How to plan a grand adventure – step by step

Dreaming of a big adventure but struggling to get started? Here is the guy who has all the answers!

If you have already read Alastair Humphrey's previous book “Microadventures”, now it's time to grow and plan your first grand adventure. Alastairs's new book “Grand Adventures” will guide you through the process step by step.



15 years of adventure experience are more than enough to listen carefully to what Alastair says (trip around the world by bike, rowing across the Atlantic Ocean, Iceland adventure - glacier crossing and packrafting with 40 kg packs only, just to mention a few). The book also contains interviews with 100+ great world adventurers who will provide a gentle kick up your backside and show you that anything is possible once you have decided what you want.



Here's Alastair:
“Consider this: if you saved up £20 a week for a year, you'd have £1000 which is more than enough money to cycle all the way to Japan… Dream Big, Plan Quick, Go Explore.”
This is just an example to show you how easy it could be if you just stop thinking “I don't have enough money”. It s the same for “I don't have enough time”, “I don't want to go alone”...

If this is not enough, here's what Alastair told us on how to overcome inertia and head for your first grand adventure:

- How would you describe your adventure self in three sentences?

- My adventure self is very different to my real self! My adventure self is curious, bold, willing to dice with failure. It also constantly battles against my lazy, wimpish side that wants to give up, go home, and watch football.

- How does adventure change you?

- It doesn't change you so much as make you realise who you really are. Your strengths and weaknesses become brutally clear out in the wild when times are tough. And adventures make you realise that you are capable of more than you realise.