| About
Travel Connections
Travel Connections staff in front of our
new office
3715-3 San Jose Place
(around the corner from the old office)
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.
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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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 Jim
Monroe
Travel Consultant
travelguy45@comcast.net
Jim has been in the travel industry since 1992 and
joined Travel Connections in 2001. He was born and
raised in Southern California, moved to Seattle,
Washington, for 10 years, and then moved to
Jacksonville. Jim changed his career from accounting to
travel because it was much more exciting and gave him
the opportunity to travel more. Jim specializes in
groups, missionary and corporate travel. He really
enjoys traveling, gardening, and cooking. As you can
see, Jim is the only male in our office, and he is a
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 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.
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 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,
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 Betty
B. Benson
Travel Consultant
Italy Specialist
bbb2620@bellsouth.net
During the 35 years that she has been a travel agent, Betty has made
more than thirty trips to Italy and has traveled widely in Europe, the
Orient, and the United States. She has been with Travel
Connections for 20 years. Betty is a New Yorker, and has also lived in Los Angeles, San Antonio,
Tampa before coming to Jacksonville in 1954. During the Second World War,
she was a civilian employee of the Army Air Corps and of the Army
Chemical Warfare Service. She is a 1975 graduate of Jacksonville
University and, since 1974, has taught Adult Continuing
Education Courses in Italian language, in which she has become proficient
through independent study. Betty's
interests include music--especially opera--photography, and travel:
her own or, vicariously, the travel of others, in which she has a hand
as their travel agent.
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 Maggie Cossick
Maggie's
"official" travel career started in 1988 after an
early retirement from Southern Bell. She then
started "Life's a Trip" travel club. Maggie's from
Maryland and has worked for Bell in Maryland, New
York, California, and four Florida locations--all
the while acting as "trip planner" for her
co-workers. She's very active in Telephone
Pioneers and the Scarlet Red Hat Club. She has
traveled to 6 continents. Her group trips are from
1 to 23 days. Her passions: travel, music, theatre
and food...and her trips reflect that. Maggie lives
each day with her motto "Life's a Trip."
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 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. |
 Sandra
Crowley
Accounting
scrowley@goawayplease.com
Sandra started with Travel Connections in 2007. She has
worked in the travel industry accounting since 1991.
Sandra was born and raised in Jacksonville. She is
active in the Clay County Seminole Booster Club and
community service for Hospice and United Way. She enjoys
traveling, cooking, and spending time with her grandson. |
 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.
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