New Adventures...

If there was one place you could go, anywhere in the world where would it be?  Would you choose a place you've been a thousand times because it is familiar or comfortable or would you choose the excitement of an unknown territory.  For me, I like a mixture of both.  I love to travel to new places, experience new sights, sounds, and tastes and create new memories while exploring a new culture.  There's also something charming about returning to a place where you feel a connection.  Maybe it's sitting in the park behind Notre Dame eating a nutella crepe and watching hundreds of tourists walk past...knowing that it wasn't that long ago when you too looked around in wonder at such an amazing structure.

I lead travelers overseas almost every year.  I love seeing their expressions at seeing some of my favorite European cities for the first time.  In a way it takes me back to the first time in 2002 when I participated in a study abroad in Cambridge, England.  I remember feeling overwhelmed, out of place, and awed at my surroundings.  Those feelings quickly went away and I found a home in a beautifully pub filled village.  I can't begin to describe the emotional journey that is exploring a new country for the first time but I can say that it is something that has changed by life forever.

I have since seen some of the world's most beautiful cities, towns, villages, and landscapes.  Each moment, each location, each memory have left an imprint on my gypsy soul.  I am always searching...yearning for that new discovery. 

This is why I take groups overseas...to show them what I fell in love with so many years ago and in some cases go on that journey again to explore a new place.