by Bambi Wineland | Jan 3, 2017 | Adoptive Family Travel, Birth Country Travel, Heritage Journey, Heritage Travel
Transformative Travel and Experiential Travel are concepts that make a big difference in a Heritage Journey: When planning a trip to visit your child’s birth country, you should not only consider the size of the group you want to travel with and the places you want...
by Bambi Wineland | Dec 27, 2016 | Adoptive Family Travel, Birth Country Travel, Heritage Journey, Heritage Travel, Travel
Understanding the different types of heritage trips: After my last newsletter about the fears and concerns that prevent parents from planning a Heritage Journey to their child’s birth country, I thought I might talk about some of the fundamentals – different types of...
by Bambi Wineland | Dec 22, 2016 | Adoptive Family Travel, Birth Country Travel, Cambodia, China, Colombia, Guatemala, Heritage Journey, Heritage Travel, Our Children, Thailand, Travel, Vietnam
The Spirit of the Holiday Season! I love this time of year! The holiday season fills my spirit with love, hope, joy and gratitude! I have so many things to be grateful for – family, friends, good health, that I get to have a business where I combine my two...
by Bambi Wineland | Dec 7, 2016 | Adoptive Family Travel, Birth Country Travel, Guatemala, Heritage Journey
Last I shared with you I was in the middle of climbing Pacaya Volcano with my family as part our son Jac’s first heritage trip back to his motherland, Guatemala. You may recall, we were scrambling to the top just as I realized the horses passed the tree where I...
by Bambi Wineland | Dec 14, 2016 | Adoptive Family Travel, Birth Country Travel, Heritage Journey, Heritage Travel, Our Children, Travel
Today I was on the phone with an old client and we were talking about our children. It was so good to catch up with her but it reminded me of our first couple of conversations — when she was trying to decide how to plan a Heritage Journey for her son. She had...
by Bambi Wineland | Dec 1, 2016 | Adoptive Family Travel, Birth Country Travel, Guatemala, Heritage Journey, Heritage Travel
Climbing Pacaya Volcano for the second time in a year was no historic climbing accomplishment, but climbing it with my 10-year-old son, Jac — who is from Guatemala, made this climb monumental. So on December 30, 2014, I embarked on one of the most important...
