Welcome to our blog. We are Colleen and Mike. We love to travel, and we both have backgrounds in education. Colleen is a kindergarten teacher and travel advisor and I now work with Buildings and Grounds. Many people wonder how we are able to travel as much as we do on school employee salaries.
Colleen and I both had a desire to travel and see the world, but we were held back by fear and uncertainty, not to mention the lack of funds to cover what we thought it would cost. Our goal is to help take the fear and mystery out of travel and assure new and less experienced travelers that they can have fantastic experiences for less than they might have imagined.
Between us, we have visited twenty-eight countries and thirty-nine states. We’ve added goals of seeing games in all the major league baseball stadiums and visiting all of the US National Parks. COVID has limited our travel to primarily the continental US. We did visit twelve National Parks in 2021, as well as taking a trip to Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. In 2022, we ventured out internationally with trips to Greece, Germany and Poland. We still have trips where the unexpected happens and we have to come up with a Plan B on the fly.
When we talk to others, we often get questions about how we learned to do something or hear tales of trips that didn’t turn out the way they had hoped. We often hear concerns that keep people from traveling like not knowing a foreign language, safety concerns, how to get around or the cost. In addition to sharing our experiences in some great locations, our goal is to share our tips, tricks, and knowledge to take the fear out of traveling and encourage people to venture forth and see something new. We will include our strategies for planning and booking our trips and how we organize all of the elements that go into a successful trip. We’ll also share some of our favorite destinations and things to do.
“Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.”-Jack Kerouac
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