In Business Since 1985
Ball Travel Service launched in the spring of 2014 to bring family, friends and love ones together across the miles even with health, mobility or time constraints. Our services are also ideal for individuals who do not want to travel alone, but would like an experienced travel concierge to accompany them on excursions or vacations to places they have always wanted to visit.
Our location in the East Lansing, Michigan area offers easy access and affordable fares through:
O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, IL,
Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport in Hennepin County, MN,
Metropolitan Wayne County Airport in Detroit, MI,
and many other major hubs with service from United, Delta, American, Southwest and many international carriers. At Ball Travel Service, we take care of you and your loved ones as though you were members of our families. To help keep that promise, we follow the Michigan Patient Advocate Designation law to protect your loved ones in the event of a medical emergency. Our experienced Traveling Concierges, Anitra, Bonnie and Ken, are available to help Traveling Individuals with all of your travel needs. Linville, Ph.D., has an extensive history as an innovator and problem solver. Dr. Linville founded Ball Research, Inc., the first of his business opportunities, in 1985 to address the underutilization of public-sector university herbicide field research data by decision-makers. During his previous eight years as a Technical Field Product Development Representative for Diamond Shamrock, Kalo Laboratories, and U.S. Borax, Dr. Linville spent many hours trying to summarizing university herbicide field research data. He soon realized that this public-sector data was reported in a frustrating variety of non-compatible formats, resulting in underutilization of data by decision-makers. Dr. Linville was well aware of the need for field product performance information in a standardized, useful format, and he developed software and databases to produce and retrieve field product performance information in a standardized, useful format. Today, the resulting products from Ball Research enable users to quickly and easily access this data. In 2002, Dr. Linville began researching additional opportunities for Ball Research, Inc. On the return from a business trip to Philadelphia, in November, a casual conversation with a fellow traveler, in the Red Carpet Club, at the Philadelphia airport sparked his interest. The fellow traveler, a defense company employee, was on his way to Bangkok, Thailand, and was talking about his nephew and his efforts to bring the internet to nursing homes in the Philadelphia area so that residents could receive pictures from relatives on vacations. He asked, "Did you know that most nursing homes still operate using paper?"
Beginning in January 2003, Dr. Linville began the product development research necessary to determine if there was a need for software programs and databases in the extended care community. The results of this research showed that there were, indeed, specific needs that had not been addressed. With his 17 years of business experience in the development of databases and software programs, Dr. Linville decided to use his expertise by working with the employees of long term care facilities. The experience in developing software for long term care facilities, plus on the job experiences with the problems staff, residents and families face, has given Dr. Linville a unique insight into the difficulties of growing older. Dr. Linville faced some of these same problems for many years while carrying for his elderly mother until she passed away at age 94 and 7 months. He has lived through many of the challenges that individual(s) and their families encounter daily. He knows the importance of emotional support, interaction and physical activities for impaired adults. In December, 2008, he experienced these dilemmas first hand when he had to send his Mother to Missouri and back unattended. She was homesick and he needed a respite from the responsibility of daily care giving. However, he was concerned about his mother's safe arrival. He asked another passenger if he would help make sure his Mother only got off in Kansas City. Fortunately, the passenger agreed, helped her off the plane in Kansas City, and delivered her to her daughter who was at the airport waiting for her. The return flight was a non-stop flight back to Detroit, so there was no concern that she would get off on one of the stops. Realizing that we cannot always rely upon the kindness of strangers for the care and well-being of our traveling loved ones, Dr. Linville again decided to put his experience to work. This time, his skill of 30 years as a travel planner setting up and juggling schedules through multiple travel venues was just the thing to offer respite and peace of mind to other busy or exhausted caregivers. And so, Ball Travel Services was formed, a natural and obvious extension to a life spent creating innovative, compassionate solutions for those in need. travel buddies, female travel companions, female travel concierge, travel mates, travel companion wanted, travel concierge wanted, travel companions for seniors, travel concierge for seniors, travel companions for seniors wanted, travel concierge for seniors wanted, personal assistant travel companion, personal assistant travel concierge, female travel companions wanted, female travel concierge wanted, travel companion for elderly, travel concierge for elderly, travel companions, travel concierge, male travel companion, male travel concierge, flying companion, flying concierge, find a travel companion, find a travel concierge, looking for travel companion, looking for travel concierge
