About Us

We're Ann Craig-Cinnamon and John Cinnamon.  Our background is in broadcasting and each of us have had long careers as high profile on-air radio personalities in Indianapolis, Indiana.  In fact, that’s how we met in the early 1990’s.  Ann spent 30 years in both radio and television, mostly as the co-host of morning radio shows and is a member of the Indiana Broadcasting Hall of Fame.  John is still a radio personality on the air in Central Indiana.  We actually co-hosted morning shows together for more than six years. 

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We became entrepreneurial around 2001 and have owned numerous businesses including a mortgage company, a dry cleaner, e-commerce website, and a monthly magazine that we published.  When an opportunity came along to buy a travel franchise, we jumped in with both feet.  They say “do what you love” and we love travel.  We started a franchise and owned it for five years before selling it and moving to Travel Leaders where we currently are travel agents in Indianapolis, Indiana.

 

Our travels are very extensive.  We have now visited all 50 states, more than 100 countries and all 7 continents.  Not only have we taken the typical trips to Europe and elsewhere, we have also made it our goal to see places that are more “off the beaten path”.  In that regard we have visited places such as Tibet, Myanmar, Cuba, Easter Island, and Antarctica.  Ann once lived in Tehran, Iran and has written a book about it called, Walking Naked in Tehran.

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In 2019 we traveled aboard the Trans-Siberian Railway on a 16-day odyssey from Moscow, Russia to Beijing, China, with stops in Siberia and Mongolia.  We chronicled that trip in a documentary, Journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway, that was distributed on PBS stations across the United States.

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We also seek out “experiential travel” and have attended such events as the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona, Spain; Carnivale in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany; Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Louisiana; New Year's Eve in Times Square, New York; and Chinese New Year in Shanghai, China.

 

We have gone gorilla trekking in Rwanda, snorkeled with sea lions in the Galapagos Islands, fed endangered orangutans in Sumatra, and followed rhinos on a walking safari in Zambia.

 

From the air we have viewed Victoria Falls from a helicopter, flown over Cappadocia in Turkey in a hot air balloon and watched in awe as the Northern Lights put on a spectacular hour-long show in Iceland.  We have sailed on the Nile, through the Panama Canal and in a gondola in Venice.

We have climbed the incomparable Petra to look down on the iconic Treasury Building in Jordan, hiked town-to-town in gorgeous Cinque Terra in Northwest Italy, and climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. 

 

Our travels include visiting Cambodia to see Angkor Wat, a ruin that was overrun by jungle as it sat undiscovered for 1000 years.  And we've visited Chernobyl in the Ukraine, a more modern-day ruin that has also been reclaimed by nature.  Walking through the eerie ghost town of Pripyat - that was evacuated after the nuclear reactor exploded - was an all-time fascinating and educational experience.

 

Our all-time favorite day was New Year’s Day 2008 when we rode around Easter Island on a scooter and encountered so few people that we felt like the last people on earth.

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Through our travels we also have acquired a large collection of unique travel photographs that feature the beautiful places, animals and people that we have encountered along the way. 

 

We speak about our travels to groups and organizations in a travel presentation that utilizes our photographs and videos that we have taken during our adventures.  You can contact us here to book us as speakers for your group or event.

We also have come up with a lot of travel tips that we share here, many of them learned the hard way.

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Travel is the best thing you can do to improve your personal knowledge.  It is an education like none other.  It makes history come alive.  It makes geography personal.  It creates bridges to other cultures.  There is simply nothing like seeing the world.  We believe in collecting memories and experiences, not just souvenirs.