The Exotic and the Mundane

Joyce’s first book is available for Kindle or paperback at Amazon.com.

Download the first chapter free at LearningToTravel.com

Joyce Dickens is the co-creator of Learning to Travel, a blog she and her husband Daryle have developed to help others identify and realize their dream trips, after taking one of their own.

Ten years into their marriage Joyce & Daryle started to really assess their dream of “traveling more” and what that meant. The result was an all-in life-changing 14-month journey to 23 countries and 23 US states. After hearing more “I wish I could do that” comments than they could stand, they realized that most people need a little push to believe their dreams are possible and a little guidance to turn them into reality.

Joyce’s first book, The Exotic and the Mundane is intended to inspire the traveler in all of us while the blog Learning to Travel seeks to take the reader beyond inspiration to action by sharing helpful hints and the structure to turn those ideas into action.

Ultimately, Joyce writes to inspire others to pursue their dreams, to travel, and most of all to believe that anything is possible if they decide it must be so.

When she’s not writing and traveling, Joyce enjoys running, event planning and volunteering on her local search and rescue team. She also has an especially soft spot for anything with four legs, the more rare and endangered, the bigger the spot. Knowing that there are places where elephants and leopards still roam free inspires her to dream and she believes making sure that the next generation has the opportunity to know that feeling is important. To that end, she also likes to visit and write about as many animals as possible in the hopes that others will fall as in love with them as she has.