Tre’s Bio
Tre Witkowski’s passion for travel started at a very young age.
Her first trip was with her parents and big sister, in the back of a VW Bus when she was about 4 months old, as the story is told over and over again, she “cried an hour, slept an hour, and ate an hour on the way to LA and was flown home.” It was a miracle that her parents ever took Tre anywhere after that, but they did. And she grew up traveling the west coast in the back of that same bus.
Flying to LA and San Diego to visit her grandparents and to Washington DC to visit her Aunt Maureen gave her a taste for freedom and flight.
Tre left the US “alone” for the first time in the summer of 1999, traveling to London with her 8th grade class and Mr. Van. She was hooked. At the end of 9th grade, it was off to Nicaragua, Guatemala, and Costa Rica to test her Spanish skills and help build a school with Seed of Learning.
High School and early college was spent exploring the west coast by car/van/bus and taking several trips to Sayulita Mexico with friends.
After 2 and an half years at the local Junior College, wanderlust kicked into high gear and Tre took a semester off. She left for a month to China to visit her Uncle Pat who was working in Nanchang. Once home she unpacked, washed clothes and repacked this time leaving for 3 months to Europe with one backpack, a LetsGo guide book and a few e-mail addresses of family and friends who lived just over the pond.
Once back in the US Tre spent the next 2 and 1/2 years, slaving away at SFSU to finish her BS in Business and Marketing with a few short trips to Mexico and Costa Rica kept wanderlust at bay until she finally graduated.
With a degree in hand Tre’s new goal was to have traveled to 25 countries by the time she turns 25. A ticket to Bangkok provided the launching point to achieve and even exceed her goal, reaching 26 countries by the time she arrived back in California.
