BECOMING AN EXPLORER
​Introduction

I'm Doug Spencer.  This program may help you ​learn to travel more independently; avoid costly package tours; learn to interact directly with the locals; use cheap local accommodation and transportation; and learn to take advantage of partnership opportunities to substantially lower travel costs.

Travelling forces you out of your comfort zone; teaches you better time management skills; allows you to see and experience new ways of living; gives you the chance to reinvent yourself; helps you build confidence; improves your planning and organization skills; makes you a more interesting person; teaches you gratitude; helps you learn social skills; and teaches you how to be more comfortable with uncertainty and the unexpected.

​Using actual journeys I have taken, I will take you through the challenges I encountered on travel projects, involving you in the decision-making process and the learning benefits of travel. 

We shall not cease from exploration
and the end of all our exploring
will be to arrive where we started
and know the place for the first time.
-T.S. Eliot, "The Four Quartets"