01 — What makes this different
I start with your questions.
Most agents start with your dates.
Traditional agents work from packages and supplier deals. If you already know exactly what you want, they'll sort your hotels and transfers and send you on your way.
I start somewhere else. Why this trip, and why now? What are you curious about? What do you want to remember six months after you're home? The itinerary comes out of those answers, built around your pace and your interests rather than around what's easy to sell.
You aren't hiring me to make bookings. You're hiring me to think about the story your trip will tell.
How I design your trip
I build it from there, at a pace that still holds everything you came for, with the right amount of time given to the things that turn out to matter most. Sometimes that means an afternoon among ruins. Sometimes it's three nights in a mountain village with nothing scheduled.
Nothing gets booked until you've seen it. We choose your hotels for location and character, and I connect you with guides who know where to take you because they grew up on the streets they walk you down. We work on it together until it reads like yours.
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I Design
Once you arrive, I'm still here. Your job is to be there. Mine is to make sure nothing gets in the way.
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You Travel
I don't start with "Where do you want to go?" I start with what you're reading right now, what your teenage daughter would still be talking about a year later, and whether you want to be challenged or restored.
That conversation tells me what sort of traveler you are: not only where you want to go, but how you want to be there.
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We Talk
Three months to six is ideal for most trips; six to nine for summer, holidays, or a large family journey.
02 — the process
For travelers who want the ease of a cruise without losing discovery
the foundation of most of the work i do
The trip built from nothing but your answers — route, pace, hotels, and the days in between, assembled by hand rather than pulled from a catalog. One country or six, seven nights or three weeks.
Everything is coordinated under one itinerary: hotels, transfers, guides, tables, tickets.
Custom Travel Itineraries
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Three generations traveling together works when nobody has to pretend they all want the same thing. The sixteen-year-old gets an afternoon on her own terms. Your parents get a morning that doesn't start at eleven o'clock. And everyone still ends up at the same table for dinner, which is the point.
It all sits under one itinerary: properties, transfers, guides, reservations, tickets. Everyone traveling with you can see it, so no one is texting from a hotel lobby asking what time the car comes.
Family & Multi-Generational Travel
For families building shared history
A river or luxury cruise can be one of the best ways to see Europe, but only if the route, the ship, and the season match how you want to travel. Get that combination right and the ship becomes part of the experience. Get it wrong and you're stuck for a week or more on a very expensive hotel that moves.
Cruise Design
For the curious who like the company
For travelers who like the challenge
For travelers covering ground without rushing it
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Three cities in two countries sounds simple until you're standing at a station with the wrong ticket. The difficulty of a multi-country trip is rarely the destinations — it's the seams between them: border crossings, rail versus a short flight, the day that gets eaten by transit.
I design the connections as carefully as the stops, so each country gets the time it deserves and you arrive at the next one with energy left. Sometimes that means cutting a city. I'll tell you when.
Multi-Country Itineraries
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A small-group trip means six people at a dinner table instead of sixty, a local guide who knows your name on day one, and moving at a pace where you can ask all the questions you want before moving on to the next stop. You make new friends with fellow travelers and always have someone nearby capturing your photos for you.
You end up in places a bus can't reach and conversations a headset can't carry. That's the difference.
Small Group Travel
Adventure doesn't have to mean extreme. It means being open to trying something new.
A multi-day trek through the mountains, staying in rifugi along the ridge line instead of hotels. A small boat down a tributary of the Amazon at daybreak, motor off, drifting the last stretch to hear the jungle wake up. Sea kayaking between the Croatian islands, stopping wherever a cove catches your eye. It's the moments that stay with you.
Adventure Travel
This is the foundation of every trip I design. From here I add the details that let the experience unfold naturally.
03 — Specialties
Above: Dining at the top of The Shard, London, a stunning experience
04 - your complete itinerary
More than a list of reservations
An itinerary from me is never just your schedule. It's a table of contents for the story your trip will tell.
It's a cup of coffee in the morning before you set out on foot, tracing cobblestone streets to the city market, where the stalls are already stacked with flowers and produce still damp from the morning delivery. Your afternoon means meeting your private guide, who does so much more than lead you through the museum. He knows more about Egyptian history than you imagined anyone could, and tells it in a way that turns the civilization into something you'll find yourself repeating to others long after you're home.
You know where to shop for the best handmade local goods because I told you where they are. It's finding a handwritten note waiting in your hotel room, next to a plate of cookies you'll enjoy before your nap.
And dinner at the top of the tallest building in the city, the lights spreading out below you as the sky goes dark.
Every detail on the page exists because it matters to who you are, not because it fills a day. That's the difference between a trip you took and the trip you remember.
