Here is what it actually feels like to plan a trip with me.

June 15th, 2026, 4:17pm

Not the brochure version. The real one.

You have probably been meaning to plan this trip for a while.

Maybe it is the Disney vacation you have been promising the kids since before the youngest could even say the word Mickey. Maybe it is the cruise your mother keeps mentioning at every family dinner. Maybe it is something vaguer than that — just this persistent feeling that life has been very full and very fast, and that somewhere out there is a place where you could all just breathe for a minute.

You have thought about it. You have maybe even opened a browser tab or twelve. And then the day got away from you, the tabs got closed, and the trip stayed exactly where it has always been: in the future, waiting.

That is usually right around the time someone finds me.

The first conversation

When we talk for the first time, I am not going to hand you a questionnaire or ask you to fill out a form. I am going to ask you questions and actually listen to the answers — not just for the logistics, but for everything underneath them.

Because what people say they want and what will actually make them happy on a trip are not always the same thing. A family that says they want a relaxing beach vacation might actually need structure and activities, or they will be bored by day three. A couple celebrating an anniversary who says they want something simple might light up the moment I mention a cooking class in a city they have never been to. A grandmother who says she just wants to watch the grandkids enjoy themselves might have her own quiet wish — one nobody has thought to ask about.

I spent fifteen years as a Montessori educator learning how to hear what is not being said. That skill did not go anywhere when I became a travel advisor. If anything, I use it more.

My job is not to sell you a trip. It is to find the one that actually fits your family.

What happens in the middle

Once I understand who you are and what you are really hoping for, I get to work. And this is honestly the part I love.

I research. I compare. I think about your toddler’s nap schedule and your teenager’s need to feel like she is not being dragged somewhere. I think about which ship has the right vibe for your group, or which Disney resort puts you closest to the park your kids are most excited about, or which all-inclusive actually delivers on what the photos are promising. I think about the things you would not know to ask about until you were already there wishing someone had told you.

I will build you something. Not a generic itinerary pulled from a template, but a plan that was assembled with your specific people in mind. And then I walk you through it, because a plan you do not understand is not a plan — it is just a document.

I also stay with you. If something changes — a flight, a reservation, a policy, the unpredictable nature of traveling with human beings — I am still here. You are not on hold with a 1-800 number hoping for the best. You have a person.

What it feels like on the other end

The thing I hear most often, after a trip, is some version of this: it felt like it was made for us.

That is the goal. Not a perfect trip — there is no such thing, and anyone who promises you one is selling something. But a trip that feels intentional. Where the pace is right and the choices make sense and there is enough breathing room for the unexpected to become the best part of the story. When you come home tired in a good way, with inside jokes and a few hundred photos and the particular satisfaction of having actually done the thing you said you were going to do.

That feeling does not happen by accident. It happens because someone who cares about your family spent time thinking about your family before you ever left the driveway.

That someone is me. And I would love to do it for you.

So what comes next?

If you have a trip in mind — a real one, a someday one, or just a feeling that it is time — reach out. Tell me what you are dreaming about, even if the details are fuzzy. Especially if the details are fuzzy. That is exactly what I am here for.

Let’s close some of those browser tabs.

Ready to start planning?

Reach out and tell me about your trip — where you want to go, who is coming, and what you are hoping to feel when you get there. We will figure out the rest together.