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I recently returned from taking a short, 3-day road trip with my husband from a small town in Central Oregon up to a small town in Central Washington to visit his cousin and her significant-other.

Recently I moved to Bend, Oregon, an absolutely beautiful area in Central Oregon.

Now that New York City is in the reopening process, I was thinking about all the museums within the city and the surrounding boroughs and if/when they plan on reopening their doors in the wake of the Coronavirus situation. A

Wherever we call home – perhaps a house, apartment, maybe even a hospital bed – there are always things to be grateful for.. Another word to describe gratitude is “thankfulness”.

There have been several occasions since the Coronavirus outbreak began that I’ve thought about the many businesses I’ve dealt with over the last six years when I am making the arrangements for student tour groups.

All of this downtime from the Coronavirus Pandemic stay is a great opportunity for individuals to take a ride down memory lane by looking through old photo albums and videos.Cabin fever from Federal

With the U.S. airlines receiving a massive bailout they should be required to reconfigure the seating on planes based on social distancing. For example, middle seats should be blocked unless the entire row is for family members and the

A sense of humor is helpful to cope with the Coronavirus Pandemic. Laughter and humor are the best medicine and can actually strengthen one’s immune system.

Like many of my colleagues in the tour business, I am advocating for postponing tours rather than canceling them.

Travel industry experts are forecasting that about 2-3 months after recovery from the Coronavirus pandemic consumer confidence will rebound and there will be significant pent up demand for travel in late 2020 and early 2021.

Students and seniors enjoy taking factory tours. There are a wide variety of factory tours which produce goods made in the USA which are sold in markets throughout the world. Some of the tours are free and others charge a group rate.

Each year we setup a study tour to San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and Seattle for a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) university group from South Africa.