Lystra Germaine Sam
Traveler {trav-uh-ler} noun: A person who travels or has traveled in distant places or foreign lands.
synonyms: voyager, jet-setter, adventurer, excursionist
Some things I love as much as travel: My family, sunshine, culinary experiences, words, books, music and my passion for living life well!
My initiation into travel was rather unexpected and came at the age of 4&1/2 when my parents decided to emigrate from Trinidad and Tobago to Canada with my siblings and I.
I wouldn’t get on an airplane again for another 12 years for fear that my life would be turned upside down all over again if I did. (can we say trauma?)
Instead, I did road trips with my family. Fargo and Grand Forks, Minneapolis repeatedly, New York, Pennsylvania and Philadelphia all by the time I was 13 years old.
I finally took to the air again at 16 to see more of Canada and I was forever changed, in the best possible way!
As a voracious reader with an insatiable sense of curiosity and a good imagination, by the time I was 11 yrs old I was dreaming of living in Paris, holidaying in Corfu while learning to speak Greek and trekking through the mountains of Peru before I made my way by ship to Europe where I would study in Spain and Portugal. Little did I know how far my imagination would take me because later on as an adult I had an opportunity to leave Canada and travel for 6 months and through manifestation, I turned that six months into over 10 years and lived in 7 different countries, sailed around the world a few times while working for a cruise ship company and visited dozens of other countries along the way.
Once I returned to Canada, it was obvious that I was called to share my knowledge of the world with those who were as curious as me and who shared my passion to see the world and create big, memorable, joy-filled experiences one country at a time. So, I became a travel agent. Since then I’ve eaten my way through the Caribbean, drank my way through Europe and excursion-ed my way around places like Alaska, Iceland and the Netherlands.
Ten years later and we have QmooniTi! It’s more than just a travel company, it’s a lifestyle!
I invite you all to come and join me on this exciting journey and let’s share our tales and adventures. Let’s taste the unique flavors of diverse cultures and graciously explore the creations and traditions and dance to the rhythm of the languages of the world as we jet-set from continent to continent leaving a little of the best of us behind for the world to share!
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” ~ St. Augustine