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AI for Travel Adventurers

AI for Travel Adventurers

In my years of travel adventures, it took a lot of time and planning to discover all the best things to consider checking out on the next trip.   From food to sites, history, and one-of-a-kind, it used to take a lot of time to compile all the must-do things for a new place.
It's time to try AI as your travel adventure co-pilot!

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Have You Tried AI?

I know the answer is yes because the chances are you have shopped on Amazon, used services like Pandora, Spotify, or Nexflix, or used a chatbot for a customer service inquiry.  Whether you realize it or not, you have likely been weighing in on decisions from AI without even realizing it for years!  

In some ways, I have been an early adopter of the free and publically available generative AI that hit the internet in a big way around Christmas of 2022, or at least that is when I really saw it becoming available to nerds like me.  #ProudNerd  I dove into free AI tools like ChatGPT, image generation, and more and have never looked back.  I tell my husband that I am going to use the technology powers for good until the robots try to take over the world.  haha

But in all seriousness, I use it in so many areas of my daily life!  I seek out generative AI support for anything I used to search out on Google.  Garden planning, to business management tips, legal searches to history of a subject.  It's the World Wide Web summarized into pretty reliable responses in a few seconds.  

Travel unicorn

So saddle up traveling unicorns (yes that image was AI generated on DALL-E via ChatGPT), now it's time to take it for a spin for our travel adventure planning!

My Life as a Google Local Guide

I have shared my Adventures as a Google Guide and I have been a Google Maps user and official Guide for many years.  I don't know if Local Guide Level 8 is good or not for an adventurer, but I have been to a few places.  You can see my contributions through photos, business reviews, and the like here.  You can even follow along if you are so inclined.  Here are a few of them on the map:


Now what in the magic formula changes with AI?  Let's get into it!

Create Custom Trip Plans

Despite starting my generative AI journey with Open.AI and their ChatGPT, I have tried others including Bard from Google.  Well, now you can use this conversational AI tool from Google as an extension for Google Maps.

So let's take my current work travel example.  I am heading to North and South Carolina for work trips and need to start building lists of things to do and see.  When you open Bard to start planning, you provide a prompt.  This is what you would previously have entered in a Google search window.  But think of it as a real person you are speaking to, in this case, a local travel guide expert.

Here's mine: "What are travel experiences to consider between Charlotte, North Carolina, and Florence, South Carolina?  What should I see, do, eat, or experience in that region?"

Within seconds it returns to me a curated list of sites, photos, links, and choices by category! 🤯


Isn't that rad?!  And because it's conversational, you can now tailor it even more specifically now that you have seen the first responses.  Let's say I want to now just target Florence, SC since that is where I will have more time to explore.  Below is the next prompt that will follow along with what I have already been asking, but can be as different as I want as well.

P.S. You may hardly even notice the magic loading icon it goes so fast before the results are delivered:

The possibilities are endless for this free AI travel planning helper!

Get Started with AI Adventures

It's your turn!  I can't wait to hear back if you are new to AI and give this a try.  If you run into any snags or need help, just reach out.  I would be happy to offer you my tech AI unicorn brain to help get you going.  Here I am, complete with the little Google Maps stars and flags from my map above and with my favorite purples and greens.  Echo the Tech Adventurer Unicorn?  


So what adventure travel might you want to use an AI side-kick to help you plan?

Information courtesy of Echo Schneider


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Meet Echo Schneider, Chief Adventure Officer

 
Overworked, burned out, and with waning loyalty to an industry that had lost its way and was no longer true to itself.  Of course, career burnout was at an all-time high in my sector and amongst the worst in any field.  It wasn’t all even just about work, though my perfectionism often got the best of me there more than other parts of my life.  I look back and see that I was overwhelmed and questioning so many areas of my life.  Was I doing the right things? From diet to products I bought, from how I was involved in the community to time I was spending with family, and from how I was walking out my faith and showing up in a meaningful way to my world. In this craziness is where I found myself.
 
