Category: TCC News

  By Tim Skeet Share your interest in contributing to this new article by emailing timothyskeet@gmail.com. The waterfront city of Helsinki can be explored for days, but with only 36 hours, use the efficient public transit. The ABC-zone includes the airport and a two-day ticket is €16.50. It can be used on any bus, boat

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Often asked, my name is pronounced “Kee-Keh.” As an award-winning photographer with National Geographic and storyteller with National Geographic Expeditions, I split my time between Florida and Colombia and lead journeys through Colombia Photo Expeditions. My project, Little Explorer, Big World, formerly The Adventures of Pili, operates under The Safina Center, which is dedicated to

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By JoAnn Schwartz TCC Board Member and Secretary The TCC has about 1,600 members out exploring the world. This means at any point in time, chances are your travels have probably crossed paths with some of them. My travels this fall took me on tours to the five Stans, Saudi Arabia, and Syria. On all

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Our congratulations to those Club members who have reached higher levels of countries visited. Well done! Diamond Members (300 or more countries) Karin B. Sinniger Pully, Switzerland Platinum Members (250 or more countries) Chu-Chi Huang Taipei, Taiwan Jill E. Melkonian Palm Harbor, FL, USA David Santulli Boston, MA, USA Michael Zoch Leipzig, Germany Gold Members

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The Travelers’ Century Club is pleased to welcome the following new members to the club: William Affif Mauricio Agrello Pretto Thomas Alexander Ryan Bergenthal Chris Blackburn Anthony Bolzonello Sherry Brecher Michael Calder Kike Calvo William J. Casazza Eivile Cipkute Jennifer Clayburn Bo Danielsen Corin Doregger Karen B. Dorigan Benjamin Flosi Gary Foxley Yves Gentil Patrick

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As of 2012, members must go to the TCC Forum to access the TCC Info Files. The Forum requires a user name and password to log in. TCC will continue to mail the Info Files to those who have paid the additional $10 ($85 domestic and $95 international). Back issues of the Info Files are

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By Susan Turnbull Susan is an ER nurse on a yearlong sabbatical to travel the globe with her husband, Gary. Susan was joined on this trip by fellow member, Melanie Thomas-Armstrong. Wallis and Futuna is a French Overseas Collectivity located in the South Pacific Ocean, 280 kilometers northeast of Fiji and 370km west of Samoa.

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By Bevin Clare Bevin is a professor at the Maryland University of Integrative Health. She homeschools her two children while wandering the globe. “Oooh, you better get travel out of your system before the little one arrives!” This is a common phrase spoken to those of us who are expecting a baby. That was never

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By Tim Skeet, Past TCC President The greatest TCC benefit is the opportunity to meet genuine people in this wonderful travel fraternity and New Zealand member David Horne was standout and those who knew him would agree. The Oceania chapter grieves the loss of David who passed away in March at the age of 81.

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St. Lucia marked my 100th country in December 2022! My love for understanding world cultures was inspired by my father’s family, who emigrated to the US from the Netherlands in 1949, and my mother, who loved traveling. At age 14, I read about explorer John Goddard in Life magazine, who had established a “Life List”

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