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Happy Thursday Hidden Gem Travel community! Are you as excited as I am for spring? With the daffodils sprouting and more people getting vaccinated, this spring season feels doubly welcomed. I spent a good chunk of this week talking with travel colleagues across the pond. They can’t wait to welcome us back! If you have your sights on a vacation
Happy Friday Hidden Gem Travel community! I’m a day late in your inbox this week due to my virtual travel event on Wednesday night. It was a big success and anyone who couldn’t join us, I’m happy to send you the recording. Many thanks to my partners at Kensington Tours, NIC+ZOE, and Tidy Nest! With all the winter weather across
Happy Thursday Hidden Gem Travel community and welcome to February! Do you have plans for celebrating Valentine’s Day? I’ll be hunkered down at home as I’ve been busy this past week planning vacations for clients later this year and next. With promising vaccine news, people are forging ahead with future travel plans which is exciting! Lots for me to do
Happy Thursday Hidden Gem Travel community! Did you see on my social channels that Tuesday was National Plan For Vacation Day? Yes, it’s an official thing, and as I posted on LinkedIn there are some interesting stats about attitudes relating to travel in 2021: 69% of people see a change in scenery as a top travel priority in 2021, and
Happy Thursday travelers! With Fourth of July weekend a little over two weeks away, I’m feeling nostalgic about our last two Independence week vacations and wishing I had something equally awesome planned. Last year, we celebrated the 4th in Anchorage, Alaska (more on that VERY unique experience in the next newsletter or so), and the year before we were in
Greetings travelers! I have a personal confession to make – I regret that I never took my two sons to a ranch out west when they were young. It’s not that it didn’t cross my mind, but I didn’t have a travel advisor to inspire and guide me through the options or the wherewithal to make it happen myself. As
Greetings travel lovers – how are you all doing? We are on day 12 of my son’s quarantine, and as you know it’s not easy. Speaking of my younger son, he is a true outdoorsman. He worked as an ecotourism guide in Alaska last summer, spent a college winter term in Ecuador/the Galapagos Islands and just before the coronavirus hit,
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