Travel. It's personal.®

What's In Our Name?

So what do we mean by: “Travel. It’s personal.”? 

We are passionate about travel and finding ways for all of us to create travel adventures that are experiential, immersive, special and unique.  Clearly, what is personal for you may not be personal for us.   To us when we say “personal” and “personalize”, it means “made especially for you” and “tailored to fit you”.  It is the opposite of “cookie cutter” and “one size fits all”. 

Marie enjoys travel adventures that blend historical drama and fantasy with real world locations.  Margaret loves to explore and appreciate the cultural connections of the people and the food of the places she visits.  In both examples a lot of time is spent on research and planning to find the stories that create these immersive experiences. 

For us making our travel experiences personal is an inclusive exercise.  At times we may indulge our own personal preferences to the exclusion of others, but more frequently making travel “personal” includes considering the personal preferences of our family and friends both directly (when we travel together) and indirectly when we ask for advice and input or by sharing our respective adventures, discoveries and fun times. This is what inspires our imagination in our quest to make travel personal.

We look forward to your comments and finding out what you think and what makes travel personal for you. 

All The World Is A Stage...

    Our career backgrounds and our love for travel became the catalyst that led us to formulate ideas for creating travel adventures through a "mashup" of entertainment and travel.  We knew we had something and we wanted to share it.  It's what set us in motion to start this blog and to create Travelore™, which literally means travel stories.  We use stories to set the stage for discovering the world.

    We believe that great stories create great travel adventures. When we hear the stories (the lore) of a place we visit, it comes to life.  Stories reveal the history, myths and folklore and connect us to the drama and the romance behind the traditions that influence each culture and define its people and its social structures – its economy, its government, its religions, its style, its art and architecture, its music, its food, its drink and its celebrations.   

    At the moment we are creating our first Travelore™ stories. Eventually we will produce these stories to be downloadable for playback on mobile media devices.  In the meantime we have decided to share the alpha (printable) version with you.

    Location-based storytelling that transports you through place and time...

    Look for our first Travelore™ stories in the coming weeks and months.

Who We Are & Why Travel

Marie Miller
Concept & Art Director/Environmental Designer

    Working for many years in entertainment, designing theme parks, museums, etc. allowed me to travel.  I always look for the back story to the places I visited.  I love to discover environments around the world.  Each location has its themes, stories and unique beauty.  The people, the culture, the architecture, and the history, the lore of how it became the place it is today, are the elements of travel that  make my experiences unforgettable.

Margaret Zola
Tour Director/Leisure Travel Product Manager

    As a tour director and product manager, I have been able to share my love for places and cultures with others.  Over the years I came to realized that flights, hotels, tour buses and rental cars don't usually make very exciting entries in our travel memory books.  What we treasure are our experiences with family and friends and the discoveries we make about ourselves and the places we visit.

Travel Threads...
    We got acquainted through Marie's sister, Cheri.  Coming from different worlds of employment, we found we share a common thread or as the German's say: "a red thread" that ran through our collective life's stories -- we love great travel adventures.