“Journeys with Jayne” tells tales of a travel agent | Local News

ASHTABULA — Ashtabula native Jayne Colin-Currie shares travels and tribulations of her 50-year vocation as a travel agent in a new e book.

“Journeys with Jayne” is a humorous and coronary heart-warming assortment of recollections of Colin-Currie’s escapades close to the environment. She draws from her experiences whilst satisfying a existence-long aspiration.

“I experienced tears in my eyes when I experienced the e book in my palms,” she stated. “It’s much more than I at any time dreamed.”

The 126-page reserve usually takes the reader from her childhood in Ashtabula to her adventures (and misadventures) of her travels about the globe.

Colin-Currie laughs when she recollects her childhood — “My full childhood I traveled probably a few blocks between home, university and church that was it,” she reported. “Little did I know I would go about the entire world as an grownup.”

She begun her career in 1971 at AAA, and it was not extended before her manager questioned if she would like to be a vacation agent.

“I imagined, ‘I have been to the airport 2 times, how tricky can it be?’” she claimed.

At some point, Colin-Currie opened her very own journey agency, Jayne Colin’s Journey Centre. Throughout the years, she took groups of individuals to the American West, Alaska, Las Vegas, Italy, Belgium, Africa, Taiwan, and many far more.

She and her husband, Bob Currie, retired in 2014 and moved to Leesburg, Florida. But she skipped her hometown, and they moved again to Ashtabula very last June.

She proceeds to escort 5 or 6 teams a yr, even nevertheless she is retired.

“It was a joy to take people today all above the entire world,” she claimed.

This is her initial ebook, and it tells her story, as a result considerably.

“The e-book is my tribute to all of the amazing persons of Ashtabula,” she said. “They are even now telling me to get teams alongside one another and they will go.”

Colin-Currie will be signing her book from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. June 11 at Excess fat Sally’s Warehouse, 1569 Laird Push, Ashtabula.

The formal guide start will be held from 8-10 p.m. June 16 at the Crow’s Nest, 1257 Harmon Road, Ashtabula.

The reserve is on sale for $20 at Fat Sally’s Warehouse, Dr. Thomas DiSalvatore’s workplace, 1956 West Prospect Road, Ashtabula and The Ideal Little Hair Household Salon, 1249 West Prospect Road, Ashtabula.