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Celebrating 3 Amazing Years

At our June 25 meeting, we celebrated the completion of our third year as a club and our many accomplishments. You can view the entire meeting from the link on our Meeting Info page.

Member Paula Schwartz created a wonderful video to capture the highlights of our club’s first three years. Enjoy!

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Socks and Skivvies Challenge: Feb 1 – 28, 2025

Several times a year, our virtual Global Travelers Club joins together, around the world, to serve together separately. We have picked up trash, donated books, and participated in food shelf programs. In February, we are participating in a “Socks and Skivvies Challenge.”

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How to Stay Healthy on a Long Flight

As we embrace the joys of travel, we also need to remember the importance of looking after our health while on the road. In this article, you’ll find 20 essential tips, divided into pre-flight preparations, in-flight strategies, and post-flight recovery, to help you stay healthy and vibrant while flying so you won’t miss a minute of your upcoming trip.

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Global Travelers together in Florida

On Sunday, January 5, 18 Global Travelers got together at the home of Corrine and Mark Lewis in Largo, Florida, for fun, food, and fellowship. The next day, January 6th, Global Travelers met at Camp Florida in Brandon, FL to clean the trails from the debris that fell in Hurricane Helene.

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Help Wanted!

Our small but mighty Communications and Technology Committee needs your help. As a virtual club, keeping our members informed via social media, the web, and our newsletter is critical to our success. Smoothly run Zoom meetings and the management of our technology infrastructure are important, too. Our committee is the engine behind the scenes and, so far, we’re keeping the trains running on time. But, like all of you, we are global travelers who like to spend time in other parts of the world, away from our computers. If you have any of the skills described in this article, please consider joining us.

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Escaping Scams #5 — Why We Get Scammed

Chesa Keane, an Associate member of Global Travelers, is a long-time consultant in many aspects of IT. As members of a virtual Rotary club, we are all, by definition, on-line to various degrees. And, like many things in life, being on-line comes with risk. Chesa has generously agreed to create a web series for our members with tips for helping us avoid becoming the victim of online scams. This is her fifth installment, focused on why we fall victim to scams.

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Putting Together a First Aid Kit for International Travel

Things can and do go wrong when traveling, sometimes very quickly! And in some countries, finding medical care when you want it is a challenge. So it’s best to tailor a first-aid kit for the countries you’ll be traveling to and for the types of activities you’ll be participating in.

This post contains a checklist of items to include in your kit.

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Cuba Up Close and Personal

In December, Global Travelers president-elect Lenet Compton and her husband joined several other Rotarians on a magical journey to Cuba.  Here, from Lenet, are a few highlights of their visit.

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