About Us
It all started with a set of missing keys … and the Peas have been friends ever since. Twelve years and almost five academic degree later the Peas decided it was time to start a business venture together.
After a particularly taxing month, the Peas felt the strong urge to just getaway from everything for a couple of days. Constrained by time and student and working mom budgets, the Peas set out to have a quick, stress-free mini-vacation in hopes to restore some sanity to their otherwise hectic lives. Days of Internet research later, the Peas conquered the daunting quest to find a quick, affordable and enjoyable trip. They set out shortly thereafter for what turned out to be exactly what they very much needed!
By creating this website, the Peas hope that they can remove some of the additional stress of having to plan a quick getaway by doing all the Internet research, itinerary compilation and bargain hunting for you!
Alyson M. Innes
Though many might think that I am a Type “A” personality, I am very aware of when I need to just ‘walk away’ from something and take a break. I am employed in a position that requires a minimum of 50-60 hours of office work per week and a certain amount of work-related (i.e. not fun but certainly required) travel. When not working full-time, I am a wife, mother to her four year old son, and homemaker. In my “free time” I love to play with my sweetpeas, travel (as time and funds permit), meet new people and take photographs.
Many of my first travel experiences were school related, including my first international vacation to Spain and Portugal during my senior year of high school. Since then, I participated in a field study in Iquitos, Peru for seven weeks while in my junior year of college, and studied in London, England for seven weeks after my first year of law school. I have found many ways to visit new cities, states and countries while staying within my budget. My most recent international travel was to Egypt (New Year’s 2008).
Dana V. Schulman
A little bit about me … well, I am a collector of degrees and one day when I grow up I will decide what to do with them. However, for right now they just look really great hanging on my wall collecting dust. I am a wine connoisseur, which means that if it comes in a wine bottle, I will consume it. I love animals, but managed to kill off my Nintendo DS dog - I probably should not own one in real life at this point.
Additionally, I love, Love, LOVE to travel! I love everything that comes with the traveling, especially the packing. I adore staring into my closet and deciding the outfits I am going to take; I love looking at the five shoes I plan to pack knowing full well I should only take three, even though my internal monologue is convincing me that the ballet flats look fabulous with the jeans I am taking and are an absolute necessity. I get positively giddy over going to Target and buying everything that I already own in travel sizes — and even buying some things I know I will NEVER use, but can’t seem to resist in their ever-so-cute petite sizes. And then, of course, there is the actual packing where I contemplate for ten minutes how I am going to pack everything in a small overhead suitcase because I have convinced myself that, under no circumstances, am I checking anything — even though I know full-well that it would be much easier just to put everything in a bigger suitcase and check it. I realize that this process stresses most people out (including my other Pea), but the challenge of it all is what really intrigues and excites me.