Hidden Travel: The Secret to Extraordinary Trips

Hidden Travel: The Secret to Extraordinary Trips

by Stephen W Brock
Hidden Travel: The Secret to Extraordinary Trips

Hidden Travel: The Secret to Extraordinary Trips

by Stephen W Brock

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Overview

Have you ever had a magic moment on a trip that so moved you, you knew you'd remember it forever? Hidden Travel shows you how to experience more such moments anywhere. While most travel guide books reveal sights that matter to others, Hidden Travel teaches you how to find what matters to you, on trips around the world or just around the corner.

It's about using travel to get enough distance from your ordinary life to realize just how extraordinary it is. In so doing, you'll also discover more: more meaning, adventure, relationships, purpose, happiness, creativity, or whatever you want more of in life.

Through stories, insights, and exercises from 40 years of travel to over 50 countries, you'll learn how to:

  • Experience a more meaningful kind of travel many long for but few find.
  • Discover the best places to visit and how to find hidden wonder anywhere.
  • Turn your trip into a learning laboratory to try new interests, personas and bucket list adventures.
  • Grow your confidence in safe yet exciting ways.
  • Turn hard times on a trip into peak moments..
  • Volunteer on a trip in a way that helps rather than hurts.
  • Plan and pack better by leaving behind unhelpful physical and emotional baggage.
  • Experience more magic moments for you and others anywhere.
  • End any trip well by practicing this one secret.
  • Apply your trip to your life so each day at home feels like an adventure.
  • Whether you're a beginner or are into adventure, family, slow, or sustainable travel or just wanting a better vacation, this book offers a different approach to travel and life. It works for road trips, international adventures, or even when you can't travel.

    With short sections and inspiring travel photography, this book makes the perfect gift for you or that special traveler who desires a better way to travel and a more adventurous way to live.


    Product Details

    ISBN-13: 9781735118802
    Publisher: Sublimity Press
    Publication date: 04/01/2021
    Pages: 298
    Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.62(d)

    About the Author

    Writer, photographer and branding expert Stephen W. Brock has traveled to over 50 countries in search of hidden places, unlikely encounters and great gelato. He helps travelers and explorers connect where they go with what they love most. To paraphrase an old branding line, he doesn't make people's trips. He makes people's trips better. He does so by helping them to think in new, unexpected ways about travel and life. As one of the nation's leading branding practitioners, Stephen's job is to see things differently. He works with some of the country's top corporations and not-for-profit organizations to help them articulate the hidden essence of a company and the deep emotional bonds people form with brands. He has combined this professional expertise with 40-plus years of travel to over 50 countries to reveal a different way to think about travel and to help people connect the world in them with the world around them. He writes and photographs for multiple travel publications such as National Geographic and at www.ExploreYourWorlds.com. He has two grown sons and lives near Seattle, Washington with his wife and favorite traveling companion (who fortunately is the same person). Visit him at www.ExploreYourWorlds.com, on Instagram, Twitter or Facebook at @MeaningfulTrav, and on Pinterest at @ExploreYourWorlds.

    Table of Contents

    Introduction

    Secret destinations

    BENEATH THE SURFACE

    WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR

    HOW TO USE THIS BOOK

    HIDDEN PLACES

    Start Before the Beginning

    THE HAPPIEST PART OF YOUR JOURNEY

    WORST-CASE SCENARIOS

    TRAVEL AS MYSTERY

    SURPRISE TRIPS

    HIDDEN WATERS: GLAMIS, SCOTLAND

    Outside In

    A PRIMER ON MORE

    MAKE IT A QUEST

    COLLECT, CONNECT AND SHARE

    PURPOSE, PASSION AND PLACE

    HIDDEN ARCHITECTURE: WASSERBURG, GERMANY

    Make Plans

    START WITH THE BASICS

    THINK LIKE A LOCAL

    THE VALUE OF TRAVELING SOLO VS. WITH OTHERS

    CHOOSE TRAVEL COMPANIONS WISELY

    HIDDEN BOATS: THE COTSWOLDS, ENGLAND

    Packing Light Part 1: In Your Bags

    CARRY-ON VS. CHECKED LUGGAGE

    THE VALUE OF PACKING LISTS AND STAGING

    20 WAYS TO USE A ZIP LOCK BAG

    HIDDEN BRIDGES: NANXUN, CHINA

    Packing Light Part 2: In Your Head

    TRAVELING EXPECTANTLY

    PACKING PERMA

    WHAT YOU CAN'T AFFORD TO LOSE

    HIDDEN DANGER: NEAR SARAJEVO, BOSNIA

    How to Discover

    QUESTIONS TO HELP YOU DISCOVER HIDDEN PLACES

    GETTING LOST

    WORK TRIPS

    HIDDEN RESTAURANT: PLAYA NEGRA, COSTA RICA

    Be Your Best Self

    VOLUNTEER VACATIONS

    ASKING FOR HELP

    WHEN YOUR BEST SELF ISN'T ENOUGH

    HIDDEN TREE TUNNEL: DAMME, BELGIUM

    Ways to See

    SEEING WHAT OTHERS DON'T

    WHERE YOU STARE IS WHERE YOU STEER

    SEEING THROUGH THE EYES OF OTHERS

    HIDDEN RUINS: GRANADA, NICARAGUA

    Just a Bite

    GO WHERE YOU NORMALLY WOULDN'T

    THE CRYSTALIZING EFFECTS OF FEAR

    PUSHING BEYOND YOUR LIMITS

    HIDDEN PEOPLE: CAIRO, EGYPT

    Time Travel

    DISCOVERING DIFFERENT TIME

    FIND YOUR PACE

    GIVE IT A REST

    HIDDEN MONUMENT: PARIS, FRANCE

    Traveling in Moments

    THE POWER OF MOMENTS AND TRAVEL

    A MOVEABLE FEAST

    SECRET SANTA TRAVELERS

    HIDDEN TREEHOUSE: WHISTLER, B.C., CANADA

    The Last Ten Percent

    PEAK AND END EXPERIENCES

    THE ART OF THE SPLURGE

    LESS IS MORE

    HIDDEN ARTISAN: CUZCO, PERU

    Coming Full Circle

    ICHIGO, ICHIE

    POIGNANT ENDINGS

    HOW TO REFLECT

    HIDDEN MORE: HOME

    Acknowledgments

    Endnotes

    Annotated Bibliography

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