About Travel Connections

Travel Connections is a full service travel agency, in business since 1983.

Whether you need to travel or want to travel, domestically or internationally, we'll help you "go away!"

For business, pleasure...air, tours, cruises...corporate, personal, groups...even missionary travel...Travel Connections does it all!

You can email our staff directly, or click here to fill out a form that will be sent to a specialist in your area of interest.

Kelly Peck, CTC
President/Owner
kpeck@goawayplease.com

My travel career started with Travel Connections back in 1988. I loved my job so much that I bought the company.  I have traveled to the Caribbean, Europe and throughout the United States. If you are ready to "go away" or need help with your corporate travel, call or email myself or the staff of Travel Connections.

 

Margaret Ballard
Manager
United Kingdom and Ireland Specialist
mballard@goawayplease.com

Margaret has been in the travel industry since 1983. She came to the United States from Great Britain in 1970. She lived in North Carolina for 10 years, then moved to Jacksonville and started working with Travel Connections when it first opened in 1983. She then moved on to start her own tour company that specialized in travel to Great Britain and Ireland. Margaret has been back with Travel Connections since 1996 and sells all aspects of travel, but Britain and Europe are definitely her favorites. She enjoys traveling, gardening, reading, and walking, but most of all she enjoys spending time with her five grandchildren.

 

Kelley Ann Harran
Travel Consultant
kharran@goawayplease.com

Kelley Ann has been with Travel Connections since 2007. We are glad to have her as part of the team. Kelley Ann can help you with your leisure or corporate travel needs.

 

 

Jessie James
Travel Consultant
Group Specialist
jjames@goawayplease.com 

Jessie has been in the travel industry since 1985. She was born in Dublin, Ireland, and came to the USA in 1969. After living in several states she settled in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1979. Jessie worked with Travel Connections early in her career and left to start her own wholesale tour company that specialized in Great Britain and Ireland. Jessie came back to Travel Connections and has been with us since 1994 and she specializes in international missionary group travel. Jessie enjoys traveling, reading and crafts.

 

Betty Rohan, CTC
brohan@goawayplease.com

Betty Rohan has been a part of Travel Connections since its inception in 1983. She retired as owner of the agency and now works as an agent for the company. She belongs to Hadassah and National Council of Jewish Women. Betty has two grown children and 2 grandchildren.

 
Rima Muammar
Travel Consultant
International Travel Specialist
tcgals@goawayplease.com 

Rima has been in the travel industry since 1985 and joined Travel Connections in 2002. She was born and raised in the Middle East and lived in North Africa. Rima went to school on the island of Malta and attended college in Britain. She moved to the USA with her family in 1981. Rima likes to travel, bake, and make exotic dishes.

 
Mary Sandifer, ACC
Travel Consultant
tourms@comcast.net

Mary began as a volunteer tour coordinator for a Jacksonville museum in 1980 and became a professional travel consultant in 1985. A native Jacksonvillian, she has a great family of four children and six grandchildren, numerous relatives and an extended family of long-time friends. Mary formed her own tour company specializing in worldwide group and incentive travel in 1989 and joined Travel Connections in 2002. Once an artist, she enjoys travel destinations of art, architecture and history and is an avid advocate of local art institutions.

 

 
Elaine Vickers, CTC
Travel Consultant
toothntravel@yahoo.com

Elaine Vickers joined Travel Connections in 1987. She is a Certified Travel
Counselor and has traveled extensively in Western Europe, Australia and New
Zealand as well as the United States and Caribbean.  She enjoys her church
work, teaching English as a 2nd language and spending time with her
granddaughter and twin grandsons.