Rail Journey Toolkit · donnajadams.com

You've been collecting destinations.
Now let's turn them into
a route.

Research any destination. Build your shortlist. Plan the connected journey.

One-time purchase $14 Get instant access Google Sheets format · yours permanently · no subscription ever
What you're getting
The situation

You know you want to go by rail.
What you don't have is a structured way to research it.

You've got browser tabs open. Destinations on a list. A rough idea of what sounds good.
What you don't have is a way to compare how they connect, how long each one actually needs, or what the real arrival situation looks like before you land.

This toolkit is the step that happens before you book anything. The phase where you figure out what your trip actually is.

Inside the toolkit

Four tabs. Everything you need to go from shortlist to itinerary.

Cover Dashboard

Your entire trip planning system at a glance. Navigate to any tab, understand where you are in the process, and keep your research organized from the first destination to the final booking.

Instructions

Clear step-by-step guidance before you start. How to duplicate destination tabs, where to paste your AI response, and what not to edit so the formulas stay intact. Read it once and you won't need it again.

Destination Research Card

One tab per destination. Rail access and luggage storage. The real arrival situation. Best neighborhood to base from. What to skip. Honest pacing advice. Where to go next by train. One paste fills it all.

Journey Plan

All your researched destinations side by side. Rail connections, nights needed, logical order. Finalize your route in the journey table and you're ready to start booking. The itinerary stops living in your head.

Included in your toolkit

10 popular destinations, already researched.

Skip the blank page. These ten major rail cities come pre-loaded and ready to drop into your itinerary.

London England

Two thousand years of history wrapped in a relentlessly modern, multicultural capital.

Paris France

Grand boulevards, world-class museums, and café culture in one walkable core.

Rome Italy

Ancient ruins, Baroque churches, and daily life layered into one living city.

Zurich Switzerland

Medieval Reformation powerhouse blending with sleek, ultra-wealthy financial center.

Venice Italy

A medieval trading empire frozen into canals instead of streets.

Amsterdam Netherlands

Golden Age canals meet a famously progressive, bike-first modern culture.

Barcelona Spain

Gothic Quarter density collides with Gaudí's wildly original architecture.

Dublin Ireland

Literary heritage and pub culture beside a fast-growing tech economy.

Edinburgh Scotland

A medieval Old Town beneath a castle, beside a precise Georgian grid.

Vienna Austria

Imperial Habsburg grandeur fused with classical music and coffeehouse culture.

Want a city that's not on the list? The Custom Destination tab researches anywhere in the world in one paste.

How it works

Type a destination. One copy-paste.
Every research card fills automatically.

1

Make a copy in your Drive

You get a link. One click saves it to your Google Drive. Your data, your file, nobody else's server.

2

Type your destination

Open a destination tab, type the city and your passport country. The research prompt builds itself with your details already included.

3

Paste the prompt into any AI

Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini. Whatever you already use. The AI returns a structured report built around how independent rail travelers think about a destination. Not a generic tourist summary.

Works with the free versions of most AI tools
4

Paste the response back

One paste fills all the research cards. Repeat for each destination. Open the journey table and everything is there side by side, ready to build your route.

Who this is for

You plan your own trips. You just need a smarter starting point.

You want to travel by rail independently, not on someone else's schedule or a group tour itinerary.

You have destinations in mind but haven't figured out which ones logically connect, how long each one needs, or which actually belongs on the route.

You want to know the real arrival situation before you land: which exit, what the neighborhood looks like, whether you can get a taxi or whether you're on your own.

You're comfortable with Google Sheets and use AI tools at least occasionally. You don't need hand-holding. You need a system.

You want your research saved somewhere permanent, not lost when you close a browser tab.

What this doesn't do: it doesn't book trains, pull live schedules, or replace a travel agent. Think of it as the strategic research step that happens before all of that. The phase where you figure out what your trip actually is before you spend money on it.

What you're getting

Pay once. Use it for every trip you ever plan.

No subscription

Pay once. Nothing to cancel. Nothing to renew. Use it for every trip you ever plan.

Yours permanently

Lives in your Google Drive. Open it two years from now and everything is still there.

Any AI works

Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity. Use whatever you already have, including the free version.

Nothing to break

Google Sheets has run for 20 years. No updates, no broken integrations, no login to lose.

The Independent Rail Journey Toolkit

That list of destinations has been sitting there long enough.

For $14 you get a structured way to research any destination on earth, compare your options side by side, and build a real itinerary before you spend hours going down the wrong rabbit holes.

$14 Get instant access Instant delivery · Google Sheets · works with any AI · yours to keep