Our People

We have a great staff that is ready and waiting to help you with creating a great vacation just for you.  The staff has many years of personal experience in traveling in the United States, Canada and abroad.  We specialize in the western half of the US and Canada (and Florida!) because it's where we love to spend most of our free time.  It's pretty much a guarantee that one of us has been to the destination that we're recommending for you.

Wanderlust is a prerequisite for employment with Tracks & Trails. We get out there and get the real scoop on roads, trails, accommodations and restaurants. We also keep tabs on what's new from our broad network of people who live and work in the places you'll visit. We read everything we can get our hands on: brochures, magazines, Web sites. And we get lots of great ideas and feedback from our clients. All of this knowledge goes into each Tracks & Trails Western Driving Adventure, making every trip an incredible journey.

Click on the names of our staff below to read blog entries that they have authored.

In retrospect, it's no surprise that our lives together began on the road. One American, one Canadian, Sheri and I met on a bus in rural Spain during respective career escapes in 1989 and were married a year later. After working for big companies like IBM, McCann-Erickson Advertising, Deere & Co., Playtex, Mattel Toys, and the American Red Cross, we eventually decided that two weeks' vacation just wasn't enough. We had a big yard sale, bought a little travel trailer, and set off in our old Land Rover to explore our two countries for a while.

Our brief sabbatical morphed into a life-altering 2-year journey, taking us from the Arctic Circle to Guatemala and just about everywhere in between. We tried to reenter the fast lane for a while but couldn't bear it. So, in 1998 we formed Tracks & Trails to help other travelers see the best of the west - in days or weeks, not years. Our sons, Chase (10) and Gabe (6), now do quality control to insure that every Tracks & Trails adventure delivers on our promise to create indelible family memories.

Having tried everything from 5-star hotels to a tarp under the stars, our favorite way to travel these days is with an RV (Recreational Vehicle). It's a portable wilderness base camp for all sorts of fun family activities. We look forward to sharing the magic that we've found out here and sending you home with wonderful memories. Delighted customers are what make this all worthwhile.

Michael does a little bit of everything around the office at Tracks & Trails. His role is to provide support to the staff, making sure they have everything they need to help create fabulous driving adventures. As you can see, he's ready to tackle anything.

Michael joined Tracks & Trails in October, 2006 and has known Dan & Sheri since 2003 when Tracks & Trails was housed at the Grand Junction Business Incubator Center. Michael's eclectic business background (manufacturing, distribution, retail and professional services) plus his love of travel (he's been to every continent except Africa) make him a perfect fit to help T&T continue to grow and prosper. He's also an avid scuba diver. Ask him about seeing big fish and beautiful corals from his latest dive trip.

Karen is our newest trip consultant. She's been with us for two years and loves working with RV rental companies to help get the best possible RV for her clients. She's constantly learning about new destinations and is our Mountain West expert (Hawaii too, but it's hard to drive an RV to Hawaii!). 

That's Karen in the middle of the picture!  She's paying very close attention to our guide at the Fiery Furnace hike in Arches National Park.  Karen always gets the facts and the details and has great ideas for new trips and new services we can offer our clients.  Her clients LOVE her!!!

Lisa wears a couple of very important hats at Tracks & Trails.  She is the lead staff member for making all the reservations for our clients.  This is a big job and Lisa is very detail oriented, so it's a great fit.  She updates our extensive database of hotels, lodges, campgrounds and optional excursions.  Her hard work makes it easier for the rest of us when it comes to laying out the details of an itinerary. 

Lisa also helps out with clients as a trip consultant.  With all of her intimate knowledge with the details of where our clients actually travel, she can provide special insight including the best campsites out there!

If Lisa could travel 100% of the time, she'd be on the road.  We (and you) are lucky that she sticks around the office to help our clients directly and behind the scenes.  And she loves to fish!  Ask her about what to catch in the Grand Tetons and other fabulous angling locales.

Like most others on our staff, Nancy wears a couple of very important hats.  While you may work with her as your Trip Consultant, she also builds the vast majority of itineraries for clients that work with our other Trip Consultants.  Karen & Lisa spend a significant amount of time consulting with Nancy about the options that clients are exploring.  Nancy brings to the table her vast personal travel experience to many of the locales and specific destinations.  If you haven't figured it out, it really helps to be well-traveled to work at Tracks & Trails.

Among Nancy's favorite destinations are Yellowstone (where she once worked as a video production assistant) to Valley of the Gods in Utah to many of the destinations in Colorado.  Based on this picture, we could call her "Hollywood", but we don't think that she would like that since she's more "outdoorsy" than "big city".

Ann is always climbing a ladder - like in this picture at Mesa Verde National Park or in the office where she processes an incredible volume of paperwork as our office manager and bookkeeper.  For every trip, there are between 8-30 different suppliers that need to be paid.  That's Ann's job.  For every trip, there is an Adventure Kit that needs to be prepped.  That means countless brochures, magazines and internal documents that have to be sorted out for each Kit.  That's Ann's job.  Each of our Adventure Kits gets 3-8 documents that we create in our office called "More Abouts".  Someone has to proof all of that material each year to make sure that it's all been fact checked.  That's Ann's job.  Needless to say, we couldn't run as smoothly as we do without Ann's herculean efforts at keeping the paperwork flowing. 

Ann also has the travel bug, spending much of her free time in Wyoming, Utah and Colorado.