A Dreamer's Travel Journal
Sometimes the journey that changes your life begins with a single decision: to stop waiting.
"A dream not written down is just a wish."
More than a travel adventure.
After years of struggling physically, mentally, and emotionally — including the lasting effects of long COVID — Jean Tillery set out on a 5½-week, 22-state solo road trip that would ultimately become far more than a travel adventure.
A Dreamer's Travel Journal is a raw, emotional, inspiring memoir about reclaiming life, rediscovering purpose, and learning what happens when you finally give yourself permission to dream again.
Part travel journal, part personal transformation story, the book invites you into the passenger seat as Jean navigates winding highways, historic landmarks, unexpected detours, powerful memories, heartbreaking moments, healing conversations, and life-changing revelations along the way.
Each chapter begins with song lyrics that reflect the emotional journey unfolding ahead — an experience readers often describe as cinematic, deeply personal, and impossible to put down.
What you'll find along the way.
Through humor, vulnerability, music, faith, history, and honest storytelling, Jean explores themes that resonate deeply with readers:
- Overcoming adversity
- Reclaiming your life after trauma
- The power of dreaming again
- Healing and self-discovery
- Courage in the middle of uncertainty
- The emotional complexities of adoption
- The reminder that it is never too late to begin again
- Riding shotgun on a journey of becoming
Real responses from real dreamers.
Real, raw, emotional, and inspiring.
It is never too late. Read this book, dare to dream, make it happen. Come alive.
You captured some of the deepest parts of our human experience.
It made me want to plan an #epicRoadtrip of my own.
Readers consistently say they feel like they're riding shotgun on the journey themselves.
This story is about more than miles traveled.
It's about:
- Learning to dream again
- Choosing courage over fear
- Healing from the things that tried to break you
- Discovering that writing down a dream can become the first step toward changing a life
The journey inspired not only Jean's Dream Manager work, but also her growing mission to help others reconnect with possibility, purpose, and intentional living.
This book is an invitation to dream again.
Whether you're standing at the beginning of a new chapter, healing from a difficult season, longing for adventure, or simply needing a reminder that your life is not over yet — this is your starting line.
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Jean Tillery
Jean Tillery is the founder of Epic Living with Jean, a company that offers integrated solutions to the problems that keep people from living their most #epicLife. She is a Certified Dream Manager, the host of the #epicStories Podcast, and an Ambassador with Epicure food company.
For years her Dream List included a cross-country road trip. After battling many physical and mental struggles — including long COVID — she knew it was time to take her Power of Dreaming message to the masses and mark that dream off her list.
The #epicRoadtrip is a project that blends her teaching experience as a home-schooling mom with her work as a coach, leader, creator, and community builder. She set off on this trip to change people's understanding of dreams — and ended up changing her own life in the process.
