Category: Message From the President

It is 1963 and I am feeling a special kind of excitement. I am a young teenager and my folks are loading the family station wagon for an all-night trip across three states to see our relatives in Ohio. Fast forward fifty-plus years; this time it is December 2021 and I am taking my first…

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It’s 1979, my parents dressed me up, and I’m ready to take my first flight to Honolulu, Hawaii on WardAir. To secure the best possible seats at the front of the 747-200, our family made sure to arrive at the airport ridiculously early. We did it! Having never flown, part of me was scared, anxious…

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Have you ever played whack-a-mole? It’s the time-sensitive carnival game in which the plastic mole pops up out of one of nine slots and you win by whacking it the most with your rubber mallet. Welcome to travel: 2021 style! You’re ready to go, thinking you’ve got everything covered with a double vaccine, 72-hour nose…

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It’s December of 2009 and I’m about to embark on a two-month assignment with United Airlines. I’ve been selected to be part of a team helping to set up the Lagos, Nigeria airport operation. This should be an exciting moment, but it is met with mixed emotions. Why? Not because it is Nigeria, but be-…

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How do you reconnect to your past travels? Do you have a trigger that makes you think, “Where was I? When was that? Who was with me?” For me, that is music and my story begins with my dad cruising along Interstate 15 at 55 mph in our new truck and camper. It is the…

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The holiday season is upon us, and after a year of thwarted travel plans, it sure is easy to skip past 2020 and look to the hope of 2021. However, as travelers, are we not wired to embrace this type of adversity? Meaning, if we get excited about going to Socotra or enjoy the struggle…

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The “Codex on the Flight of Birds” was written by Leonardo da Vinci 515 years ago. He said: “Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.” So true! Airline travel provides most of us with…

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Today is April 10th, 2020, barely a soul on earth is traveling internationally. Can you believe that? We are grounded. What has happened? Future TCC members reading this message 50 years down the road need to know that the world has just been brought to its knees by a cunning virus known as Covid-19! This…

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Have you ever invested so many hours into planning what to write, you’ve read it and then say to yourself, “That just does not sound good enough?”or “I think that’s already been said.” I flossed the TCC archives and read every past president’s first message dating back to 2012. If I simply adapted those messages…

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It hardly seems like another travel year is closing, but it is that time again for us to wish you a Happy Holiday Season. A special thanks to all our Coordinators and those organizing smaller groups, for their hard work and for the many meetings held this last year. And most of all, thanks to…

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