I’m Crossing Over
23 Feb 2012 Leave a Comment
in travel agents Tags: errors and omissions insurance, home-based travel agency, host agency, host travel agency, montrose travel, new business, travel agent, Travel Services, vacation
Okay, so I’m not talking about some weird episode of Medium. I am referring to my newly-formed business venture. I have finally put my dreams into action and started my own home-based travel business. I have finally crossed over from being the consumer to the seller, and I couldn’t be more excited.
I have talked about starting my own travel business for years, but never thought I had the know-how or gumption to do it. My husband showed me a website about starting a travel agency and I began to research my options. I had no idea that you can start your business under a host agency, which made it seem a lot less stressful to me.
I chose to be an affiliate with Montrose Travel, which is one of America’s Top 50 Travel Management Companies. After researching what all they had to offer me, I quickly realized that this is the way I wanted to begin my journey as a travel agent. Montrose Travel provides a private-labeled website, training, marketing, errors and omissions insurance, a blast email program, support, along with so much more. I wish I had known about this option years ago. I knew that my experience in travel would already give me a good start, and added with what my host agency provides, I have a great foundation for a solid home-based travel business.
You can find my website at www.alovefortravel.com or you can click the link I have provided in the menu on the side. Provide your email address so you won’t miss out on all the great travel deals. I have also created a Facebook page where I will also provide deals along with articles of interest in the travel world, so be sure to visit there and click like. You can do that on the menu to the side also.
A Love For Travel, now not only my blog but my business, will focus on providing personalized travel planning to help you make all your vacation dreams a reality. I will use my travel experience along with the expertise of Montrose Travel to ensure that you get the best possible vacation at the best possible price.
If there are any vacation spots you would like to see featured here on the blog, let me know and I will be sure to write a post about it. I hope you are as excited about my new journey as a travel agent as I am. Visit alovefortravel.com and give me a call or email me to see where you are going next!
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Lake Powell: Beauty Beyond Words.
09 Feb 2012 2 Comments
in travel Tags: boating, Bullfrog Marina, fishing, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, house boating, John Wesley Powell, Lake Powell, Rainbow Bridge, water sports
Lake Powell and the surrounding Glen Canyon National Recreation Area is located in the Southwestern part of the United States. It spans some 1,932 square miles of high desert landscape in southern Utah and northern Arizona. The waters of Lake Powell cover 13% of the existing Glen Canyon Recreation Area. Lake Powell was named in honor of the Civil War veteran and one-armed explorer John Wesley Powell, who led an expedition in wooden boats down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon in 1869. Every year over three million people visit the 186-mile long lake, and this past summer my family, along with some friends enjoyed a week this past summer there on a house boat.
- Captain and crew for the week.
Our journey began in Denver, the evening before our check-in date for the house boat for a pre-board party at our friend’s house. We are affectionately dubbed The Rat Pack for reasons that I may or may not get into in a later post. The picture is of the adults in our group and the banner that my wonderful friend Jen made to hang from our boat. As you you can see we are quite the motely crew.
- The Rat Pack
Lake Powell has a wide array of activities available, obviously most having to do with water. On tap for our guys this trip was the spectacular stripper fishing that has been long talked about for this lake. Almost every morning, and some evenings, either one or both of the small boats was going out in search of the excitement-inducing boils created by the fish. Throughout the course of the week, a “boat load” of fish was caught by the guys and some of the girls too.
- Catch of the day.
Lake Powell offers some of the most fantastic scenery. Among some of the sights we took in this trip were Rainbow Bridge and Cathedral Canyon. This place is a nature photographer’s paradise. Depending on the time of day, you can see some amazing variations in the colors of rock. We really enjoyed cruising along and pointing out shapes and faces we spotted in the rock walls.
Rainbow Bridge
Cathedral Canyon
For the water sport enthusiast, Lake Powell offers some of the best water in the country for skiing, tubing, jet skiing, wake boarding, and wake surfing. The water is absolutely beautiful and clear. The water temperature while we were there was a brisk 76-77 degrees, but the daytime temperatures of 100+ made the brisk water temps much more bearable. Of course, the shivering was a bit harder to control for the moon lit dips.
Levi took me on a ride at break-neck speeds.
Work hard, play hard.
When we were not in the water we enjoyed our time in our quiet little cove with BBQs, margarita parties, and horse shoes. One evening some of the guys even got out some kites to fly.
One of our parties on the top deck of the house boat.
Our trip to Lake Powell is one that I hope my children will remember for a lifetime and want to bring their children on some day. The beauty of the sandstone cliffs will forever live in my memory and I hope to see it again many more times in the years to come.
More good times…..
One of the small boats heading out to explore and play.
Some of the beauty that is Lake Powell.
Iceberg Canyon.
- Our home for the week.
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