Transformational Journeys, Vacations That Make a Difference

"What is a Transformational Journey?"

"My life was greatly impacted by visiting the favela (slum) and the people who live there. I was taken aback with the joyfulness, smiles, pride and poise of these people in such conditions. It was unbelievable to me that they were so positive!"

Alexandra Moschell,
Buyer, Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, Mo

Take a Transformational Journey, and you can see the sights, and maybe return with a new outlook, too.

A Transformational Journey is a unique type of alternative travel. It avoids the beaten paths and the tourist crowds of ordinary group travel. It exposes you to lifestyles that may shake you up, even cause you to see your own life in a different way. It involves experiencing a culture "up-close" through direct interaction with ordinary people in a setting of mutual service.

TJ founder, Dan Hickey, explains: "The idea of traveling as pilgrims instead of tourists is foundational for us. We enter into other cultures at their invitation. We work in exciting partnerships of mutual service that can change lives in unexpected ways. The surprise is that it is usually the travelers that experience the changes.

When you find yourself working alongside a Guatemalan farmer who supports his family for a year on only two acres of land, your view of what is enough to have a good happy life is altered."