Meet Sheryl Jeffrey — Owner, Agent, IT Desk …
Hi, I’m Sheryl Jeffrey — owner of Gettysburg Travel Co. and administrator of TravelHelpSTAT.com. I’m a Certified Surgical Technologist still scrubbing in Northern Virginia. Married with two college-age kids (one each undergrad and graduate), I live in lovely Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
I did not have the travel bug early-on; it bit during my years at the University of Texas at Austin. I can remember plotting to take out student loans and use them to visit Australia. (I didn’t.) In fact, I didn’t make it far beyond the city limits. Nor could I afterward, having majored in pre-poverty and graduated with a degree in journalism.
A few years of later, I received a pay raise by joining the U.S. Army (yes, that’s how badly newspaper work paid!) and began moving around. In my 10 years of active duty, I did tours in Panama and Korea, and finally made it to Australia on my mid-tour leave in November 1999.
Will is a retired SFC and electrician who treasures the time he spent in Germany. Specifically Bavaria, having been stationed in Augsburg. Together and dragging the kids, we’ve been making up for my lost travel time. After our 2017 trip to Iceland and England, I decided to enter the travel industry. Gettysburg Travel Co. opened in February of 2018.
Enter COVID about two years later. I spent all of 2020 chasing refunds for my clients and going back full time to the operating room. It was so stressful that many days I said I would never book another trip. But it is unbelievably rewarding to be part of someone’s extraordinary vacation.
Our medical community definitely needed vacations! When I ramped up the business again, I was determined to serve healthcare professionals with getaways that were worthy of their hard-earned (and difficult to schedule) PTO. I manage our special programs for medical staffers, serve clients (healthcare workers or not) by appointment, and run TravelHelpSTAT.com.
You can reach me by email at sheryl@gettysburgtravelco.com or schedule an appointment here.
