IT'S ABOUT THE DESTINATION

As a little girl, I was always fascinated with the idea of traveling to exciting destinations in faraway lands. As a young child, my dad would take me to the airport at night, just to watch the planes taxi down for takeoff amidst the background of runway's shimmering blue lights... Many of my weekends as a child were spent at an RV park and campground staying in everything from tents to travel trailers. Then when I was eight years old, my family crossed the border to go out of the country for the first time for a visit Niagara Falls, Canada. I was hooked on travel from that point on!... My first time traveling solo was a carefully planned trip by train to visit my sister in Boston when I was just thirteen. My parents tucked me away safely on the Amtrak railcar with strict instructions not to get off until my stop on the ticket stub, where my sister and her family greeted me with huge smiles at the train station upon my arrival. I thought I was big stuff! Little did I know that this..