Anchorage, Alaska
Being the wife of a man who works on the road has it's many challenges and advantages. I've been so fortunate to travel as much as I have being a travel agent but actually relocating to different places around the globe puts a different spin and perspective on the destination itself. I may stay at our home base in California the majority of the time, but it would be no surprise to say that I do much of the research when a new city is mentioned. I investigative and work on securing housing, utilities, restaurants, destination information and what there is to do and see when I go to visit. It LOVE being able to see destinations as a local and not a tourist!
As a travel agent, when we visit a city or destination we are brought in, provided transportation to one of the nicest hotels in town, and are lucky enough to be wined and dined so we go home and talk about and sell that destination and their activities. We see the good, best, and most popular. These familiarization trips (FAM trips) are a lot of fun, quick and get you excited to go back to our offices to sell. When Randy begins a project in a new area we go in as prospective residents. We fly in, find our way to an affordable hotel and begin our adventure. We meet locals and get a personalized tour from someone within his new office. They show us the tourist areas, which normally we are told to avoid and then point out what we need to know in order to live here. We are shown where to go shopping, good restaurants, talk about the local politics, how the transportation system works, what neighborhoods to watch out for and what the local people do on their day off. These "tour guides" talk from the heart and don't get a commission from the places that they recommend.
I have been handed the best of both worlds for a lover of travel.
Our newest adventure is taking us to America's 49th state and the Last Frontier. Anchorage, Alaska!!
Let our journey begin...
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