If you are a PC person you know the command well… CTRL+ALT+DEL. Apple person; then you’re familiar with right click+FORCE QUIT. Those two commands seem to cure a lot of problems. Computer sluggish? Reboot! Computer stopped working? Reboot! Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)? Reboot! Spinning wheel? Reboot! They’ve said that the human brain is the one of the most complex computers in the world, so doesn’t it make sense that we have a reboot?

And that is exactly what will be happening to this column for the next two weeks. As has become tradition at TRO, we all take time to reboot around the New Year and I will return on January 7th refreshed, relaxed, and raring to take on 2019. And I encourage all of…

Pennsylvania-based Jeremy Brady is the National Sales Manager for G Adventures in the United States, a leadership position he earned after four years work in the field, educating agents and selling travel experiences through the tour operator’s large network of travel advisors in the mid-Atlantic region. Today, he applies the principles of servant leadership and noble purpose to coach G Adventures’ nationwide team of 10 Global Purpose Specialists (GPS’s) in outside sales. Together, they have achieved double-digit sales growth while changing thousands of people’s lives through responsible travel. 

Prior to joining G Adventures, Brady earned his stripes as a travel agent with Liberty Travel. His youth was largely spent overseas in Europe as part of a military family, an…

"People don't take trips, trips take people" ~  John Steinbeck

There's a word for happy accidents, those series of unplanned events leading to good memories: serendipity.  I am convinced the best trips are those in which we allow serendipity to go along for the ride.  On a trip to World Travel Market several years ago, I did something I do with some regularity and never with regret. I had always wanted to go to Glastonbury.  It was on my "someday" list. On the spur of the moment I decided it was now someday.  I checked out of my hotel and left London without any plan other than having a destination: Glastonbury.

The Underground took me to Paddington Station. I…

Years ago (quite a few years ago...1961) there was a Broadway Play titled Stop The World! I Want To Get Off. There are times when I find myself wanting to shout at the top of my lungs the same sentiment.

But, as much as we would like things to unfold differently, it appears we are destined to live out the rest of our years on this planet. With that being the case, we might as well make the best of it.

The good news is that it isn’t that hard to make a life worth living. More often than not, it is the little things in life that prove to be the big things. So, as long as you are planning to hang around a bit longer,…