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

• Pull the Triggers: A Stanford University Psychologist's Elegant 3-Step Method for Creating New Habits by Lila MacLellan for Quartz

• 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
• Three Ways to Start Designing Your Dream Life by Celine Da Costa for Forbes Magazine
• 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 ...