Happy New Year! The year 2023 has arrived, yet it felt like we stumbled, slid, and ultimately crashed into the new year, rather than gracefully transition from 2022 to 2023.
Mother Nature threw us a curveball over the last ten days and while many airlines were affected as airports shutdown and flights delayed or canceled, one airline had a total collapse, Southwest Airlines (we’ll be looking into this in the coming days).

We will also be publishing our first eBook of 2023, “OMG my passport is missing. Now what?“, this month.
What has been solidified, however, despite the fiasco of the recent holiday travel for so many, is that the travel bug is flowing through our collective veins and we are out there visiting new locales (or old comfortable haunts).
Your searches and queries show us two locales are of particular interest, Mexico and Hawaii, so you may rest assured we will be weighting our content in that direction to satisfy your thirst for information to assist you in assessing your travel risks.
We at Securely Travel will be doing our level best to provide you reviews of locations we visit, services we have used, products we have given a try or use in our travel. Most importantly we will strive to provide you informative content and briefings that you may use to adequately prepare yourself for your own travel
Let’s make every trip, a safe trip, together.
We close with our sincere hope your travel dreams come true and your resolutions for the new year are fulfilled. We’ll have Abba take us into the new year. Happy New Year!



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Christopher Burgess is a writer, speaker and commentator on global security issues. He has appeared on CNN, BBC, I24, China News, Bloomberg, CBS, NBC, and ABC providing commentary and analysis. He is a former Senior Security Advisor to Cisco and served 30+ years within the CIA. He has lived and traveled abroad for more than 55 years. He is the founder of Securely Travel.



Barbara Schluetter is an experienced traveler, having lived and traveled abroad for more than 20 years. She has resided in Germany, Canada, and the United States with her family of six children and a spouse who was a German Luftwaffe officer. She brings to Securely Travel her unique perspective honed over many years of travel both domestic and international