Immersion Travel USA: The Best and Most Meaningful Volunteering, Living, and Learning Excursions

This book will absolutely changes lives and the way you think about travel in the United States. Designed to be a resource and idea book, this guide provides practical information about immersion travel; special considerations and costs; how to plan and take vacations, sabbaticals, side trips, and more. There are chapters filled with candid, warm stories from travelers who have been there, done that. It's exciting to visit a national park, but it's a lifetime experience to live inside one for an extended amount of time.

Help others and enjoy yourself by biking and building homes across the country. Learn the fine art of making an authentic Windsor chair. Work as a caretaker and live in a lighthouse. Care about returning the wolf to its natural habitat. Play in the High Sierra Mountains backpacking and camping.

Awarded the 2009 Silver Medal in the Society of American Travel Writers Foundation's annual Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition: the first and only travel book devoted solely to immersion travel--volunteering, living, and learning trips within the United States!

Thisbook will absolutely changes lives and the way you think about travelin the United States. Designed to be a resource and idea book, thisguide provides practical information about immersion travel; specialconsiderations and costs; how to plan and take vacations, sabbaticals,side trips, and more. There are chapters filled with candid, warmstories from travelers who have been there, done that. It's exciting tovisit a national park, but it's a lifetime experience to live insideone for an extended amount of time.

Helpothers and enjoy yourself by biking and building homes across the country. Learnthe fine art of making an authentic Windsor chair. Workas a caretaker and live in a lighthouse. Careabout returning the wolf to its natural habitat. Playin the High Sierra Mountains backpacking and camping.

An adventurer, writer, and educator, Sheryl Kayne lectures and consults about immersion travel. She is the author of two children's books and contributor to national and international publications. Home-based in Weston, CT, she currently lives in Everglades National Park as the writer-in-residence, immersed in its ecosystem and culture.