30-Day Travel Challenge: How to Make Your Travel Dreams a Reality

by Kaila Yu, Kiki Wong

Do you think that you can't afford to travel? Wish that you had more time to travel? Award-winning travel writers Kaila Yu and Kiki Wong have inspired thousands of followers and travel fanatics to explore the world and shared their stories on outlets such as FOX News, Forbes, VICE, and more. Let them show you the exact steps to take to live your life without boundaries. Full of 30 easy-to-follow daily actions and helpful examples, 30-Day Travel Challenge is a spiritual, holistic, and practical guide to channeling more travel into your life. Finally, you no longer have to take on the challenge of manifesting your travel dreams alone. If you love 30-day challenges, plenty of actions, and a touch of humor, then you’ll love Kaila and Kiki’s guide on how they created their travel lifestyle. If you follow these steps and change your life with this book, your travels will no longer be a pipe dream but truly a reality.

234 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 5, 2019

About the author

Kaila is an author based in Los Angeles. Her debut memoir, ‘Fetishized: A Reckoning with Yellow Fever, Feminism, and Beauty,’ will be published on August 19th, 2025, with Penguin Random House's Crown Publishing.

Reviews

[Sara · Rating 2 out of 5]

Most of this book is information that you already know or can get with a quick online search. Some of their suggestions have nothing to do with traveling (journaling your thoughts and daily meditation), and some of their methods for saving/raising funds are bad advice (creating a crowdfunding account and make up some elaborate story about why you want to go).

There is a lot of talk of where the authors have gone, and how they were paid to go, but that is never really explained. The chapter on credit cards lists signup bonuses offered by different companies, but they fail to report how much the cards will cost in annual fees (nearly every card listed charges well in excess of $100/year). Personally, I also could have done without their travel pictures and selfies at the end of the book. Instead of focusing on the beautiful places they visited, they posted pictures of themselves in doorways and other locations that don't give any insight to where they traveled.

I may have learned the names of one or two new websites to check out in my travel research, but otherwise I felt this book to be severely lacking, and I'm glad it was free.

[Terri · Rating 1 out of 5]

This is a book that doesn't exactly provide what it claims, unless you are the type that's willing to blindly follow bad advice like taking out dozens of credit cards for bonus mile opportunities, creating a vision board, or take some half-heard advice from someone else's life coach (no, really). It is simply a vehicle for the authors to promote their own travel-themed social media. This is a pretty solid example of why BookBub/FreeBooksy and other email lists need to do a better job in vetting free books that only suspiciously have 5-star reviews on Amazon.

My advice? Take the time you would have to read this disappointing book (hopefully you didn't actually get stuck paying for it) and go earn some extra money. That's the only real way to get closer to your dreams of traveling.

[Martin Kelly · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent book. It's great for all levels of travelers and has an excellent perspective on viewing the way you look at life, not just travel. The authors have a fun voice and keep you engaged along the way. It's an easy read full of great sites and tips for getting ahead in booking your travels.

[Ola]

Wasn't a good fit for me.