Do you know anyone getting married? Do you know any wedding planners or photographers? There is a very exciting website with great travel rates. One of the features they have is a Honeymoon Registry. A couple can sign up for free and their guests can donate to their honeymoon, just like a regular bridal registry in any retail store. Travel would be booked through this site. For me personally, as I have tracked this company, traveled, checked prices, and referred people I have found that probably 60-80% of the time this site has had lower or equal prices to what I can find elsewhere. Their customer service for me has been some of the best I have experienced. Sometimes the conceirge desk takes a few steps to get to the right person in the phone que. All and All I have been really impressed with this site. So impressed, I decided to refer business to them.
To help with your honeymoon costs and trip, register for the honeymoon registry!
Honeymoon Registry: www.travelwithfriendsnow.com and click on Honeymoon Registry
Let me know how your trip is!
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Travel Inspiration
I wanted to wish my father a Happy Father's Day today. I remember growing up he and his business partner owned their own business. They built automation machines for companies in the United States and outside the US. Dad would often bring people home for dinner or do to things with our family. He felt that they were away from home and he wanted them to feel comfortable. Occasionally, we would have visitors from different countries, some that were unable to speak our language. Sometimes we would have translators, often we would not. When my sisters and I were grown, mom and dad began their travel - mostly with a business focus and pleasure tossed in. Dad has been to about 50 countries. Thank you dad for giving us such a beautiful legacy. I hope to pass the passion of exploration, meeting new people, and seeing new places on to others that you shared with us growing up.
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Travel - A State of Mind
Whether we travel across the seas, across the country, or across the street - we are all travelers of this world. Some of us take bigger steps and venture further than others.
Travel is also a state of mind. It is the spirit of exploration. The taste of wonder. The sense of what is new and what is old, what is the same and what is different. The first time I had the opportunity to travel to Europe I was silenced, humbled, soul stopped - for it was then I truly realized how young our country is and how much more we have to learn from each other.
Travel teaches. It reaches. It stretches. It answers questions. It grabs our curiosity. Once, while standing upon the ridge of a crater in Hawaii, awaiting the rising of the sun on that particular day, I was reminded how small we are as humans in this vast, dependable land. It took almost an hour for the sun to rise that day. My inner spirit reminded me of how dependable our earth is, how consistent our creator is, how humbled we should be. It reminded me that we can truly count on the things that are important in this world without doubt and should we be worried about something, maybe our focus is on the wrong thing.
Travel exposes us to our brothers and sisters in our local town, called Earth. Several years ago I had the good fortune to attend an educational conference half way around the world. There students less than ten years of age interacted with teenagers, college students, and senior citizens from four contintents with different native tongues. Yet, everyone interacted respectively, sharing joys, concerns for the future, the meaning of friendship and leadership, and ideas on how to plan for our future world. I learned that the more we travel, the more we discover how much more alike we are from each other than different.
It is wonderful that we all have the opportunity to travel, for to me we can travel through books, through the virtual wide world, or in person. You never know what the future will bring. I once dreamed of sailing the Greek Islands. I knew this was so far out of my reach it was impossible. Yet, a little over ten years later that is exactly what I was doing.
You just never know what life will bring!
Travel is also a state of mind. It is the spirit of exploration. The taste of wonder. The sense of what is new and what is old, what is the same and what is different. The first time I had the opportunity to travel to Europe I was silenced, humbled, soul stopped - for it was then I truly realized how young our country is and how much more we have to learn from each other.
Travel teaches. It reaches. It stretches. It answers questions. It grabs our curiosity. Once, while standing upon the ridge of a crater in Hawaii, awaiting the rising of the sun on that particular day, I was reminded how small we are as humans in this vast, dependable land. It took almost an hour for the sun to rise that day. My inner spirit reminded me of how dependable our earth is, how consistent our creator is, how humbled we should be. It reminded me that we can truly count on the things that are important in this world without doubt and should we be worried about something, maybe our focus is on the wrong thing.
Travel exposes us to our brothers and sisters in our local town, called Earth. Several years ago I had the good fortune to attend an educational conference half way around the world. There students less than ten years of age interacted with teenagers, college students, and senior citizens from four contintents with different native tongues. Yet, everyone interacted respectively, sharing joys, concerns for the future, the meaning of friendship and leadership, and ideas on how to plan for our future world. I learned that the more we travel, the more we discover how much more alike we are from each other than different.
It is wonderful that we all have the opportunity to travel, for to me we can travel through books, through the virtual wide world, or in person. You never know what the future will bring. I once dreamed of sailing the Greek Islands. I knew this was so far out of my reach it was impossible. Yet, a little over ten years later that is exactly what I was doing.
You just never know what life will bring!
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