Who doesn't love to travel?!
Hello and thanks for checking out our shop! We are Mike and Brenda of Denver, Colorado, and we LOVE to travel. Love is probably not a strong enough word as the majority of our free time is spent trying to figure out our next destination and how to get there. Our favorite travel destinations so far have been Santorini, Amsterdam, Austria, Italy and Thailand.
We started Push Pin Travel Maps after we tried to find a map that uses pins to mark all of our journeys together and to help us plan future ones. To our surprise, we couldn’t find any quality ones we liked that were reasonably priced. So we made our own. We got so many compliments from friends and family members that we decided to share them with others by creating this shop on Etsy. Why should we be the only ones who get to enjoy them?! We started out small in our garage, while we both worked full time jobs. We knew we needed to upgrade to a warehouse once we were having freight deliveries come to our house and we started noticing the weird looks we were getting from our neighbors. As we continued to grow, we realized we couldn't keep working full time and also run our own business. Mike quit his job to focus his full attention on growing our small business. A year later Brenda also took the leap and quit her job to join the fun. Shortly after, we decided a change of scenery was in order, so we moved ourselves and our business to Denver from our hometown of Sacramento, California.
This entrepreneurial journey has been really challenging and also very rewarding. We absolutely love hearing from excited customers when they get their maps or when someone finds the "perfect gift" for a loved one. We hope that you like our maps as much as we like making them. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions. Our goal is to make all of our customers 110% satisfied! Again, thanks for stopping by and happy travels! :-)
Mike and Brenda