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Jim
Seeley, 45
, co-founder and Program Director for the      ,
has been a certified fitness instructor in Fairfax County, VA for 17 years.
He specializes in water aerobics, yoga and tai chi. He has been certified by
the American Council on Exercise (ACE), Aerobics Fitness Association
of America (AFAA), Aquatic Exercise Association (AEA),
American Aerobics Association International (AAAI) and
the Arthritis Foundation. Jim teaches exercise classes
at several local recreation centers and is a fitness personal trainer
too. While serving as Program  Director
for
Jim has created a bank of nearly 200
certified water exercise teachers from across America
who qualify to take their own students on
fitness cruises.
is now a registered trade mark with Jim
serving as its popular Program Director.
He
is a 1986 graduate of the College of William and
Mary at Williamsburg, VA.
Jim is fluent in Spanish,
having worked 7 years in customer service for American
Airlines in Los Angeles, Washington D.C. and Miami.
He is single, but keeps busy with his parents and
10 brothers and sisters and their families. In 2005
Jim began producing and hosting a new TV show he
created on Cox Cable TV in Fairfax County. His bi-weekly
show is "Forever
Young." Special guests are local members of
the ,
as well as popular retirees in the Washington, DC
metro area who participate in various volunteer
projects promoting good health and social activities
for active adults. His television show is
a top rated program in both Fairfax and Arlington
Counties in Virginia, as well as in Montgomery County
in Maryland.
During his ten years escorting
fitness cruises Jim has become an expert on the design
and history of cruise ships. He knows all the deck
plans and layouts of each ship the club uses to travel.
He shares that knowledge with guests by taking them
on walking tours of the ships early in their cruises.
"This makes it much easier for a guest to
find his or her way about the ship during the rest
of their cruise," he says. "No other travel
agency adds this touch. We are happy to share with
our guests what we've learned over ten
great years of cruising the world."
Jim and Cynthia work for
Ventures in Travel, doing business as (DBA) the . Ventures
in Travel is a subsidiary of Ventures in Video, Inc.,
located in Falls Church, VA. where the company has
been in business more than 26 years. It is owned and
operated by Michael Williams of McLean, VA. Chief Accounting
Officer for both companies is Rick Bynaker, CPA, also
of McLean, VA. The club Fitness Host Coordinator is
Barb Batson of Nashville, TN. Chief Photographer and
Webmaster is Cliff Crittenden. Innovative Projects,
Inc., in Fairfax, VA, is the club's ad agency. Andrea
Dickerson of Annandale, VA and Matt Hilferty of Reston,
VA are Assistant Travel Coordinators.
The Fairfax County
Park Authority, where both Cynthia and Jim teach water
exercises each week, was named Best Park Authority
in the nation in 2006. Just recently their travel club
was named by Royal
Caribbean Cruise Lines as
its #1 Business
Partner for 2007 in the mid-Atlantic states of Virginia,
Maryland and Delaware. was
selected above 104 other agencies to receive
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Cynthia
Neu McCluskey, 59, is co-founder and Travel Coordinator
for the
She is a former newspaper and television news reporter,
TV News anchor and bureau chief based in
El Paso, TX; Washington, DC; and Moscow, Russia for
33 years prior to creating this new concept in exercise
cruises. Cynthia's favorite part of cruising is being
able to visit new ports of call and then recommending
to club members what sites they might like to
see when they arrive to those ports.
Cynthia's career highlights
began when she worked with the Fred Hervey Foundation
in El Paso. Together they created Sun World
Satellite News in Washington, D.C. In 1980 it was
her idea to create a TV news bureau on Capital Hill
that would satellite national news reports with a
local angle back to TV stations out West. In ten
years the independently owned and operated TV News
Bureau grew to report to 365 ABC, NBC and CBS TV
news affiliates across western America. By 1990 she
won permission from the Soviet Union to open a second
TV news bureau in Moscow sending similar TV stories
back to the USA via satellite on Soviet matters important
to individual cities in the United States. The
Soviet government permitted her to do this when Cynthia's
parent company, Sun World, agreed to publish in English
for the first time ever a Soviet free-press newspaper
that would be distributed in the United States. The
small, brave underground newspaper in the USSR at
that time was Nezavisamaya Gazetta (Independent
Newspaper). It became world famous in 1991 when
"it was the first media ever to rally Russians
to bring down Communism." This was
reported by the Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 1991,
on its front page in a 23 inch story describing
the "heroic
deeds that night of Russia's only Independent
Newspaper." When tanks rolled into Moscow late on
Aug. 19, 1991, determined to destroy any
free press or any idea of a free people in Russia,
it was Nezavisamaya Gazetta that continued to illegally
print and distribute itself across Moscow calling for
citizens to stand up against Communism. That
famous Russian newspaper continues to be
published in Moscow every week.
Cynthia
is a 1975 graduate of the University of Texas at El
Paso where she attended on scholarship.
She was married to the late Ron McCluskey, an El Paso
attorney. He was also the former chief of staff for
the late Congresswoman Gladys Noon Spellman of Maryland.
Ron and Cynthia's son, Patrick McCluskey, lives
in Austin, TX with his wife Shannon and their two children.
Upon creating
Cynthia was motivated to become certified by Aquatic
Alliance International (AAI) and to become a water
aerobics instructor herself teaching in Virginia's
Fairfax County Park Authority. "It was important
for me to understand what our cruise instructors
go through each day to create fun, productive
classes. I love what I've learned." she
says. Today Cynthia is also certified by the Arthritis
Foundation and is a Red Cross Certified Water Safety
Instructor who every weekend teaches preschoolers
how to swim. Spring Hill ReCreation Center in McLean,
VA., where Cynthia is based, was named Best RECenter
in the nation in 2006, the same year FCPA was named
the USA's #1 Park Authority. In 2007 Royal Caribbean
Cruise Lines named its #1 Business
Partner in the Mid-Atlantic states of Virginia, Maryland
and Delaware.
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