Travel Talkers Toastmasters

Travel in the New Year was the theme of our January 5, 2023 meeting. Vernitta Brown was our Travel Topics Master and she asked us to comment on our best New Years travel experience, what interesting New Years travel we would recommend and any travel tips we had for travel on New Year’s Eve. Meghan…

Travel for celebrations and holidays was the theme of our December 15 meeting. Tym Myers was our Travel Topics Master and he asked us about travel for a last minute celebration, travel for a “destination” celebration, travel interrupted by a local celebration and travel plans for a “dream” celebration. Travel for destination weddings is becoming…

December weather is making us think about warm sand beaches and beautiful island paradise vacations. It’s time to start planning our Island Getaway! Our speaker at the December 8th meeting was Avis Russell. She prepared a panel discussion with a question and answer session to dig deeper into the meeting theme of “Island Getaways.” Her…

Some of us travel for business, some travel for pleasure and some are able to combine both to explore new destinations. Megan Burns, the Table Topics Master for the December 1st meeting, used the meeting theme, “Business or Pleasure,” to encourage us to explore the intersection of business and personal travel. She asked where we…

Our meeting on November 17 was all about Family Travel. The Travel Topics session was led by Avis and she used the theme of our meeting in her questions. She asked us about family travel with children, special family vacation trips, our favorite destinations, family travel tips and family cruise ideas. We learned from Tym…

Several of our regular attendees at Travel Talkers were not able to attend or attended the meeting late due to delays caused by Hurricane Nicole. Travel delays can be due to weather, equipment, staffing or some unnamed snafu. We’ve learned to be flexible and stay calm in the face of flight delays, lost luggage, missing…

Remember that feeling of finding someplace special, a secret location that only you know about? Our secret locations don’t stay a secret very long once we post photos online and talk about our trips. But we remember that feeling, that thrill of experiencing something wonderful for the first time. The theme of the November 3…

Each of us has a story about a travel adventure gone wrong–lost tickets, cancelled flights, luggage delayed. But even these mishaps, missteps and missed connections do not deter us from enjoying our trips. At our October 27th, meeting we heard two speeches and enjoyed Travel Topics based on the meeting theme of “Travel Gone Wrong.”…

The theme of our October 20 meeting was, “I want to go back to. . .” Our speaker, Viji Mahathevan’s speech was an enticing, poignant homage to her birth country of Sri Lanka. After leaving Sri Lanka with her parents and brother at the age of eight, she finally returned in 2016 as an adult…

The theme of the third meeting of Travel Talkers Toastmasters was “Travel on the Cheap.” Our speaker, Vernitta Brown from the BFM Diplomats Toastmasters Club in Nassau, Bahamas, added her low-cost travel tips to her speech, “Why Do We Travel?” Several members of her home club, BFM Diplomats, joined our meeting to hear her speech.…