The Essential Travel Planning Kit

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Note to everyone: Save your money!!! I cannot believe the author of this "kit" can look at himself in the mirror after accepting $8.95 for something that any person with half a brain (maybe even a quarter of a brain) and a copy machine can do. There is NO magic here and certainly NO insight. This "kit" provides only scant "content" (it took about 5 minutes to read), and the information itself is so common sense that it's almost insulting. Seriously, people, save your money. I really wanted this book and the information it supposedly contained. I feel absolutely cheated and mad at myself for giving the author even a dime, much less $8.95. Don't do it!!!

"The Essential Travel Planning Kit" would seem to be at odds with the spontaneous spirit of the happy wanderer. The book's step-by-step system seems more geared to the anxious traveler who prefers to leave nothing to chance. Author Godfrey Harris holds your hand through the most basic functions. One one of the 11 reproducible forms provided in this book, for example, he suggests jotting down your preferred means of transportation such as "plane" or "car" or other possible mode of locomotion before moving on to other work forms such as "Travel Calendar" and "Items to Go," "Trip Budget" and "Packing Chart." Dismiss such anal-retentive planning at your own risk, however. Better to overplan than to plan too little and forget any medications. Harrisa, a public policy consultant since 1968, has organized trips for himself and colleagues, clients and family for an average of one overnight trip per month for the past 40 years. This is his 31st book, so he must be doing something right...Read more

THE FOLLOWING REVIEW APPEARED IN THE PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW ON JANUARY 26, 2003: "The Essential Travel Planning Kit" would seem to be at odds with the spontaneous spirit of the happy wanderer. The book's step-by-step system seems more geared to the anxious traveler who prefers to leave nothing to chance. Author Godfrey Harris holds your hand through the most basic functions. One one of the 11 reproducible forms provided in this book, for example, he suggests jotting down your preferred means of transportation such as "plane" or "car" or other possible mode of locomotion before moving on to other work forms such as "Travel Calendar" and "Items to Go," "Trip Budget" and "Packing Chart." Dismiss such anal-retentive planning at your own risk, however. Better to overplan than to plan too little and forget any medications. Harrisa, a public policy consultant since 1968, has organized trips for himself and colleagues, clients and family for an average of one overnight trip per month for...Read more