Media resources

About Adventurous Wench

Company profile
Adventurous Wench, established in 2003, specializes in high-quality active trips for women. Guests enjoy outdoor activities such as hiking or sailing, along with excellent cuisine, fine accommodations, and knowledgeable guides. Our trips are ideal for single women -- it's so much easier, safer, and more fun, than going on vacation all by yourself.

Our small groups create a very different feeling than large tour groups do. Guests soon come to feel like they're out with a group of friends, rather than being herded about. Most of our guests are solo travelers, and even if you come on your own, you'll soon feel like you're with friends.

Most of our guests are single women, but we get about 30% married women, too. Perhaps their husband doesn't like to travel, or only enjoys fishing trips. This is a great way to take separate vacations they can both feel good about.

Trips vary from a 3-day hiking trip to Sedona, to a 7-day sailing trip in the Virgin Islands, to an 11-day Patagonia exploration (and many other options too).

Founder & history
Adventurous Wench was founded in 2003 by Deanna Keahey. That's me. I've been an avid traveler and adventurer most of my life.

I spent years in a corporate career, when work was a way to pay for vacations. About the same time I realized that climbing the company ladder held no further appeal, I also ended up single, for the first time since college. Now I had nobody to travel with.

As I got into the "world of single women" and learned how different that life is, I also met many other women in similar circumstances. You want to travel, but have nobody to go with. Most tour groups are full of couples, and it's not so fun to be the odd woman out. Traveling with a group of women is a great solution.

For me, it all came together, and that's why I started Adventurous Wench.

Media mentions
Here's a partial list of media outlets that have talked about us.

Newspapers
Arizona Republic
Associated Press
Boston Globe
Charlotte Observer
Chicago Tribune
Colorado Springs Gazette
Contra Costa Times
East Valley / Scottsdale Tribune
Houston Chronicle
Kansas City Star
Khalsa News Network (India)
Los Angeles Times
Monterey Herald
Philadelphia Inquirer
Providence Journal
San Diego Union-Tribune
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Tampa Tribune
Travel Weekly
USA Today
Ventura County Star
Wall Street Journal
Winston-Salem Journal

Magazines
Aviation for Women
Continental Magazine
Delta Sky
Good Life
New Mexico Woman
Parenting
Scholastic Parent & Child
Skirt!
Travel + Leisure

Television
The Chat Room (AZTV)
The Pat McMahon Show (AZTV)
Getaway (featured segment)
TBS Movie and a Makeover
HBO Real Sex (This was an accident! Not explicit, and a funny story...)

Other Websites (VERY abbreviated list!)
Budget Travel Online
Connections 4 Women
Frommers.com
GirlGetaways.com
Journeywoman
Peter Greenberg
Road & Travel
SmarterTravel.com
Transitions Abroad
Womens Wall Street
World Hum

Press releases

Most Recent
Women Explore Sacrificial Cave & Climb Pyramids on Belize Trip

Earlier
The Recession Ate My Vacation!
Women's Getaway to the Red Rocks of Sedona
New Women's Travel Contest Announced
Mother-Daughter Trips Create Lifelong Memories
Wenches Visit the Middle Ages
Be an Actress for a Day in New York City
Layaway Vacation
The Girls Do Greece
Sailing in Style with Adventurous Wench
Adventurous Wench Gives Women Travelers the Information They Want
A Different Trip to the City Different
New Women-Only Travel Company Gives Adventure a Feminine Spin

Photographs available
You'll find a wide selection of high-resolution photographs available on our flickr site. Here are links to several sets to get started:
    Belize
    British Virgin Islands
    Sedona
    San Juan Islands
    Tuscany, Italy

You're free to use any of these with attribution. Please credit "Adventurous Wench".

If you're looking for something specific that's not on flickr, let me know. We have thousands of photos, so we may have just what you need.

Additional resources
    Downloadable logo

    Current list of trips
    Adventurous Wench blog
    Adventurous Wench travel store

    Adventurous Wench on Facebook
    Deanna on Facebook
    Deanna on LinkedIn