Adventure Travel Media Source 9088 Smoke Signal Way, Wellington, CO 80549 Tel: 970-568-7423 Fax: 970-568-9125

Adventure Travel Media Source is the brainchild of founder Nancy Harrison. Nancy only started adventuring at the age of 40 when she learned to ski, whitewater raft and horseback ride while living in Winter Park, Colorado. She went on to live in Wyoming where she enjoys fly fishing, hiking and camping, sea kayaking, and many other nature-based recreations.  ATMS was formed in 1999 and partner, Bobbi Bolio joined the company in 2002.  ATMS includes a great team of media kit designers and writers who support the clients with their special brand of enthusiasm.

Nancy has two grown children and four grandsons, all of whom enjoy their special brand of the outdoors - fishing, hiking, camping, water sports and snow sports.

Nancy is a true Citizen of the West who has lived her entire life in the Rocky Mountain States. She has become an expert in her field of media relations and spends a good deal of her time each year teaching and lecturing on PR to groups such as The International Ecotourism Society, America Outdoors, the World Congress of Adventure Travel and many state and regional conferences and international gatherings.

Travel is Nancy's passion, as you can see by these photos. She spends part of each year on spectacular trips with clients. Nancy visits as many clients as possible to learn about their destinations and trips. Her motto is, “It’s never too late to have a great childhood.” 

See you on the rivers and trails!

Bobbi Bolio joined Adventure Travel Media Source in 2002 as an active partner. She brings to ATMS her experience in the hospitality industry as well as marketing, outside sales and accounting. She is currently the Business and Operations Manager for ATMS, working on all the financial, customer service and daily staff policy implementation responsibilities of the company. 

The opportunity to be involved with ATMS and founding partner, Nancy Harrison, is a dream-come-true. Bobbi and Nancy met in 1987 when they both worked for The Ranch at Ucross where they forged a relationship as colleagues and friends. It took nearly 15 years for them to both realize their dream of working together again as partners.

Bobbi lives in the Phoenix area where both of her adult children are also living.  Bobbi grew up in Wyoming, and loves the West, but Phoenix is where she loves to live.  With both of her children on their own now, Bobbi looks forward to finally taking wonderful vacations at the amazing destinations offered by the ATMS clients.  Her adventure back ground is as limited as her vacation list, but she is anxious to change all that.

Laura Ecklund lives in San Diego, California with her husband Eric and two children Lars and Annika (and expecting #3 April 2009). She has lived in all four time zones within the United States- growing up in Minnesota to college in Colorado to a brief one year stint in New York City to finally finding home in beautiful California. She loves San Diego so this is where she will stay! In addition to working for ATMS, Laura is a freelance writer and stay-at-home Mom that is very actively involved in the families activities. Before having children she worked in the travel industry for many years and has traveled extensively throughout the world. Her passion is travel and writing - which makes working at ATMS a perfect fit! She enjoys working as both the Editor and an Account Manager at ATMS.

 Carolyn Evert is a huge travel guru. She has been writing since before she can remember and traveling since before she was born. Carolyn has more than four years of broadcast journalism experience. During her time in television Carolyn did almost every job in the newsroom. Carolyn¹s passion for writing is just as strong as her passion for travel. Growing up as an avid RV traveler Carolyn had the opportunity to step foot in almost every state on the east coast. She would spend weeks on end in a travel trailer with her family which helped create a family bond that most never experience.

 Carolyn loves to travel internationally too, she studied abroad in Australia during college and has also been to France, England and Canada. Whenever she¹s not writing or looking for story ideas she¹s planning her next trip.

Carolyn also likes to figure skate, ski, hike and do yoga.

 Neha Shah is a tourism marketing professional and freelance travel writer. She has worked for a variety of visitor-related businesses in marketing and public relations. She grew up in Fort Lauderdale, FL, and was born in India. Neha has traveled whenever possible, and has been to London, Paris, Zurich, and a handful of different cities in India. She enjoys the thrill of exploring new and unknown areas and seeing how drastically different yet remarkably similar people are no matter where they live. Her travel, writing, family and friends are all extremely important to her. She lives near Raleigh, NC, and always looks forward to spending her rare free time with her two precious nephews.

