Travel Like a Millionaire Without Being One (ePub)

SIGRID CARTERS LIFE STORY IS WORTHY OF BECOMING A MOVIE. This was true before she even turned 30. As an adventurous girl in her 20s, she and three girlfriends from Germany trekked from Colorado to the Pacific coast of Panama, where the group of friends took a canoe into the ocean, got lost and found themselves surrounded by sharks, just as bad weather set in. Somehow, they survived. The tide carried them to the shores of Columbia, where they spent time living with Indians. Further into their exciting adventure, they assisted biologists researching the Amazon rain forests. The chief of that US expedition later became Sigrids husband. A Peruvian filmmaker did, in fact, turn the ordeal into a television movie, but before the girls had the chance to see the movie, they were already in Chile busy continuing their lives most of us can only imagine.

It was her adventurous spirit that led Carter to set up her agency, Envoy Travel, in 1971 in Lubbock, TX, where her husband has established himself as an associate dean at Texas Tech University. Lest you think married life and having operated a successful business for nearly half a century has tamed her, Carter kayaks every morning, and a few days after we spoke she was on her way to a polar bear expedition in Churchill, Canada. Whatever you do in life is a big commitment, so it needs to be fun, says Carter, whos been to all seven continents. I love the travel business. There is nothing more fun in life than talking about destinations. And Carter has a lot of stories to tellso much so that she landed the cover of Travel Agent in 1992 and has since published a book, Travel Like a Millionaire Without Being One, to show the reader how she adventured, many times luxuriously.

Her zest for life is infectious. She personally runs select small group trips, leading people on a pilgrimage to Santiago, Spain, and taking others to the Arctic Circle to stay with Eskimos. Next Christmas, she will take a small group to a village in her

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