Travel Therapy: Where Do You Need to Go? [Paperback]

Karen Schaler (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 24, 2009

For some, the only way to get over a break-up is to keep moving; for others, the only solace is a spa vacation. Tired of the same old routine, one woman might opt for a trip where the sole focus is helping others; another may decide that the only real escape is a Girlfriend Getaway with her best friends. According to three-time Emmy-Award winning author Karen Schaler, the only way to change your attitude is by changing your environment — and Travel Therapy is the guide to help you get there.

With 101 unique destinations, Travel Therapy is geared toward helping readers refresh and find themselves, whether they’re dealing with a breakup or divorce, celebrating retirement, or looking to shake things up. Every chapter includes quizzes, travel tips, and extensively researched links to the best destination-specific websites to help you figure out the perfect destination for you. From daring destinations to soothing spa escapes, Travel Therapy is your road map to self-discovery, happiness, and success — whether it’s zip-lining in Belize, helping orphaned children in Africa, or beachcombing the Caribbean.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Seal Press; Original edition (March 24, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 158005269X
• ISBN-13: 978-1580052696
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 7.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #411,803 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #5 in Books > Crafts, Hobbies & Home > Weddings > Honeymoon

More About the Author

Karen Schaler is the three-time Emmy award-winning TV correspondent and author of TRAVEL THERAPY: Where Do You Need to Go? featuring more than 100 inspiring destinations from around the world based on what you're going through in life. Stressed about the economy? Getting over a breakup? Looking for romance? TRAVEL THERAPY can help you find your way!

Karen also hosts a new national travel TV show on ABC where she also travels around the world shooting special spotlight pieces for the show and she's the editor of the TRAVEL THERAPY TRIPS website www.traveltherapytrips.com offering unique vacation ideas and insider tips on how to score the best travel deals.

Some of her additional publishing credits include: The New Yorker, Travel+Leisure, Town & Country Travel, Elite Traveler, New York Daily News, Boston Globe and abcnews.com.

A sought after travel expert for television, radio, print and online media Schaler has been regularly featured on Fox & Friends, ABC News, Fox's Happening Now, Better.TV, Martha Stewart Living Radio, travelchannel.com, abcnews.com and frommers.com.

Schaler has recently launched a new company, Travelhawk Media, where she leads an Emmy award-winning team that specializes in creating exclusive online content for hospitality and lifestyle clients. Schaler's company specifically focuses on producing online videos that clients can use on their website, for media pitches, for travel agents, press releases and journalists.

Schaler credits her hip, edgy writing style and her wanderlust spirit to her background as a national television news reporter. In 2007, Schaler was embedded with a combat Apache helicopter unit in Afghanistan, and in 1995, she was the first reporter embedded with troops in Bosnia. She has worked as a TV correspondent for CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight and a reporter/anchor at ABC, NBC, CBS, and FOX affiliates in major markets across the country.

Growing up outside of Seattle, Washington, Schaler has lived in thirteen different states and says her home now "is wherever I put my suitcase."

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing!, March 14, 2009

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Kathy Bezold "Travel Bug" (Keller, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Travel Therapy: Where Do You Need to Go? (Paperback)

I prre-ordered this book from Amazon and it arrived yesterday! What an amazingly different travel book. It could be used as a coffee table book or one you stick in your bag when you travel. It is that beautiful. I read most of the book last night even though it is not meant to be a sit down and read the whole thing book. Travel Therapy was so well written you just kept going into chapters that had nothing to do with what you were going thru in life at the moment. The book seems to be geared towards finding what you are going through in life right now and then choosing that chapter of the book to find some very exciting solutions. Well, I couldn't stop reading. It was such an easy user friendly book. There are little suitcases to tell you how strenuous the trips are and a quiz at the begining of each chapter to find out which of the three journeys you should take, based on where you are in life and what you might need to do to get a travel therapy 'fix'.

I would highly reccommend this book to everyone, family, couples, singles. And read the whole book! It's all good. Thanks Travel Therapy and Amazon for the great price and quick delivery.

Leaves you wanting more...be careful!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best travel book/review ever written., May 12, 2009

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GunsmokeSeville (Great State of Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Travel Therapy: Where Do You Need to Go? (Paperback)

Karen Schaler out does any of her other magazine articles I have read. I will be able to refer to this guide year-after-year.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Travel Therapy REALLY does take you away, May 1, 2009

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Marrybeth Jacoby "Gossip Girl" (Columbia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Travel Therapy: Where Do You Need to Go? (Paperback)

Flipping through the pages made me feel like I was really in some of these places. The interesting chapter to me was Pay it Forward, it seems like a great way to give back!
On the other side of the coin I can really relate to going to some of the places in the chapter called The Big Chill. I'm ready to head to the Florida Keys today!