During my 30 plus years in the travel industry, I have been privileged to travel to hundreds of great destinations and work with thousands of individual and corporate travel customers. At our agency, we pride ourselves on our attention to detail a...
During my 30 plus years in the travel industry, I have been privileged to travel to hundreds of great destinations and work with thousands of individual and corporate travel customers. At our agency, we pride ourselves on our attention to detail and our ability to help you through the maze of options that are available today. We do the hard work to provide you with the trip you want to have—and more. As a Certified Travel Consultant (CTC) and Certified Business Travel Specialist, I offer a breadth of experience. I’ve planned and participated in a variety of travel activities: everything from DIY-Europass-type of trips to fully-escorted luxury tours; from hiking Machu Picchu to cruising around the world; from being intensely active to sitting on a balcony and watching the world go by. My travel resume boasts a range of accommodations, as well, including camping with guides in wilderness areas and being pampered at 5-star hotels. I’ve also eaten local cuisine from street vendors and dined in the finest restaurants. My favorite destinations are places where I can view natural beauty—National Parks, Hawaii, Alaska, Scotland, and the Caribbean, to a name a few. But I’ve sent people and been all over the world, including Europe, Asia, and South America. Whenever people ask me, “What’s your favorite destination?” I always say, “The next place I’m going to.” I call myself an “experience collector,” because every place is so different and each has something really valuable to offer. What you learn about history, culture, humanity by going to someplace, you cannot learn from TV or a book. You can’t understand the beauty and the majesty of the Cliffs of Moher from a photograph; you have to be there. The natural features of Yellowstone change every hour, every minute, when a cloud goes by. A woman living in a corrugated tin hut in El Salvador is honored to serve you soup made from one of her ten chickens while her children eat only leftovers; she is so happy to share whatever she has with you. In the Caribbean, each island has its own culture and flavor—even though they’re only two miles apart from each other. The people in Cuba are amazingly resourceful; they aren’t allowed to “own” or “sell” anything, but they will go through a long, convoluted bartering process until they get what they want or need. The vastness of the Alaskan wilderness makes your ordinary frustrations appear tiny. I have learned so much, seen so much beauty, when I’ve traveled. This is what I seek to provide for our customers. Mark Twain said, “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness…” Another quote I like I saw on a sign somewhere that said, “Travel is the only thing you can buy that makes you richer.” I truly believe that.