After working toward running her own outdoor-adventure business, Kelly Kimple bought a company with a storied history only to begin an adventure of a lifetime: keeping a travel business going during a pandemic.
“Then two months later it was the global pandemic and everything shut down. My whole first year it was really hard. I didn’t know if we would make it,” Kimple said. “Marian did a great job of building the business. It’s one thing to come into this and just try it and have passion, but she was really so thoughtful about the experience and outcomes for people,” Kimple said.
“You can wait forever for a friend, for the stars to align and schedules to work out and for everyone to agree on where you’re going to go or you can just say, ‘I’m using my credit card and I’m just going,'” Finegan said. While many Adventures clients go on trips without knowing anybody else, people end up making friends who become traveling companions. Someone Finegan met on a previous trip has signed up to see the Galapagos Islands, too.
“The first trip I went on was very scary. I tend to be more introverted. I didn’t know what I was getting into,” Weinstein said.