How Do Things From Your Childhood Impact Your Travel? What is Impact traveling?

The word "Impact" - Can be a noun or an adjective, basically it means to strike something against something hard to made a difference.

Exactly, when you go and travel to a destination. It has an impact on your life from something in your history that is part of your being, and you want to know everything about that place. From the people, food, culture, and so much more!

As travel professionals, Nelson and I, always want to be different. Reasons why you will come to us over the competition. What we try and focus on the destination you are going to and not just the cruise lines or the all inclusive resort, or even a destination location like maybe Utah, like we are planning in the future or Spain.

We focus on why you want to go to that place!

Like for us, we love Disney, it doesn't have to be Walt Disney World in Florida, or a cruise to the Caribbean, Alaska, Europe, etc.

We love Disney because, Nelson and I grew up from the beginning of it all. Watching the Wonderful World of Disney on TV. Nelson is a little older than myself and can remember when Walt Disney himself would go on Sunday Nights and talk about a new place called "Disneyland", which just celebrated it 60th Anniversary in Anaheim, California. You would watch Mr. Disney bring to you the drawings and the ideas of how people can come to this magical place and from the very young to the very old and have something for everyone to enjoy. A clean place with Main Streets where he grew up with small businesses to walk into and buy maybe candy or and ice cream to the imagination of a little boy who loved a mouse that grew into the Mickey Mouse we know today.

So, when we go to places that have all of this and more, we turn into children, yes big kids, we are always holding hands even after 25 years of marriage, but we stroll through the parks or take in that ice cream soda at the fountain, or ride "It's A Small World" Ride for the 100th time, it is still that most wonderful place in our times.

Also, Mr. Disney, himself, was one of the greatest entrepreneurs our the last 100 years. From TV and movies, to a corporation that owns tv stations, and so much more! I love reading everything about him and his life. How he also gave back to different charities? We lost him way to soon but he will last forever.

That is a form of "Impact" that is part of why we travel and love to travel. I put why we go there again and again.

We also love different authors, or chefs, even just the people. We have many friends from the Caribbean, especially Jamaica, and when we had a chance way before we became travel professionals, we went and visited this wonderful Island Country. We didn't stay at an all inclusive resort, we stayed at their home, they took us to the markets, and meet the people at their church and ate their food and more. Nelson and I, want to show you the Blue Mountains of Jamaica, or how to make real spicy "Jerk", climb a tree and get a coconut or pick quenepas which is a fruit, sometimes called "Spanish Limes" they don't look nothing like them. They are tiny looking berry in my mind anyway, green with a hard like shell, you just bite slightly on the shell and it opens in your mouth and the sweet taste is so hard describe, but you kind of suck and nibble at it, because like a cherry it has a pit in the middle of it you don't eat.

But again, we went to Jamaica because of those that have an impact on our lives and we wanted to see where they came from.

It doesn't have to be Disney or Jamaica. We want to see and show you want Impacts you, take 5-10 minutes look over your life. See these things in life.

We will be bringing you in the coming year! A group trips to Jamaica; Utah and our National Parks; a trip to Spain, and that is just the beginning. You will have plenty of time once deposits are made to pay them off, and you will remember them over and over again and meet people we hope you will be friends with the rest of your life.

Cheryl & Nelson Echevarria, Echevarriatravel.com 631-456-5394 or reservations@echevarriatravel.com; now located in Orlando, FL but we service all the United States.