SYSTEM gives a simplified and step by step process for choosing Tours, Lodging, transportation, activities.

In addition to preparing the usual - what you are packing, travel documents, insurance and vaccinations - depending on how long your journey is, you may have a lot (lot!) more to prepare to get ready for your trip!

You will have to prepare your house to be vacant or to be rented out. You’ll want to prepare your business, to run without you, or to have less of your attention while you are out touring. You have to get your funds ready to support the trip expenses. And, you have to prepare yourself - mind, body and spirit! There is much to do so you can soon just focus on looking forward to what promises to be your unforgettable trip.

The moment you have been planning and waiting for has arrived! Step 5 focuses on elevating your travel-related activities to enhance your travel experiences, achieve your travel goals from Step 1, and create lasting memories.
For example:
> touring "optimally", exploring cultural attractions, outdoor adventures, culinary tourism and learning about local traditions to really soak up the local experience.
> managing one's body (health, sleep, eating for energy and vitality),
> Learn innovative solutions and the mindset to deal with possible travel challenges.

There are many books / blogs on the Survival Guide for travel … but why settle for just surviving when you can truly THRIVE?

Step 6 focuses on managing your life when you are not touring. How to make yourself at home wherever you are. If you are on an extended trip, learn how to THRIVE in different areas of your life: your health (vitality, diet, exercise), prioritizing “work” or managing your investments, sources of income, relationships, social connections, living like a local, and much more to make this long-term trip sustainable!

Step 7 gives you pro tips on how to get settled quickly back home, manage your life, and minimize potential chaos in your re-entry. You experience ease and peace, and feel like you can do your next trip again … soon!

Mindset, principles, and strategies work in concert to shape how individuals approach and navigate life's challenges and opportunities. A strong mindset, guided by sound principles, allows individuals to effectively implement strategies that lead to desired outcomes. Use declarations to lock it in your body, and talk with your other than conscious mind to ensure greater success of behavior change.

Throughout the book, I talk about the innovative solutions and travel hacks I created to solve common travel-related problems and life challenges during travel. I created these Principles & Strategies from my 40+ years of global travel experience, being a real estate investor and entrepreneur, a performance coach, an executive coach facilitating Leadership workshops, and living internationally as an Expat in our Costa Rican beach home on the edge of the rainforest jungle.

Here are just a few of the creative and sometimes quirky strategies I’ve developed over time:

Finding a parking spot in a busy city, getting a nice table or room in a sold out situation, getting admitted into a country with the wrong (or no) visa, making a flight that was already scheduled to depart during a tight connection - this is the art of attracting big or small miracles.

Drama can show up in various situations - with your travel partner, with some random person on the street in Fiji, and with yourself! Say NO to wasting time that can be used more productively on enjoying all that your travel location has to offer, AND it helps grow your relationship with your travel partner! Say YES to becoming a better version of yourself!

Travel expert Rick Steves reminds us that one of the biggest mistakes travelers make is letting mistakes ruin your trip. Th Reset strategy is a great way to learn from the mistake, let it go, and practice the power of NOW in travel to fully soak in where you happen to be in the moment. There are many other applications for the “Reset!” Strategy: packing to leave a destination and before getting on a plane, after an argument, a ritual at the end of a year / month / week / day. You can also reset moment by moment.

I created this while managing my rental and mortgage portfolio, to deal with misbehaving renters and borrowers. It is about letting something sit not handled, and like a banana on a table, rots more and more the longer it sits, making it more difficult to deal with. This works well to handle issues with relationships, and life stuff specially during your extended travels!

Get rid of stuff that does not serve you. Reduce stress, increase focus, and enhance emotional well-being to better enjoy, specially during extended travel. Free up valuable time and energy to foster a sense of calm and clarity, and more magic shows up while touring. Travel light!

Another way to manage time, is to just eliminate the useless things that take your time.

This is my unique twist on the Pros versus Cons (Cost versus Benefit) approach to decision making. We applied this systematic process when we decided to pass on going to Varanasi for Dev Diwali (the Festival of the Gods of the Light) on the Ganges river. This process goes well with the “Go / NoGo” that looks for reasons to immediately decide if something is a NoGo / Pass.

I was disappointed when we decided not to go to Malaysia and Singapore (even if it was so close to where we were - Bali), but that gave space for us to go to, and have a joyful trip in Fiji. The "Joy of Missing Out" feels better than the “Fear of Missing Out” (FOMO) where we prioritize experiences over ticking off a bucket list. I learned to trust, and come from an expansive rather than scarcity mentality, and magic happened.

“What?!? Me?!? But what about …”
Yup, only you are responsible for your reactions! Applying Stoic philosophy, focus on what you can control (your actions and reactions). How powerful is that! Now claim your power to have the most awesome trip you can!
​​The next step after this is being 100% responsible for the reality you create: thoughts, beliefs, and actions are the primary drivers of one's experiences, and by taking ownership of one's mind, individuals can significantly influence their circumstances.

I adopted this up from Tony Robbins, Life and Business Strategist, and #1 NY Times bestselling author, and integrated it with other lessons I have learned about the Law of Attraction. I declared that “Life is happening FOR me!” many times daily after I broke my wrist in the Amalfi coast, which put me in a mindset to pivot so we could continue to travel in Europe for almost 2 more months while in a full arm cast and later a brace. We had a really awesome time! My book will share the lessons we learned about resilience in travel, like this.