Fred has been relentlessly pursuing knowledge of the world ever since his first train ride at age 8! He got his start in travel in 1958 when he moved to Montana for a brief apprenticeship. In 1961 he headed home with his new wife, Tina, to start Frederick Poe Travel Service. Read more about our spectacular history here. These days – when he’s not traipsing off to obscure corners of the globe – he is the “travel consultant’s consultant”. Few can comprehend the encyclopedic knowledge in this man’s head! You may not know that Fred is also an expert map-folder, with the precision and expertise of an origami master.

Fred recently returned from another exciting round-the-world journey during which he landed in Hawaii, Nagasaki, Vienna, Algiers, and Istanbul among other places. He paid his respects at Catherine the Great’s birthplace in Szczecin, Poland and “found his angel in Algiers,” after injuring his foot in some ruins. He also visited a Stonehenge-like outcropping in the ancient city of Urfa in southeast Turkey, whose history dates back to Neolithic times. “My travels as usual have been bonkers. I can go any place I want to.”
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