About Traveling Matters...
Our passion is traveling—not just ordinary traveling—hand-crafted and successful itineraries that make our journeys unique and personal. For more than twenty years Margarita Ramirez, owner of Traveling Matters and a Certified International Travel Guide, has been developing and organizing journeys throughout the world.
In 1998, Margarita became deeply connected with the landscape and peoples of Ireland, married an Irish native, Peadar Dalton, and since then has continued to successfully take groups year after year to Ireland. “There is just something in the verdant landscape of Ireland that every time the plane touches the tarmac in Shannon Airport I feel a quickening of heart and soul, glad to be back home again.” Rounding out the Traveling Matters team with Margarita and Peadar is Rhonda Dubin, our administrator and webmistress.
Part of the success of Traveling Matters is our added professional training in group dynamics and getting to know each group long before the departure date. All of our clients come from a referral basis only. This contributes to the cohesiveness, diversity and personal quality that are felt among group members who travel with us. You can be involved in planning a trip for your group, whether for your friends, family or organization. Traveling Matters will partner wi
th organizations that would like to have a theme, conference or study component to the excursions. We work with dancing groups, art groups, professional study seminars and much more.
Italy, our newest destination country, was embraced by 22 travelers who took our maiden voyage in October, 2010. Traveling Matters spent several years researching the perfect Italian partners to add the best options to our journey offerings. Because of your enthusiastic reviews and a sold-out trip in October, Dorene Lucchesi, Italian expert and co-leader, will work with us again in the planning of special journeys to Tuscany and Umbria in 2012. Read more here.
We invite you to look at our 2012 journeys. Our trips generally sell out quickly as we limit our journeys to only one coach of travelers.
Take a trip of a lifetime through one of our well-crafted journeys!
~ Margarita and Peadar