{"id":328,"date":"2020-09-28T08:15:09","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T08:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.freedomtravelllc.com\/blog\/?p=328"},"modified":"2020-10-01T14:31:22","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T14:31:22","slug":"1-oh-the-stories-i-can-tell-30-years-of-a-bitter-sweet-travel-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freedomtravelllc.com\/blog\/1-oh-the-stories-i-can-tell-30-years-of-a-bitter-sweet-travel-career\/","title":{"rendered":"#1: Oh the stories I can tell! 30 years of a bitter-sweet travel career."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This premier episode of Freedom Travel Podcast, Annie Collins, Owner &amp; Travel Architect, coincides with a poignant piece of history \u2014 the coronavirus pandemic of 2020.\u00a0 Following the disbelief, the shocking reality, a lifestyle completely restructured came the calm and reflection of my life and my career.\u00a0 I tumbled through stories that touched my heart, broke my heart\u2013stories that gave form and direction, and gently transformed me from a travel agent to a travel architect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Story Notes:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Life as a Navy brat, including living in Cuba \u2014 the subtle experiences that led me to the travel industry<\/li><li>Mother brings home two hitch-hikers from Switzerland<\/li><li>Parents retire to Portugal<\/li><li>1990 \u2014 The creation of Freedom Travel starts with my career as Ex Dir of Oriental Rug Retailers of America<\/li><li>Group Travel lessons and the Paint Portugal trips &nbsp;<\/li><li>2006 \u2014 Retired from NOMA and went full time with Freedom Travel at the same time of the internet explosion and Great Recession.<\/li><li>Success = Resilience and Blind Faith<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/001-oh-stories-i-can-tell-30-years-bitter-sweet-travel\/id1528364494?i=1000488584464?i=1000488584464\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>LISTEN NOW!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bc3-production-assets-cdn.basecamp-static.com\/3710130\/people\/BAhpBHXbSwE=--1f620c6d0a917cf896cac91539d24bf53cb1d105\/avatar?v=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/3.basecamp.com\/3710130\/my\/avatar-64-x1 1x, https:\/\/3.basecamp.com\/3710130\/my\/avatar-64-x2 2x, https:\/\/3.basecamp.com\/3710130\/my\/avatar-64-x3 3x, https:\/\/3.basecamp.com\/3710130\/my\/avatar-64-x4 4x\" alt=\"\" width=\"64\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This premier episode of Freedom Travel Podcast, Annie Collins, Owner &amp; Travel Architect, coincides with a poignant piece of history \u2014 the coronavirus pandemic of 2020.\u00a0 Following the disbelief, the shocking reality, a lifestyle completely restructured came the calm and reflection of my life and my career.\u00a0 I tumbled through stories that touched my heart, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomtravelllc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomtravelllc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomtravelllc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomtravelllc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomtravelllc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomtravelllc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomtravelllc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions\/354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomtravelllc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomtravelllc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomtravelllc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomtravelllc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}