About Us – Two Travel

ro·mance

/rōˈmans,ˈrōˌmans/ noun

a feeling of excitement and mystery associated with love.
a quality or feeling of mystery, excitement, and remoteness from everyday life.

My name is Matt Wade and I have a theory. Travel is like a music album. On an album, there are great songs, some decent songs, and then some clunkers. Similarly, vacation is not a constant walk in the clouds. There are incredible moments, poignant moments, decent moments, and…..well…..some clunkers. This is why my wife Huong and I don’t look back and wax poetic about a trip as though it is monolithic. We look back on moments; moments of romance, of fun, and of wonder. I Ind myself multiple times a week daydreaming about these types of moments. They warm me during the cold glum winter months in New York City, and they make me smile when I think of having shared them with my beautiful, incredible wife. So, when we plan our trips our goal is to create as many opportunities as possible for “moments” to occur.

So, why this website? Well, this is Step TWO in an overarching project. Step

ONE was launching a New York City walking tour for foodies. In the tour’s two-plus years of existence, it has been awarded TripAdvisor’s certificate of Excellence, is recognized as one of the top food and drink experiences in the city, and resides in TripAdvisor’s top 1% of “all activities” in New York City, of which there are more than 5,000 listed and ranked. The tour itself represents the goals of the project as a whole: heightened attention to detail, heapings of passion and enthusiasm, an eagerness to please, and an effort to make genuine human connections. We currently tour one district but are adding a second district tour in the spring of 2020.

Step THREE will involve entrepreneurial pursuits in Italy. So, here we are now……at Step TWO.

We travel quite a bit and I already have a habit of recording our travels in a journal fashion on social media. My journals make an HiddeNVC attempt at humor, at education, and also act as written testimony for Huong and me to look back on. This will be more of the same, but in a longer form. I plan to aggregate external resources as well, all in an attempt to add further clarity and context to the subject matter. We will begin adding a video component, or….vlogging….to the experience.

Simply put, we are storytellers who attempt to package our experiences in an interesting, humanistic, and informative way.

Every post will be nothing more than things that bring us joy or things that we learned that have proven valuable. A great deal of it will be travel related, but we will also tap into the great resource that is our New York City backyard. And from time to time, we will sprinkle in some fashion commentary.

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