TT Resources
On this page, you will find lists of some of our favorite articles and books for you to check out. Have a recommendation for this list? Awesome! Let us know by sending us a message to Hero@Transformational.Travel!
Articles You Need to Read:
- Why We Travel by Pico Iyer (It's our favorite article... Hence the bold :)
- 5 Reasons Why You Should Travel the World by Sam Austin for Live Learn Evolve
- How Nature Resets Our Minds and Bodies by Adam Alter for The Atlantic
- How Walking in Nature Changes the Brain by Gretchen Reynolds for The New York Times
- It's OK to Spend All of Your Money on Traveling, Science Says by Christine Schoenwald for The Huffington Post
- Re-Wilding Human Nature by Lucy Purdy on Positive.News
- Study: Hiking Makes You Happier by Lauren Steele for Outside Magazine
- Take Two Hours of Pine Forest and Call me in the Morning by Florence Williams for Outside Magazine
- The New Science of the Creative Brain on Nature by Carolyn Gregoire for Outside Online
- The Science of Conquering Your Greatest Fears by Florence Williams for Outside Magazine
- The Science of Why You Should Spend Your Money on Experiences, Not Things by Jay Cassano for Fast Company
- This is Your Brain on Nature by Florence Williams for National Geographic
- Transformational Travel: Life-Changing Vacations and Retreats by Peter Greenberg for PeterGreenberg.com
- Transformative Travel: An Enjoyable Way to Foster Radical Change by Susan L. Ross, Ph.D. in ReVision Magazine
- Transformed by Travel: 9 Stories by Annie Fitzsimmons for National Geographic
- Transforming Everyday Tasks Through Travel by Leah Mayor for The Huffington Post
- We Know Nature Makes Us Happier ... Now Science Says It Makes Us Kinder, Too! by Jill Suttie in YES! Magazine
- Why Travel Makes You an Awesome Person by Matt Kepnes (of Nomadic Matt) for The Huffington Post
Books We Love:
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
- The Art of Pilgrimage by Phil Cousineau
- Crossing the Unknown Sea by David Whyte
- Daring Greatly by Brene Brown
- Explorers of the Infinite by Maria Coffey
- Fearless by Steve Chandler
- The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner
- The Happiness of Pursuit by Chris Guillebeau
- The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
- The Longest Way Home by Andrew McCarthy
- Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
- Manuscript Found in Accra by Paulo Coelho
- The Nature Principle by Richard Louv
- Riding the Hulahula to the Arctic Ocean by Don Mankin & Shannon Stowell
- Roadmap by Roadtrip Nation
- The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
- Sun After Dark by Pico Iyer
- 17 Lies That are Holding You Back and the Truth that Will Set You Free by Steve Chandler
SOME OF OUR FAVORITE TRAVEL MOVIES:
In no particular order ...
- The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
- Finding Joe (the Movie)
- The Motorcycle Diaries
- A Map for Saturday
- 180 Degrees South
- The Way
- In July
- Wild
- Forrest Gump
- The Beach
- Que Tan Lejos
- The Darjeeling Unlimited
- The Hundred-Foot Journey
- Lost in Translation
- Into the Wild
- Before Sunrise
- Up!
- In Bruges
- Indiana Jones (all of them!)
- Thelma & Louise
- A Good Year
- 7 Years in Tibet
- Midnight in Paris
- Vicky Christina Barcelona