Simply Going Places

  

Mission Statement:  Identifying and sharing exciting, safe, affordable, independent travel opportunities. 

 

The History 

Simply Going Places was created one day while Cheryl Weeks, the founder, was riding her red cruiser bike, dreaming of her next travel arrangement. She thought about the beauty of the many places she’d gone.  She thought about the joy that traveling inexpensively and widely had given to her life. She thought about the many friends and family’s photos she’d enjoyed from other's trips.  She simply wanted to share travel with others that might not feel adventurous enough or wealthy enough to travel.

 

 Cheryl's first book "Going Places" was a way to travel by journeying within your mind. The cheapest travel of all!!  That book inspired her to work on books that would allow people to actually travel, regardless of budget.  Those who want to be daring but aren’t quite sure if they’re up for their first adventure alone. Those who want to travel but are afraid they couldn’t afford it. Those who don’t want to travel on a tour bus but aren’t sure where to start looking for their own trip. Those who are just like us, average people wanting to broaden their world.

 

Fellow Traveler's Comments 

 

   "Cheryl's travel style is well researched but

   flexible.  This allows the trips she plans to be

   open for authentic exposure to an area and

   it's people at a reasonable price.  Although

   her trips are of the non-handholding variety,

   wouldn't consider them imprudent or unsafe. 

   She avoids the well-worn travel

   routes which remove you from all exposure of

   an area's reality.  That being said, she

   won't make you hack through the jungle or

   sleep with snakes either." 

                                  -Tim McConnell