Our Story A Little About Us We are travel professionals who have spent our lives exploring unique destinations and creating itineraries with bragging rights. Since 1987 we have worked with travel agents and tour destination managers, in many different capacities. In 1996, travel journalists from the Washington Post, New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle and other publications started finding us online. At this time, we were Crown Travel, working out of a brick and mortar building in Bridgeport, Connecticut. This opened us up to the world of the individual traveler! At first, we had sold other, larger companies set itineraries. Soon we started creating or own magical tour programs. We based these packages on the wonderful villages which we discovered, and the amazing people we met in these cities or towns. We also partnered with our world traveling customer helping make their dreams come true! And now Journey Out Loud has been born. Conceived to be a concierge travel company. Together we will find the perfect journey built just for you. This can be for a couple, a family, a club, group – and like our “2020 EuroChocolate Tour” to benefit an educational institution. Philosophy Our Top Missions We are committed to helping children and educators. We started with The Montessori School On Edgewood, in New Haven, Connecticut. MSOE was having a Chocolate Festival, in October 2019, to support teacher education. Speaking with a school board member the idea of linking it with a trip to Perugia for EuroChocolate October 2020 was born. A portion of profits from each ticket sold for the trip itself, will go to MSOE for their Montessori Teacher Education. What is your favorite educational facility or program? We can offer a counterpart of this program to suit your ideas! Our itinerary budget will carry a line item to contribute to your school or educational group. The choice is yours, but it must be education.