Visit a museum after it has closed to the public and walk with an art historian who shows you how each work belongs to a story still being written. Or learn to prepare a dish in a local's kitchen that feels like a friend's. Smell the sauce simmering on the stove and anticipate something delicious coming out of the oven.
Cultural Experiences
Someone meets you at the gate and walks you through the airport, past the lines and the guesswork about which terminal you need. Partners who ship your bags ahead so you never see a carousel. And if you have points sitting unused. I'll help turn them into flights, upgrades, or experiences that fit the trip you're taking.
VIP & Travel Logistics
Some of what I arrange has a booking page. Most of the best parts don't. A private flight or a yacht charter when the schedule calls for it. A museum gallery to yourselves before the doors open. Lunch at a private estate you would have driven past without knowing it was there.
There's no search result for any of that. It comes from years of traveling there myself and forming the relationships so I know who to call to get it.
Private & Signature Access
05 — ENHANCEMENTS
60 / 30 days out
+$350/$650
Requests after June 1
+$650
Along with hours of research, you're paying for the judgment that comes with them: understanding what matters to you, then building a journey where every choice on the page reflects it.
December 15 through January 2 is the most competitive window of the year for properties, experiences, and guides. Applies to festive-season requests received after June 1, added to the standard design fee.
Travel requested inside standard planning windows requires faster turnaround and rearranging existing work. Added to the standard design fee: $350 within 60 days of departure, $650 within 30 days.
Longer trips, multi-country itineraries, or groups larger than four are quoted after our phone consultation and scale with length, destinations, and the number of travelers. These are the trips I design most often.
Festive Season
Last Minute Planning
quoted after consult
From $2,000
Covers journeys up to seven nights, for one to four travelers, in a single country. You get your custom itinerary, property and experience recommendations, every reservation and all coordination handled, and my support before you leave and while you're traveling.
Complex European Journeys
Trip Design Fee
base design fee
From $1,200
06 — Investment
Designing a trip that fits you takes time. Weeks of research, curation, and coordination go in before you ever board a plane. My fee reflects that work and the two decades of experience behind it.
The design fee is separate from what you spend on properties, flights, and experiences. I book those on your behalf.
After our consultation call, you'll receive a written proposal with the scope of your trip and your total design fee. Nothing begins until you approve it.
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How pricing
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The itinerary and the arrangements. No bookings placed for you, and no support once you're traveling.
The research, the maps, and the recommendations, in writing.
Multi-country journeys quoted by the regions involved.
$450
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Some travelers enjoy the booking. What they don't want is to spend three months sorting real recommendations from sponsored ones.
After we talk through your interests and how you like to travel, I build you a document made for your route. Custom maps for the places you don't want to miss. The guides and companies I use by name. Restaurants mapped so you can pull them up standing on the street and decide. Hotels narrowed to where you want to be. The festivals and closures to plan around, and the practical details that only come from having been there.
It's everything I know about where you're going, organized so you can use it.
Kickstart
not ready for full design?
07 — Questions
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Before you
Most travel agents are experts at booking flights, properties, and packages. I start somewhere else entirely: with what you're curious about, how you want to spend your days, and what you want to remember afterward. I handle the bookings, but the real work is designing a journey with purpose rather than one that's merely organized.
My design fee depends on the length and complexity of your journey, and the ranges are listed above. If you would rather book for yourself, Kickstart starts at $450. Either way, I confirm your fee in writing after our conversation, and the consultation is always complimentary.
No. Most of our planning happens over phone, video, or email. Many of my clients are in Phoenix and Scottsdale, and I enjoy working with people here, but the process is the same wherever you are.
For most journeys, three to six months is ideal. For summer travel, holidays, or a large family trip, six to nine months opens up more options. I've designed excellent trips on shorter notice, so it comes down to what you want from the experience.
That's one of the best reasons to start a conversation. Plenty of my clients come to me with a feeling rather than a destination, wanting something cultural, or restful, or more active. Figuring out what fits is part of the work we do together.
Takes about three minutes. No obligation.
After we talk, you receive a written proposal with the scope of your journey and your total design fee. Nothing begins until you approve it.
Once you submit it, you'll receive a link to schedule our complimentary call at a time that suits you, Monday through Friday, 10am to 4pm MST.
You fill out a short inquiry form: where you're thinking, roughly when, and who's coming. "Not sure yet" is a valid answer to all three.
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Inquiries by appointment only.
Our first conversation is complimentary, and it's how we find out whether my approach fits what you're after. If you don't know where you want to go yet, that's one of the best reasons to reach out.