ZECO TRAVEL TALK

Zegrahm & Eco Expeditions’ founders and directors all gathered in Seattle last week for their annual summer meetings and to start planning our expeditions for 2012. We took full advantage of having them all in town and planned a special cocktail party and invited our locally-based friends and travelers to join us in celebrating 20 years of collective history. We called the event our 20th Anniversary Recap, short for recapitulation, and asked Jack Grove, Peter Harrison, and Shirley Metz to share their favorite travel memories from past expeditions.

Over cocktails and hors d’oeuvres, our congenial group shared memories, made new friends, and reconnected with old ones. Among the highlights of the evening were two college classmates that reconnected for the first time since graduating, not knowing that they both now live in the Pacific Northwest and travel with Zegrahm. We also had three sets of grandchildren join us; passing on the tradition of exploration to a third generation is a tremendous honor.

A fun ‘recap’ by Jack told the story of conspiring with Peter to bring sea snakes onboard the ship while Peter’s action-packed tale described a caiman search in the jungle rivers of South America. We knew we were in the company of true adventurers when Shirley asked how many people in the room had visited South Georgia Island and a thrilling 80% of the room raised their hands.

With party favors in hand, guests and hosts alike departed with new memories and new friends. The video below and photo gallery reflect just a few of the night’s many special moments.