Planning the trips is plenty of work, but in picking locations, Anderson acknowledged a bit of selfishness, as she’s “just going through my bucket list right now.”
She learned in her time working for an airline how to find “really cheap ways to experience really amazing things.”
The group works with EF Education First, which organizes educational trips around the world. That takes some of the planning and stress off Anderson. She first saw how well this collaboration could work when 34 people traveled to 10 cities across Europe for 15 days for $5,000 in 2018.
“It was amazing,” she said. “I could absolutely not do this without a tour.”
The organization came in handy this year with COVID, as the “COVID care promise” covered hotels, meals and changes to their trip home. Knorr also said the benefits of a local tour guide made it so that someone with Anderson’s travel experience was a bonus rather than a requirement, allowing the trip to continue for those who weren’t sick or required to quarantine.