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they love travel and care about their personal relationships.
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Keith Epstein’s passion for travel has taken him all over the world. When he was an independent-minded boy of ten, his parents unleashed him on the London Underground with a map, some money, and told him they would see him at the end of the day. Perhaps it was the start of something big -- or perhaps they created a monster. Because these days he takes the earliest flight out and the last flight home, to get the most out of his travel time. Not long ago, he climbed to Camp Muir on Mount Rainier -- between planes, one from Alaska that morning, another back to the East Coast that night. Of course Keith prefers more time in a place, especially the mountains, and he is happiest whenever meeting new people and exploring exotic locales. Keith is by character and experience inquisitive, and curiosity fuels both personal interests and professional accomplishments. As an investigative journalist and travel writer, he asks "Who? What? When? Where? and Why" for a living. The "Why" interests him most of all -- which is why RelationTrips exists. Travel isn't just about destinations or activities, it's about experiences and relationships -- the "Why," the reason for going. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Keith's travel reporting and award-winning newspaper investigations have taken him across the globe. His articles have appeared in The Miami Herald; The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer, for which he was based in Washington D.C.; newspapers of Newhouse News Service. His RelationTrips advice column, launched in May 2001, runs in The Washington Post, for which he is a regular contributor of health and travel articles. He also develops Website content for the Discovery Channel. In addition to his love of travel, Keith has written two novels, has worked for an Internet e-commerce company, loves to garden, climb mountains, the musical and theatrical arts, fine dining, making and writing music. He is the father of two daughters who share his love of travel, writing, and exploring. Keith decided to transfer his love of travel, his first-hand experiences with human relationships, and his love of writing and entrepreneurial drive to the successful foundation of a one-of-a-kind travel site. Keith has traveled throughout Europe, Africa, Mexico, Canada, and the American West, and recently trekked for three weeks in Nepal, writing about his experiences for The Washington Post. He lives in rural Virginia outside of Washington, D.C., far from the madding crowd, where he can hear the crickets and swing in his hammock dreaming of his next trip -- but still close enough to Dulles International Airport where he can make a quick getaway. Keith’s personal travel philosophy is to
expect the unexpected, and to realize that it is in the reality and dreaming
of experiencing other places and people that we see ourselves and our world
most clearly.
To contact Keith, drop him a line at keith@relationtrips.com.
Dina fell in love with travel before she was old enough to ride a bicycle. She spent hours in the bedroom of her childhood, in northeast Ohio, scouring the Encyclopedia Britannica, marking pages of countries that she would visit someday. As a high school junior she raised enough money working after school at a local delicatessen to live abroad in Luxembourg as an exchange student. Once in Europe, she traveled widely -- and has never stopped since. Dina has a degree in journalism cum laude and a J.D. degree. After law school she meandered to Montana, and fell in love with the American West, where she moved in 1998. Dina is a writer who is completing her first novel, a lawyer, and has a background in marketing and training. IShe is passionate about her relationships and travel. She has visited Luxembourg, France, Germany, the former East Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Iceland, Canada, Mexico, St. John, St. Thomas, and St. Croix. Her next destination is Italy, Spain, and Norway. Dina’s dream trips will take place in Chile, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Indonesia, Botswana, Malta, the Seychelles, and Baffin Island. Living in Colorado affords Dina the opportunity to climb and hike in America’s Switzerland, toning her legs and lungs, but occasionally yearning for large bodies of water. Co-founding a company that focuses on relationships and travel was a natural for Dina, whose love of travel and forging relationships knows no boundaries. Her experience as an exchange student required that she lived with an adopted family in Luxembourg. She was also a host sister in the United States for exchange students from Indonesia, Belgium, Spain, Jordan, South Korea, and Norway. Dina learned true international understanding as a “sister” to Jordanian Muslim student Firas (dubbed “Fearless”) when, as a Midwestern teenager, she learned to accept the untenable: eating pizza without pepperoni during his stay. Brotherly love crossed national and culinary boundaries, as proved when Firas surprised her by flying from Jordan to Ohio to see his “family” for an American Thanksgiving. Dina’s travel philosophy is to always take a toothbrush, a clean pair of underwear, and several credit cards in her backpack. “I’ll try anything twice,” she says. “Once to try, and twice just to be sure I like it or don’t.” To contact Dina, drop her an e-mail at
dina@relationtrips.com.
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