Her latest trip was seeing the worlds most beautiful islands by private jet. If she has to fly commercial, she tends to choose a first-class aisle seat near the front of the plane to combat claustrophobia.Yet the Bloomfield Hills inveterate traveler,Molded Soft PVC coaster with your custom design and colors. 83, has one big wish on her bucket list. 

Ive been to Timbuktu and Kathmandu, but Ive never been to the Grand Canyon, she says.Most of us plan our vacations and trips with a skimpy budget and a limited eye. But there is a whole world of travel for people with means that puts the lux in luxury. Its not cheap. In the past few years, Bright has taken two luxury private jet trips that tend to cost $70,000 and up plus visas, insurance and a single supplement if you travel alone. 

Five years ago, Bright took a round-the-world-by-private-jet trip called Crossroads of History. In April, she did Extraordinary Islands through TCS & Starquest Expeditions, a private-jet 24-day tour on a Boeing 757 from Hawaii to Samoa,I was looking for an option to Customizable Ear Caps to wear with my half. Papua New Guinea, Palau, Brunei, Sri Lanka, Madagascar, the Maldives, Bali and Fiji. They crossed the equator six times. 

These trips, sponsored by either specialty outfits or as a division of larger tour companies like National Geographic, appeal to a certain segment of travelers. (See sidebar.)Luckily, these days Bright is one of them. It wasnt always that way.Back in 1954 as a college student, the Harbor Beach native scraped together money to take her first trip abroad, to Europe. She visited 12 countries, including Andorra and Lichtenstein. She explored them wearing a proper hat and white gloves, the way young women dressed at the time. 

Then known as Betty Suida, she took a job in the interior/styling department at Chrysler, where she worked as an executive secretary for 35 years. She kept traveling as far and as often as she could skiing in the Alps, even venturing to the Soviet Union.In 1980, the Republican activist was drafted by her party to run against incumbent Congressman James Blanchard in the 18th Congressional District. Though she lost (with a respectable 33% of votes), she enjoyed every minute of the battle. She has met and known Republican presidents from Gerald Ford to George W. Bush. She has combined her love of politics and travel by taking 20 cruises sponsored by the conservative journal the National Review. 

Single for most of her life and with no children, she fell in love at first sight with businessman Thomas Bright Jr. three decades ago. In retirement, the duo traveled the globe ever more avidly, including taking 14 trips with the Dartmouth alumni association. He died in 1998. 
Seeing it allBy now, Bright has seen nearly every beautiful thing in every place. She has seen every grand monument, sometimes multiple times. 

The Taj (Mahal) is really just another mosque, she says, unimpressed. She prefers the lesser-known royal mosques with gold domes she saw this spring in Brunei.She has been on trips where she ate breakfast, lunch and dinner in three different countries on the same day.Shes not afraid. She travels first class, but she knows it does not protect you from random disaster. (She once heard about a Kenyan train from Nairobi that she had taken as a first-class passenger. A bridge collapsed. All the train cars were rescued except one the first-class car that plunged to its doom.) 

She is fond of reciting a quote attributed to St.customized letter logo Soft PVC bottle opener with magnet. Augustine: The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.Ask her to name her favorite trip, however, and the answer might surprise you. It is one she took to England and France with her husband in 1994, marking the 50th anniversary of D-Day. He had fought in World War II, and she saw the sights through his eyes. 

After he died, she didnt really feel like traveling again. But her bereavement counselor said, He would want you to.So she picked up her suitcase and kept seeing the world.Taking a trip by private jet is something few of us will ever get to do. So, whats it like? Cushy, Bright says. There is someone to do everything for you from filling out your arrival documents (all you do is sign) to putting stamps on your postcards. There are no airport lines. No luggage hassles. 

Her most recent trip had 77 passengers and nearly as many staff. They gave us an iPad with all the lectures on it, and a couple books, she says. They gave us $100 credit to put other things on it.In Fiji, her group got a VIP police escort. In some places, travelers didnt even go through customs. A chef, a doctor, lecturers, and a host of travel coordinators go with the group. If it eliminates spontaneity, it also eliminates hassles. Hotels are luxurious. 

My room in Brunei was bigger than my whole apartment, she says, gesturing at her spacious apartment with its white sofa, tasteful paintings and view of the woods.Under the radarSeven years ago, Bright moved from her Franklin home to a retirement community.She has some health challenges, including COPD, which makes traveling and taking medicine on time a trick when flying across time zones. Some of her meds crumbled in the heat of Papua New Guinea. 

And she doesnt really broadcast her trips.Last year, when I went to Albania, I had to tell the office I was going you have to tell them and most people who heard about it said, Why in the world would you ever go there? And I said, Because its there. Mary Small of Northville, who once traveled with Bright through the Middle East, says Bright is not your average traveler. 

She takes my breath away, Small says. She can travel around the world with one small suitcase, and is always dressed to the nines. I travel a lot, but she tells me of places Ive never even heard of. She is one of the most interesting people you can imagine. Her name should be Betty Brilliant. 
Still on the list?Bright has long belonged to the Detroit chapter of the Circumnavigators Club, for people who have been around the world. She has been to all seven continents, many of them multiple times. 

Her apartment is filled with only a few tasteful reminders of her travel passion mostly glass globes and paperweights. She brings out a four-pronged small fork from Papua New Guinea she got in April. Its a special fork for eating human flesh, according to the tag, which is still on it. But it will go back in the drawer.

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