The Absolute Easiest Travel Planner You’ve Ever Used

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The Absolute Easiest Travel Planner You’ve Ever Used

Our Travel Bucket List journal with sun design on hardcover, sitting on wooden table

You’re scrolling Instagram and see it — the most perfect little beach town you’ve never heard of. You think “we HAVE to go there.”

Two weeks later? You can’t remember the name. Can’t find the post. Gone forever.

Or you’re driving home and pass a sign for some waterfall. “We should check that out sometime.” You never do. You forget by Tuesday.

Or your coworker tells you about the best deep dish pizza in Chicago. The name goes in one ear and out the other. Then you actually GO to Chicago and spend half the trip scrolling your phone trying to find “that place someone told me about.”

Sound familiar?

This is why I made Our Travel Bucket List.

Travel planner table of contents showing day trips and weekend trips with budget tracking columns filled in with destinations like Petoskey, Charlevoix, and Mackinac Island

Your Travel Brain — On Paper

Every time you see something, hear something, or think “we should do that” — you write it down.

Not in the notes app you’ll never open. Not in a text thread you’ll never scroll back to find. In ONE book. The same book every time.

Day trip ideas? In the book.

Weekend getaway dreams? In the book.

That week-long vacation you’ve been talking about for three years? In. The. Book.

Day trip planner page filled in for Petoskey Michigan showing activities, times, and costs totaling $75

But Here’s Where It Gets Good

Writing it down is just the start. The book makes you PLAN it — not in a stressful way, but in a “now I actually know what this costs” way.

Every trip has space for:

What you want to do
When to go
How long each thing takes
How much it costs

So when your friend says “I can’t afford to travel” — you’ll know the truth. That day trip to the dunes? $75. That weekend up north? $300. It’s not that you can’t afford it. It’s that you never did the math.

The Surprise Weekend Bonus

Here’s something nobody talks about:

Life throws you random free time. A long weekend you didn’t expect. Kids at grandma’s. A canceled plan that suddenly freed up Saturday AND Sunday.

Most people waste it. They scramble to figure out what to do, run out of time to plan, and end up doing nothing.

But if you’ve got the book? You flip to the table of contents. Check the budget column. “Oh look, Charlevoix is $60 and we’ve already planned it.”

Grab the page. Go.

No scrambling. No “what should we do.” No missed opportunity.

The Random Road Trip Hack

Your partner says “Hey I’m driving an hour away to grab something off Marketplace.”

Old you: “Okay, have fun.”

Book you: Grabs the planner. “Only if you take me here for dinner on the way back.”

Suddenly a boring errand becomes a mini date. You already know what’s in that area. You already know what it costs. Easy yes.

Rainy Day? Hotel Day? Planning Day.

Stuck in a tent while it pours? Trapped in a hotel room with nothing to do?

Pull out the book. Flip through your dream trips. Add new ones. Plan the next adventure while you’re waiting out this one.

Turns wasted time into excitement for what’s coming next.

The Double Date Cheat Code

That dream trip sitting in your book that feels too expensive?

Invite another couple.

Suddenly gas is split. The hotel is half price. That $400 weekend just became $200.

The trip you’ve been putting off for two years? Totally doable. You just needed to do the math with more people.

And because it’s already planned in your book — activities, timing, costs — you’re not stuck being the one who has to figure everything out. You just share the page.

US map coloring page inside travel bucket list journal for tracking states visited

What’s Actually Inside

101 trip templates — 26 day trips, 25 weekend trips, 25 week-long adventures, 25 extended vacations
Budget vs. Reality tracking — what you THOUGHT it would cost vs. what it actually cost (so you get smarter every trip)
Activity planning — what to do, when to do it, how long it takes, what it costs
A map of the US — color in states as you go and watch your adventures grow

259 pages. Hardcover. Built to last years of dreaming and doing.

Oh, And One More Thing

This book makes a ridiculous gift.

Give it to her for Valentine’s Day. She fills it out with all her travel dreams. Now every birthday, anniversary, and random Tuesday date night? You just open the book, check the budget, and pick a trip she already planned.

You look thoughtful. She’s thrilled. You didn’t have to guess.

Everybody wins.

Ready to stop forgetting and start going?

👉 Get Our Travel Bucket List on Amazon Here.

Love Live Music Too?

If you’re the type who forgets which concerts you’ve been to, who you went with, or what city it was in — I made something for that too.

The State-by-State Concert Tracker Journal lets you log every show, track which states you’ve seen live music in, and color in a map as you go. Same idea as the travel planner — capture it now so you never forget it later.

👉 Check it out on Amazon Here.