By Philip Sheldon, CEO Key West: Florida gay marriage pioneers! Based on a clear statement by a Federal Judge on New Year’s Day, my home state of Florida can no longer prevent gay marriages, so it was with great honor and privilege that I was present at the first official wedding of a gay couple in Florida […]
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Thanksgiving in Puglia Guest Testimonial
By Michael Broussard This was my third HE Travel experience, and they have all been wonderful vacations, and all very different. I had been considering the Puglia bike tour for over a year, but at my age (60) I was worried I would not be able to “keep up with the pack,” even though I […]
Irish Adventure Development (Part 1)
Last year I joined the Adventure Travel Trade Association’s (ATTA) World Summit in Namibia. It was an amazing experience, and gave me fabulous ideas for a new adventure tour that we plan to offer in last 2015 or in 2016. I decided to give it another go and I signed up for the Ireland Summit […]
Gratitude
By Phil Sheldon – Thanksgiving 2014 As Americans approach our most important secular holiday of the year, Thanksgiving, I would like to give my thanks for the blessings of the past year. I would like to thank everyone who has entrusted us with their travel plans in 2014. This includes participants on over 40 group […]
Gay Curacao Tour, the Site Inspection (Part 2)
By Zachary Moses This is the second in a two-part series. To read Part 1 CLICK HERE. After a quick morning beach visit, we were on the road heading to the capital city of Curacao: Willemstad. The drive took about 45 minutes, and our destination was the sister property of the resort we’d been staying at for […]
Reminiscence by a Guest
By Zachary Moses I recently published a little note from my hotel room in Ireland, where I was nervously contemplating my next harebrained adventure, Coasteering. We had a plan to put on wet suits and life jackets, then jump into the ocean from one of Ireland’s sea cliffs in order to swim into the caves carved into […]






