by Mary Charleson | Sep 12, 2020 | USA
Had I known last September 2019, when I drove the Bear Tooth Mountain Highway from Billings Montana, on my way to Yellowstone National Park days before it would close for the season due to snow at high elevations, that America would be ravaged by a pandemic when it...
by Mary Charleson | Aug 5, 2020 | Europe, When a pandemic strikes
Our Ibizia rental car had come to a stop, somewhere close to the Czech Republic and Austria border, on a country road in the middle of seemingly nowhere. There was nothing on the horizon in our 360 view except fields of dead flowers, somewhat symbolic of our cell...
by Mary Charleson | Jun 18, 2020 | Travel industry news, When a pandemic strikes
By Co-contributors: Mary Charleson and Barbara Cameron Mary Charleson, the author, has been a marketing consultant, speaker and writer at www.fiveminutemarketing.com for the last 20 years. Since launching www.carryonequeen.com in 2018, a travel content site for female...
by Mary Charleson | May 25, 2020 | Canada, Travel industry news, When a pandemic strikes
If you’re an avid skier like me, you’re likely wondering what the next ski season will look like at Whistler. But, beyond the usual speculation about snowfall, the 2020/21 season is susceptible to where the current pandemic will leave us. It has been clear, for the...
by Mary Charleson | Apr 23, 2020 | Travel industry news, When a pandemic strikes
The travel industry has been sucker punched by this global pandemic. With travel restrictions, closed borders, grounded flights, and shuttered tour companies, accommodations and destinations, the whole industry has ground to a halt. Many businesses are on government...
by Mary Charleson | Mar 15, 2020 | Travel industry news, When a pandemic strikes
It seems so recent that we were cruising along at high speed, living life, and traveling afar. And then somebody slammed on the brakes so hard that most of us are still trying to make sense of it all. Instead of booking flights and making plans, we’re hoarding...
by Mary Charleson | Feb 13, 2020 | Canada
Ever since seeing the Molson Canadian 2010 Winter Olympic commercial featuring a lone hockey player skating an open frozen lake, with a backdrop of mountains, the camera in pursuit from above as he gained speed chasing a puck, I have fantasized about skating an open...
by Mary Charleson | Jan 26, 2020 | Australia/New Zealand
Rottnest Island (or Rotto as the locals call it) is an island 18km off the coast of Perth, WA, Australia. From Vancouver, Canada where I live, it’s just a short 14.5hr flight to Sydney – pretty much the other side of the world and the opposite hemisphere, then a 5hr...
by Mary Charleson | Dec 16, 2019 | Asia, Australia/New Zealand, Canada, Europe, Hawaii & South Pacific, South Africa, South America / Central America, USA
We’ve combed the internet for some fun, inspirational and useful gift items to put on your list this year, or under the tree for that hard to buy for traveler you know. Below you’ll find 8 useful, 4 cool and 2 inspirational gifts, plus 2 more that you...
by Mary Charleson | Oct 1, 2019 | Canada
– Guest post by Kim Little – It had been years of what friend’s hash tagged the #worstdivorceever, and it was almost over. Our family home was sold, and the buyer smelling a distress sale, had dictated the terms. That is how I became temporarily homeless...
