Peter McGowan

Originally from Ireland, Peter founded Students Love Travel with Robert Delorie.

He was fortunate to have parents who loved to load up the family car, drive onto a ferry, and then explore some part of the UK or Continental Europe as their summer vacation. As as a venture scout (older, mixed gender scouting units, with minimal adult supervision) he spent his youth exploring Ireland's back roads with friends on foot, bicycle, or train.

As a freshman in college Peter reached out to the recruiters at Camp Counsellors USA and the following summer he found himself working as a Waterfront Instructor at the Boy Scouts of America Yawgoog Scouting Reservation in Narragansett, Rhode Island. The following summer he headed to Cape Cod and picked up a job as a Deck Hand on the Hyline Ferry to Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard.

Peter graduated from the Waterford Institute of Technology with a Degree in Applied Computer Science (Software Engineering, Enterprise Systems) and was sponsored for a US Permanent Resident Visa by Digital Equipment Corporation. He spent the following decade designing systems for Healthcare, Finance, Media companies, eventually Hospitality at a company that specialized in consolidating student groups onto buses. That's where Robert and Peter met and wondered if there was a better way.

Peter is now a U.S. Citizen and lives with his family in New Castle, NH.