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Private
Motor Coach, Inc. Celebrates Its Nine Year Anniversary
Private Motor Coach, Inc. celebrates its nine year
anniversary on January 25, 2008. This unique travel company
provides “Anywhere-Anytime”™ escorted travel in a luxury
motor coach/bus conversion for up to 10 people in the US and
Canada. The company was
founded by Canadian Ed Lonsbary in 1999. In reaction to this
unique service and excellent customer feedback, Lonsbary was
awarded the 2001 United Motorcoach Association (UMA) Vision
Award for innovative travel. He is the owner, operator and
driver- escort on all trips in a luxury “house-on-wheels,”
Prevost XL motor coach.
Pharr, TX January 17, 2008
-- “When people hear about what I do for a living, many
respond enviously. They wish they could live their dream
like I do every day,” says Ed Lonsbary, the President and
Founder of Private Motor Coach, Inc. (PMC) This month,
Lonsbary celebrates the ninth anniversary of operating
Private Motor Coach, Inc.
Lonsbary has been
sharing his passion for wanderlust every day since January
25, 1999 when at age 51 he left a 26-year corporate career
and became the first to offer the unique experience of
freedom on the road in a luxury motorhome/bus conversion.
Lonsbary welcomes travelers aboard his “house-on-wheels” and
takes them anywhere roads lead. In the past nine
years, Lonsbary has completed more than 50 major trips and drove over 165,000
miles throughout the US and Canada.
“This is escorted,
private travel,” explains Lonsbary. “I pick people up at
their door, then we hit the road. Sometimes I have as many
as eight people on board, other times it’s just been me and
one other passenger. I’ve taken people in the coach for just
one day while others have traveled with me for up to six
weeks. Each trip is custom.”
Over the nine years,
trips have been as unique as his business model. “I enjoy
the trips as much as the customers,” quips Lonsbary. He
recalled one special trip that focused on AAA baseball,
Civil War battlefields, barbeque, and blues along the Blue
Ridge Parkway and the Natchez Trace, made a visit to the
Grand Ole Opry in Nashville and finished up in Graceland for
the for 25th anniversary of Elvis Presley’s
death; see
http://www.privatemotorcoach.com/elvistrip1.htm
,
http://www.privatemotorcoach.com/photoalbum-CT2002-2.htm
.
Lonsbary escorted The
Preservation Jazz Band of New Orleans to a performance in
The Hamptons. He gave terminally ill people their last ride
to their summer homes. He reunited families for special
events. He has helped to show off the splendor of Alaskan
glaciers, the wilderness areas of the Canadian Yukon and
wonders of national parks. Once, he even caravanned a team
of drivers to pick-up a fleet of used garbage trucks. Trips
have been for business, vacations and special medical needs.
One key service of Private
Motor Coach, Inc. is that it provides a travel option for
persons with manageable disabilities, who cannot travel via
air or car. “These folks can get off the couch at home and
go anywhere,” says Lonsbary, “because the coach can become
their temporary home while on the road and an escort is
always with them.”
In 2007, Lonsbary replaced
his original coach, a MCI-9 called “Patty’s Charm” with an
upgraded Prevost XL motorcoach/bus conversion called
“Dolly’s Pride.” As with the original coach, the
Prevost has all the amenities of a house-on-wheels:
living room, kitchen, dinette, full bathroom with shower,
washer/dryer, queen-sized bedroom, and a large storage bay
for bicycles, luggage, sports equipment or whatever needs to
go along on a trip, including wheelchairs if necessary.
Private Motor Coach, Inc.
began operations in 1991 in the basement of Canadian-born Ed
Lonsbary’s North Park home in Gibsonia just north of
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 2001, he moved the operation
to Whitehouse near Dallas, Texas. Now, he’s given up the
physical address and lives in the coach fulltime. “Nearly
all of the people who travel with Private Motor Coach find
my services on the Internet by going to the website
www.privatemotorcoach.com . Over time, I found that I do
not need a physical office. We trade emails, talk on the
phone about where and when they want to travel, and then I
take the coach to them. Without roots to a home or office,
I can position myself to better serve my customers.”
“After only two years in
business, the United Motorcoach Association awarded PMC the
2001Vision Award for innovative travel, but there are no
copy cats. Many people have aspired to run a coach like I
have. I give them counsel regularly but no one has yet to
take the leap. As far as I know, Private Motor Coach, Inc.
is the only company providing this type of custom, private
travel,” says Lonsbary.
Private Motor Coach, Inc.
takes up to 10 people “Anywhere-Anytime”™ in a
luxury motor coach/bus conversion. The company President and
Founder Ed Lonsbary left a corporate career at age 51 to
live his wanderlust dream and create this unique travel
company in January 1999.
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For more information about Private
Motor Coach, Inc.:
www.privatemotorcoach.com
To schedule an interview with Ed
Lonsbary contact:
Patricia Lonsbary, Vice President &
General Manager at
patty@glotours.com or call 903-839-2922.
To read what other publications have
written about Private Motor Coach, Inc., here are some links
to articles:
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http://www.privatemotorcoach.com/busride/
Our motto is... "Anywhere
- Anytime"
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