Member Snapshots: Middle East and Africa To…
… South Asia and America!
New Co-Coordinator Joins the TCC’s Virtual Book Club
Miriam Nadel has joined Ed Hotchkiss as a co-coordinator for the virtual TCC Book Club to moderate monthly discussions.
Miriam has been a TCC member for ten years and a member of the Washington, D.C. Chapter. She recommends you join the book club to read books you might not have chosen.
Her favorite travel book? “I’ll go with The Brendan Voyage by the late Irish historian, Tim Severin. He built a leather curragh to prove that the legendary voyage of Saint Brendan the Navigator from Ireland to North America could be true. I had picked it up because I was intrigued by an orchestral suite for uillean pipes that was based on it, plus it was a fascinating journey through places unknown to me at the time — like the Faroe Islands.”
Let’s welcome Miriam and thank her for sharing this volunteer work and responsibility.
Meet Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio (InKyOh) Chapter Coordinator Tim Hisney
Greetings, fellow travelers! I have always been filled with wanderlust. What is over the next hill? Or, around the next corner? Curiosity is the commonality for TCC members.
My brother Phil was once with the Ohio State geography department, and we have in-depth geography discussions — much the way most guys discuss sports!
I saw an article about the TCC in the BBC Travel section a few years back, which propelled me to become a TCC member. There was an
opening for a coordinator in our area (KY, IN, and OH), so I decided to volunteer.
My wife is also an avid traveler, and we aim to take 2-3 trips per year. While I’m over 100 countries on the TCC list, I’ve certainly got some work to reach 150. My day/night job as a long-haul 747 pilot has helped quite a bit, though. Most interestingly — or I’ve been told members will be envious—is that I bid a resupply flight to Diego Garcia to check that box! Lol.
Meet St. Louis Missouri Coordinator Phil Duff
I was bitten by the travel bug in high school at an early age. A cross-country car ride from sea to shining sea and then circling back across Canada, combined with a summer exchange in the Philippines, got me hooked. University was much the same. I traveled throughout Europe with my university choir, and sailed around the world for four months with Semester at Sea (where I met my wife, Bonnie, of 52 years).
Following graduate studies at Boston University, I joined General Electric, but a position at Maritz Travel Company in St. Louis enabled me to design group incentive travel operations around the world. I eventually founded my own company to handle U.S. marketing for 26 international DMCs, and today, I am an experiential travel advisor with Virtuoso supporting a bucket-list-driven clientele.
Bonnie and I reside in St. Louis. Together, our lives have been greatly enriched by visiting 121 entities on the TCC list and all 50 states. Fun travel trivia fact: I was in Berlin on Nov. 9, 1989, when the Wall came down.
