Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Alaska Destination Specialist

Well, I completed my Travel Institute Alaska Destination Specialist course in December and passed the exam - so it's official! I'm an ALASKA DESTINATION SPECIALIST now! I also passed the extended course with Princess Cruises Lines and am a Princess Cruise Lines Alaska Destination Specialist as well. So good things are happening!

I've started my new course with Travel Institute now, Accessible Travel Specialist. It is fascinating to learn about people who want to travel who has one disability or another and the possibilities there are out there for them to travel comfortably and easily now! Special Needs at Sea provides reasonable equipment rentals from wheelchairs to oxygen and dialysis!

I'm a Baby Boomer - and as one of the largest growing segment in our population today, my parents are still living. They traveled all of their lives and now are facing living with Parkinson's Disease, heart disease, arthritis and a plethora of other ailments - all which lead to them not getting around as easy as they used to. We enjoy traveling with them, and having done that several times, I decided that this is an area that I would like to learn more about and be able to help people travel who would normally say "I can't do that anymore". YES YOU CAN!