Healthcare (watch my fingers make air quotes as I say that word and use the term loosely at best) in the US had long been bought and paid for and was no longer masking their symptom management and disease maintenance focus.  It had lost its focus on health; they could give you a pill or cut you open.  But to nurture your health and foster your body’s God-given ability to heal itself, they no longer knew how to do that.  Or worse, no longer desired to be in the business of prevention and healing.
 
As so many professional people were doing in the modern economy, we, as healthcare professionals, we’re doing more with less.  Mandatory overtime, poor ergonomics, and complete lack of an environment to practice self-care were the norm.  And to make it worse?  Because of our specific industry, we added in a loss of our medical freedoms just to stay and do our jobs.  The days of job security were long gone, and I watched in fear as friends and colleagues in sectors across the board were being laid off just to help top leaders move the stock up for shareholders.  How terrifying that this could be the reward for lifelong dedication and hard work!
 
At home, it didn't feel much better.  I fought to find a non-existent work-life balance and to be present while feeling exhausted (have you ever come home from work to fall asleep on the couch and finally be awoken when your Mom calls? Tell me this isn’t just me!).  I was disappointed in myself seeing my self-care fall away, time with friends and family slipping by, and I wasn’t spending the time I wanted serving with my church family or in my community.  
 
Add to that the confusion and frustration of what should have been simple daily choices.  What foods should I be eating? Is this trendy thing something I should try?  Wait, is the product good or bad, I paid more for it, but I feel like I saw an article on them that there was a recall or they were green-washing.  So frustrating and such a time-suck trying to keep up and have the health and abundance our family deserved!  I felt like at every turn that I was running to keep up and felt like I ultimately just found more of the same lies in the name of profits, and more ways my health was ultimately paying the price, yet again.
 
How could anyone thrive in this culture when even those who were well educated and seeking out something better faced with such daunting challenges?  I know, first-world problems, but I longed to create something more, a legacy for myself and others.  To break generational chains and I knew I wouldn’t be able to do it stuck in this rat-race.
 
Set the stage for that something.  I have, for so much of my life, been interested in learning, growing, and being a student of personal development.  From an investment with top leadership development companies through their programs for years to Law of Attraction to Conscious Language and so many others, I was finding the mentorship and teaching I needed to make the changes I so desperately desired.  
 
There wasn’t an overnight shift or an immediate awareness to change, but I began to find my path slowly and as a result, was investing myself in new ways.  I was raised by a wise and visionary Mother who had shown me what it was to be an entrepreneur.  I always admired that title and was drawn to it in many ways.  As I dabbled in businesses from my youth through college and beyond, I was picking up pieces of freedom and a stage where I could work for myself to create something new.  
 
As the years went on, I kept pushing myself in that path.  I was helping others, and I was welcoming a team of like-minded friends and family to come with me.  This was possible; we were doing it!  It wasn’t easy, we were doing a side-hustle while still being full-time professionals and wives and Mothers, but we were doing it none the less.

I'm so excited to have found a platform to speak truth. To show up for others in "true health" in ways that I didn’t know could exist when I started down this path.  But I know now that we don't have to settle any longer.  Any of us, friends!  It's time to live the great adventure that you were made for.
 
Now it’s time to move beyond business beyond vocation.  Now we are building a blessing.  That has so many meanings, one being the definition of “a herd of unicorns,” in case you didn’t know.  I was given the title of ‘unicorn’ from a dear friend when she came to know me and saw what I was capable of achieving.  And now it’s my turn to see that light in you.  Join me, and together, we can create a community and movement with a vision to change it all.
 
I don't care what your background is.  What education you received growing up in business, finances, or medicine.  Those things don't matter.  We are walking a new path to freedom in all areas of our lives.
 
I'm writing a new future and destiny for myself and my family, and I won't journey alone.  A mentor taught me to carry the confidence that God has called me to rise, but I will not rise alone.
 
I'm reaching out my hand to you (don't worry, I recently used a plant-based hand sanitizer) so that you are not alone; we will do this together!  
 
You are so worthy.  
 
Your family and your dreams are worth it.  
 
Together we can do this, but you must take the first step. ðŸ‘Š

I can't wait to connect with you via text, email, or on social media!

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Echo Schneider

Highlandville, MO 65669
USA
Phone: 2082415018
Email: echo.schneider@gmail.com

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