Where are the Safest Places To Travel?

This is the article in our e-newsletter that is continued.

We are going to try and answer the questions today that many of you have been asking, over the last few months!

1. Where are the safest places to travel?

2. Zika Virus and other illness where can we travel and not get sick?

3. How do we protect ourselves when traveling?

Well, these are hard questions to answer, unfortunately! Our views on the World may not be the same as yours, so lets see how well we do here. 

Some of you may not agree with us, that is fine. Some may read this and get a new lease on life and other thoughts. We would like to hear about them. If you can email us at reservations@echevarriatravel.com; or post a comment on our blog at www.echevarriatravels.blogspot.com; we will continue this posting there.

After last nights events in Nice (France), when that truck drove through the celebration on the street of Bastille Day, which is France's Independence Day, similar to our July 4th here in the USA. Many people feel, where can we travel now that is safe.

That is the hardest thing in the world to ask anyone. Our answer is travel, if we don't, the people that are doing these terrible things win. They got to us. Right! Wrong! 

Nelson and I look at the world through different colored eyes, and not just because we are travel professionals and this is our livelihood. NO! 

For those that are new to reading about Echevarria Travel and who we are. Then we will explain!

I (Cheryl Echevarria) have type 1 diabetes since I was a child, I never had any of the complications for this disease until I was an adult. Starting in my early 20s, I had found out that I had diabetic retinopathy, doctors told me that they will try and keep my vision for as long as they could, we move forward to December 10, 2001 my field of vision became so bad that I had to stop driving, and had become legally blind, I am now almost totally blind, I can still see color, shapes out of 1 eye. I also found out that while this  was going on back in 2001, that I was going into kidney failure, End Stage Renal Disease, within 3 months of finding this out, I had to go on dialysis (May 5, 2002). On August 23, 2005, I had received a life saving living donor Kidney Transplant (This year makes 11 years). A friend of mine, who is no longer with us, Steve Carroll, passed away about 5 years now from a fast moving cancer.

Just an FYI, we were not businesses owners until October 11, 2008. That is 3 years after receiving my transplant, getting all the blindness skills I needed to take back my life, so I can move on and help to take care of my family. We also became advocates to make sure that anyone looking to travel independently, especially the blind community, can life the live they want.

Nelson also almost became paralized. When I met my husband, back in 1992! He had just suffered an accident at his job, this caused 4 herniated discs in his lower back. He was walking fine, but the doctors kept saying that they wanted to do back surgery on him. He also suffers from asthma. He said no to the surgery. But today, after losing a lot of weight and changing his diet after I  became deathly sick. He very rarely feels a twinge in his back, and hasn't had an asthma attack since 2006.

Why do I tell you all of this about us? Because, life is to short to be asking is it safe outside the front door. 

I always wanted to see the Caribbean, we are doing that! I want to see and go up the Eiffel Tower, I can still do that! I want to go where my favorite author, Ernest Hemingway, wrote the "Sun Also Rises" about the stories of the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona, Spain or where the story Man of La Mancha some of you may know that title but the true title is "Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra written in 1605 and 1615. We are going there in April 2016. 

Our questions we get, where is it safe to travel, is up to you. That being said, we will always tell you to be vigilant and know you surroundings. Like you tell you children when they leave the house to go to school, or your husband goes to work, or you are walking or driving. Say a little prayer every day that you will be safe; make sure you have all your shots, make sure you read the information we give you about the location, what is advised when you are traveling to that destination. Don't take a lot of cash with you. Be careful who you talk to!

I am getting way long winded here. Where is it safe to travel? If you want to go there go there. Life is too short to not visit those places you only read about in a book.