About The Intentional Traveler

My name is Dennis and I’m an addicted traveler not on the road to recovery but certainly on the road to somewhere. I’ve been The Intentional Traveler for almost twenty years and with my wife Judi (OK The Intentional Travelers) We’ve been avid hikers, explorers and cruise enthusiasts . I’ve been retired for over fifteen years, and we live in Central Florida. My wife and I have been together going on fifty years and we’ve always shared a love of travel. While our business had us traveling internationally, after we retired we had the resources to pursue our love of travel and have now had the good fortune to visit over one hundred ten countries.

I was born in Washington D.C. and after high school I served almost five years in the Navy, spending much of my service at sea making port calls from the Med to the British Isles, Iceland, South Africa and a number of the Caribbean islands. After military service I went back to school and specialized in technical photography and engineering imaging systems, earning a couple of degrees. After graduating I took a position with a medical college setting up their photo systems and later with a technology manufacturing company working in photographic and graphic arts equipment as a product development manager both in medical systems and with the U.S. space program.

Moving to Florida we operated a business that had us frequently traveling around the Caribbean islands and our first born son had a passport at six weeks of age so the three of us could go island hopping on business. That son took his first steps in Saint Thomas and the second son started walking in Saint Croix. I can still recall getting lectured by West Indian women in Antigua about keeping the baby out of the Sun and us fleeing the islands as a Cat 5 Hurricane closed in – we caught the last flight out of Saint Croix only hours before Hurricane Hugo devastated the island.

To this day we still stay in touch with customers and business associates in the islands along with new international aquantences, considering them to be our friends and still stay in touch.

Since retiring we now have the time and resources to embrace our wanderlust full time and we’ve taken to traveling about three to four months a year. I started this website originally so family and friends could keep up with where we’ve been recently and over fifteen years this site has grown a bit. And yes, we still have a number of places on our bucket list to get to.

From Africa to Yellowstone, Alaska to Vietnam, Antarctica to New Zealand and Argentina to Tahiti we’ve visited over 110 countries and it’s our pleasure to share our discoveries and experiences with other travel fans. Thanks for visiting and I’m glad you stopped by…