Why I am in the Travel Business

These past few weeks, I was asked a number of times about our story that led me to be in the travel business. Sometimes you lose sight of what began the journey.

Tracy (my wife) and I had been married a few months when we found out that she had breast cancer. As one would expect, it was a stressful first year of marriage. As we neared our 1st anniversary, we knew we wanted to do something special to celebrate and to also celebrate Tracy being told the cancer was gone, after radiation and other drugs.

We both really had not traveled much beyond some mission trips and visiting friends or family. So we asked around, and a friend suggested going to Bermuda on a cruise. I had heard of Bermuda from TV shows and knew it sounded good. When Tracy told me that we would be leaving from Baltimore to cruise to Bermuda, I thought there must be a mistake since Baltimore appeared to be landlocked.

We went on the cruise and were in the lowest cabin category in an interior cabin, I presume close to the motors. We had a fantastic time. Tracy says we are not sure how we actually paid for it, but what a great celebration.

This started our love of cruising. In the next 3 years, Tracy saved and sold a lot of Mary Kay products to first take her parents and then mine on cruises, as we wanted to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversaries.

Then, as I had some time on my hands and Tracy wanted me to be more productive, I decided that since we had enjoyed travel so much and it had been awesome for us for celebrations and enjoying life events, I wanted to become a travel advisor to help others experience the same thing. That was late 2018.

Sometimes it is good to step back and remember what started the journey. What a journey it has been. I love helping people explore new places or to celebrate life.

So here we are now in the journey as I am a full-time travel advisor, having opportunities to go to new places all over the world, being asked to try out new vendors, resorts, and cruise ships. And helping others to experience and enjoy this incredible earth. Literally from one pole to the other and everything in between.