 Kathryn "Kitty"  Cayo began her communications career as a broadcast news reporter working the “city beat” in a mid-western college town. Her love of travel launched her a career in the hospitality industry working as a front desk clerk for a major hotel brand in the city of Milwaukee.  She managed an in-house advertising agency for a hospitality management group, and was involved in the pre-opening of two national brand hotels in the Chicago market- organizing and leading sales blitz's and assisting with public relations and special events.  After moving to the south shore of Lake Erie in NW Pennsylvania’s “Wine Country,” she served as Promotions Manager for an ABC/Fox  affiliate TV station, Public Relations Director of an art-publishing firm, as well as Communications Director for a regional Destination Management Organization. Today she contracts her services through her own firm, KAC Communications Inc, and continues to write press materials and feature articles for several tourism interests. She assists in the production of an annual travel show for GO – (the third largest professional association of group travel organizers in the nation)   When not ruminating at a keyboard, she likes to travel, read, paint, sail, play golf and tennis and someday wants to learn to surf.   Today she lives amid 25 rolling acres of fragrant vineyards in PA but maintains strong ties to her Mid-West roots, an avid fan of the Green Bay Packers and UW Badgers.

Nancy Goodwin graduated from high school and blindly followed the crowd to college. She wasn't sure what she wanted to do, but quickly discovered a way to mix her journalism degree with the new-fangled "Internet" technology. Starting out as online editor of the University's student newspaper, she quickly landed an intern position at the Boulder Daily Camera. Her experience there led to a summer internship at the New York Times on the Web. When the internship ended, she was drawn in by the allure of the dot-com world, and helped create and coordinate web projects for clients including Churchill Downs, Franklin Covey and Spa Hyatt. After the dot-com bubble burst, she refocused on more stable positions where she could focus on the editorial responsibilities of updating and maintaining a web presence. She currently lives in the Chicago suburbs and is sharpening her freelance writing skills. She loves using her talents to help promote ATMS's wide variety of clients. 

When she isn’t traveling, Jessica Blair spends her time immersed in the written side of the travel industry – editing for a popular woman’s webzine, creating dynamic adventure travel media materials for ATMS and writing her own travel features and reviews. 

Residing in Royal Oak – the youthful, trendy hub of the Detroit area – Jessica spends her time enjoying the company of family and friends, meandering downtown coffee houses and boutiques, and (of course) plotting her next great escape.

Among her favorite adventure experiences are: zip-lining through the Tongass National rain forest, sea kayaking in Alaska, waterfall hunting in Hawaii and wine tasting in Nova Scotia’s Annapolis Valley. (Hey, wine can be an adventure too!)

  Stephanie Moreland, a native of Houston, Texas, got her start in the travel and writing industries after spending years in sales and customer service. After completing her Bachelor’s degree in Business Management while maintaining a career as a store manager at Pier 1 Imports, she took a leave of absence and traveled to Italy, Greece, and Germany. The trip renewed her passion for travel and writing, and she began contributing to a web magazine and radio show. She is now a regular contributor to several publications including newspapers, magazines, a radio show, and other freelance projects involving travel, marketing, and PR. Stephanie’s latest project will be a European volunteer vacation that will involve researching international volunteer programs as a means for travelers to explore a new destination in a responsible, economical, and fulfilling way. When she is not traveling or writing, she enjoys spending time with family and friends, exercising, being outdoors, reading, and socializing in general. Stephanie, who prefers not to claim to reside in any particular city, has lived for a year in Tampa, Florida, but will temporarily move back to Houston before departing for her volunteer vacation. With her sense of adventure and desire to travel, her future place of residence is yet to be determined. Stephanie began working for ATMS in May of 2007.  Visit Stephanie Moreland's website at www.morelandwrites.com/.

