My love of international travel began with a student teaching program in New Zealand. I followed that with a year teaching English as a Second Language in South Korea, which offered excellent proximity to other destinations like Hong Kong, Beijing, and Bali. I then embarked upon my own language study (Spanish) in Central and South America. I discovered that travel was addictive, but a healthy addiction, so I trekked for a month in Nepal, road-tripped through Western Canada, then sailed on a four-month voyage around the world with the Semester at Sea program, visiting ten countries around the globe. I also earned my PADI certification in Thailand, rode horses in Iceland, and camped in the Wahiba Sands desert of Oman. Always eager to expand my language knowledge, I did another immersion program, this time for French, in Nice, France. I’ve worked in expedition travel for more than six years, and have had the great fortune to experience Antarctica, the Galapagos & Peru, Alaska, the Canadian Arctic, the Mediterranean/Atlantic Coast of Europe, and the wild fjords of southern Greenland. The world is so vast and incredible, and I’m so grateful to have experienced so much of it.