Awe Reflections.

It's been six months since I started this blog. It's easy to get lost in all my rantings and tongue in cheek comments, but sometimes you go back and look at where you started and you can't help but smile about it. On average it takes me about an hour and a half to decide and start a blog. About half an hour to write it, letting the words come with a natural flow that makes the piece cheeky and dripping with persona, but that usually leaves a huge amount of typos and run on sentences. Another thirty minutes are given so I can let Harold read it and listen to his brilliant comment and suggests (don't worry boss, that one was a free bee). And then another hour to go over it a few more time inserting images into the right places, ensuring that what I want to say has the image I pictured when I wrote it. 

The effort seems like a lot but it's merely a drop in the bucket compared to how satisfying it is when I finally publish. It's putting something out there, that came straight from my heart. I'm not writing these to work an angle for any company. Yes, I write about travel and there's a goal to make this about travel, that it's a vehicle to make me a better consultant. But I am free to write what I chose, so it's all me. The eleven hundred viewers are taking a deeper look into who I am and that's truly uplifting,

This blog has brought me inspiration and joy in more avenues than I ever anticipated. Of course, it made sure that I took some key interests in travel, helped me learn that I can pitch almost any destination I want without compromising my personality to do so. But it has also reminded me that I love to write, and being a travel consultant can do more than inspire my love for looking up exotic and creative destinations and experiences for people. It's a means of being a writer, fulfilling my dream to put something out there the masses will read and enjoy.

So in honor of the spark that lit the flame, I'm going to repost my first blog, as a thank you for making feel creative and helping me smile everyday.

"Today is my first official blog as a travel consultant. I'm new to the travel industry, but quickly learning the ropes with incredible enthusiasm.  I’m working for Epicopia Culinary Journeys (Epicopia.com) working for the great Harold Partain (he pays me $5 every time I tell people about how awesome he is). We book tours and create our own small group special programs all over the world. We make sure where ever you go it lives up to what you dreamed of and then some.

 

We have some wonderful associates one of which is Aliza Green (AlizaGreen.com). She is the Experience Director for our, Italian Maremma & Umbria: A Pasta Lover's Culinary Tour (we only have two spaces left).

 

I suppose I should explain my chosen name for  this blog. Ever since I started working with, Epicopia, every time I look up a new location for a tour, I’m awe-struck by either  the culture, food, or the beauty of the location. Everything seems like a fantasy. I started out only dreaming of sandy beaches with crystal clear water, but now I dream about the Red Square in Moscow, and seeing the breath taking Blue Mosque in Istanbul. So now, I do my research with wide adoring eyes feeling a rush of excitement that I never felt filing paperwork or doing massages… However there were a couple massages where stinky feet lead to me having watery eyes…

 

Join me for this new journey in my life."