How to Plan a USA Cross Country Trip
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This step-by-step guide to planning a cross-country trip is a necessary resource for anyone planning to travel across the United States. It is designed for the leisurely traveler, intent on enjoying a full but relaxing and stress-free vacation. The principles involved can be utilized by those who are making a more intentional trip, usually made necessary by family or business circumstances which require a faster arrival on the other coast. These travel planning principles, if practiced for any trip, will result in an enjoyable experience for the traveler. They are:
- Plan ahead to plan your trip. You will discover where to find resources for your planning.
- Organize the resources and use them to find stopovers. You will learn how to use the resources to find the best places to visit, as well as quality food and lodging.
- Organize the findings. You will learn how to prepare lists of these desired destinations.
- Explore and discuss the findings. You will learn how to prioritize them according to the preferences of your fellow travelers.
- Prepare a schedule for each day. You will learn how to calculate the mileage and time needed for each stopover and to create an annotated schedule for each day.
- Be flexible and firm. You will discover the importance of “sticking to” the schedule as well as the necessity to “go with the flow.”
- Plan for the unexpected. You will learn to anticipate emergencies and delays and how a plan can make it easier to deal with these situations with less stress and disruption.
- Be intentional. You will learn the value of an intentional plan and how important it is for each traveler to be committed to making the plan work.
- Be enthusiastic. You will find some thoughts on how to make the planning process almost as fun as the trip.
- Be ready for anything. You will learn some of the ways even the best-planned trip can be disrupted and how to deal with them.
- Plan to have a great trip! You will see how prior planning can make or break a trip.
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Your Step-By-Step Guide to Planning a USA Cross Country Trip
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Table Of Contents
Introduction: Why Plan a Trip?
WHAT YOU WILL NEED
Chapter 1: The Plan To Plan Your Trip
YOUR FIRST PLANNING SESSION
Chapter 2: How To Plan Your Trip
NEW YORK CITY TO SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA
PREPARATION
OUR TRIP – NEW YORK CITY TO SAN DIEGO
Chapter 3: How To Plan To Take The Trip
Chapter4: Planning Your Departure
D-DAY
DAILY PLANNING
Conclusion and Checklists
ABOUT THE EXPERT
Recommended Resources
INTRODUCTION: WHY PLAN A TRIP?
Cross-Country trips can be glorious, exhilarating, and even educational. They can also be exhausting, expensive, and an education in what NOT to do on vacation next year. If you want to travel from coast to coast in the USA, prior planning is essential. Taking off with no direction, no ideas about what to see and which way to go, no arrangements, and no marked maps will result in a cross-country trip which you will not want to write home about or even send pictures to the children.
Consider this scenario:
Frame1With the right planning, the chances of this type of unpleasantness are minimal and you can look forward to your trip with excited anticipation, take off with confidence, arrive at your destination with satisfaction, and you can even enjoy Eggs Benedict somewhere near the mid-point of your trip.
In this book you will learn how to:
•Plan a cross-country trip starting from New York City and arriving in San Diego, California twenty-one days later;
•Find glorious and exhilarating scenery to enjoy every day;
•Find attractions to please every traveler;
•Locate the most unique, best-priced, and highest rated accommodations along your preferred route;
•Keep your trip flowing smoothly with a minimum of delays and alterations;
•Maybe even learn something while having tons of fun and getting plenty of sleep; and
•Arrive at your destination and not feel like you need a vacation to recuperate from your vacation.
Most importantly, this planning will eliminate the anxiety of not knowing where you’re headed, where you’ll end up for the night, and what each next day
will bring. So, get at it!
WHAT YOU WILL NEED
There are a number of resources for planning a road trip; some of them are absolutely essential, some of them are