Need some help starting your Worldlist? These are some of the books that helped to inspire me as I planned this journey.

Travel Books

• Rough Guides.  World Party: The Rough Guide to the World’s Best Festival. New York: Rough Guides Ltd., 2007.
• Schultz, Patricia. 1000 Places to See Before You Die: a Traveler’s Life List. New York: Workman Publishing Company, 2003.
• Freeman, Dave and Neil Teplica. 100 Things to Do Before You Die.  New York: Cooper Square Press, 1999.

Travelogues

• Kunst, David and Clinton Trowbridge. The Man Who Walked Around the World. New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1979.
• Crichton, Michael. Travels. New York: Albert A. Knopf, Inc., 1988.
• Potts, Rolf. Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel. New York: Villard Books, 2003.
• Hester, Elliot. Adventures of a Continental Drifter. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2005.
• Guevara, Ernesto Che. The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey. New York: Ocean Press, 2003.
• McGregor, Ewan and Charley Boorman. Long Way Round: Chasing Shadows Across the World. London: Time Warner Books, 2004.

Fiction

• Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea. New York: Simon and Shuster, 1952.
• Redfield, James. The Celestine Prophecy. New York: Warner Books, Inc., 1993.
• Redfield, James. The Tenth Insight. NewYork: Warner Books, Inc., 1996.
• Coelho, Paulo. The Alchemist. London: HarperCollins Publishers, 1988. (1992)
• Geisel, Theodor. Oh, the Places You’ll Go. New York: Random Books, 1990.