Laura Dix | Technology Systems Analyst

I’ve recently moved back to the US after spending 10 years in South Africa. I left for South Africa with two suitcases fully intending to be back in a year or two and returned with a husband, son and two cats (and a lot more stuff than could fit in two suitcases!).

I’m from New Jersey and I went to college at a small liberal arts college in upstate New York called St. Lawrence University.

My first independent travel experience was when I spent a summer on an archaeological dig site in Southern Kenya. The archaeology part I decided wasn’t for me (lots of sifting through dirt), but I fell in love with Kenya and experiencing a new place and culture.

Canada, Mexico, Costa Rica, Ecuador (the Galapagos), the Netherlands, Irelands, UK, France, Mozambique, Kenya, Tanzania, Namibia, South Africa, the Bahamas, and the Netherlands Antilles.

I lived in South Africa for 10 years working in travel and managing a systems and IT department.

I’m not sure if it counts as a travel story as I was living in South Africa at the time, but my husband and I got married at a game reserve in a small town in South Africa called Oudtshoorn. During our ceremony our guests were treated to views of elephants!

Indian or Middle Eastern.

I’m excited to work for such a passionate and friendly team. Being in Systems has the benefit that you get to know and work with pretty much everyone in the company.