Bay of Islands sailing

“I’d LOVE to go to New Zealand but I just couldn’t go THERE without my husband.”  Over the last few years I’d heard similar comments, and in any business, listening to your clients is important.  So I offered a co-ed trip to NZ and led the trip this past February.  It was successful and we all had a fun time – but it is unlikely that we’ll offer future co-ed trips on our schedules.  The trip reminded me that I started this company because I love the team nature of traveling with women throughout the world.  With coed couples, folks tend to go off on their own when activities are over, and guiding such groups becomes a lonely endeavor.  One of the joys of vacationing with women is to watch everyone let their hair down and just totally relax and be themselves.  But women act differently when the guys are around, choose what to say and if they’ll speak or not and oftentimes defer to what the guys wishes are.  All that is fine – but that isn’t why I started this company.  Besides, there are thousands of trips for coeds and relatively few especially for women.  So many thanks to Paula and Bill and Mary and Steve for a fun two weeks.  But Canyon Calling is going to stick to the knitting and do what we do best – design and lead multi-activity, soft adventure worldwide trips for moderately-fit women.  Cheers!