  Tom Lacock has lived in Cheyenne, Wyoming for the past year, while working for ATMS and the Wyoming Business Council where he is a public relations specialist. A native Iowan, Tom graduated from Buena Vista University in Storm Lake, Iowa where he donated his body to science through the Beaver football program. After school Tom worked as a Sports Editor at the Storm Lake Times for five years before moving to Casper, Wyoming to take a job with the Casper Star-Tribune. A connoisseur of all things football and baseball, Tom also works with the outdoor industry in Wyoming and enjoys hiking, biking, photography and writing.                                                               

Paul and Angela Lehman operate as a team for ATMS. Both working journalists with a background in the travel and hospitality industries, last year (06) they packed up their home of 25 years and together with Claudius, their Bengal cat, moved from Connecticut to New Mexico to start a new life.  

Paul traveled all over the world for the U.S. Government’s Commerce Department on the startup of the “Visit U.S.A.” initiative at a time when foreigners were being encouraged to visit our country. After he became marketing director for the U.K. hospitality group, the Rank Organization where he met his wife Angela in London. He started his own PR company, Paul Lehman Associates, specializing in travel and hospitality accounts, which he continues today. With a journalism degree from NYU, Paul has written extensively on theater, film and travel for a national newspaper group, and many magazines in the northeast. He is starting a new career writing for publications in the southwest. For ATMS, Paul researches, creates and edits his partner’s work.

Angela also traveled the world for a well known group travel company based in Washington DC, before becoming sales and marketing manager for Hilton International based in London, a position she held for 20 years, where she met her husband and where their son Mark was born. They returned to the U.S., where she became Conference Manager for General Electric and upon retirement, joined her husband’s PR company. She also has written extensively for a national newspaper group plus magazines on features and food, with a weekly restaurant column that was very popular.  She is currently re-establishing her writing career for local publications. For ATMS, Angela handles all the day-to-day client contacts, writing and computer transactions along with Nancy, Bobbi, Laura and the team.

A Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania native, Stephanie Forrest Yavuzturk originally joined ATMS in spring 2005 then took a sabbatical and rejoined the team in fall 2007.

Her zest for travel recently has taken her on a west coast tour of Turkey, a wonderful vacation in Bretagne, France, and a southeast tour of the United States. Her favorite Rocky Mountain region getaways are Yellowstone National Park and Santa Fe, New Mexico. Stephanie’s most detailed trip, never to be surpassed, was her destination wedding in Monterey, California. She’s worked in

public relations and marketing for more than 12 years, and also is an experienced grant writer. Stephanie earned a B.A. in theater-communications from Gannon University in Erie, Pennsylvania and an M.A. in political communications from Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. She interned on both sides of the political aisle (former Governor Tom Ridge and Senator Edward Kennedy), then took the campaign bug back to her hometown and helped win multiple Democratic seats. She currently is penning a children’s book series, and a book on managers and leaders in the workplace. Stephanie lives in Cheyenne, Wyoming with her husband Cy and they are expecting their first child (it’s a boy) in May 2008. When she’s not in front of the computer screen, she can be found in her flower garden.

 John Kloster began his career in travel as a tour director in 1973 after graduation from the College of William and Mary in Virginia.  He worked his way up to Executive Vice President of that company and then started his own Chicago-based tour operator, which he ran for seven years.  In 1987 he became Executive Director of MAST, a Midwest travel agency consortium, building it from 20 to 350 member agencies.  While there he received TRAMS’ annual award for innovative technological advances, as well as being twice named one of the world’s 20 most influential executives in leisure travel.  In 1999 Kloster became Editor in Chief and an owner of Premier Tourism Marketing, a publisher of group travel magazines including Leisure Group Travel, Travel Tips and Group Travel Directory.  Today he is President of GO, a professional association of group travel organizers.  He also serves as Senior Editor and contributing writer to Leisure Group Travel, as well as Account Manager for ATMS since summer 2007.  Two years ago he moved to northwest Pennsylvania to be with his close friend Kitty and her son, Durk.  John has a son, John IV, who is the owner of tanning salons in suburban Chicago and a daughter, Amanda (Buddy), who is a senior at the University of Colorado.  He enjoys biking, golf, reading and grilling.