This started because I got tired of watching good trips die in a group chat.

I've spent most of my adult life either traveling, planning other people's travel, or trying to talk friends into a trip nobody ever actually books.

Everyone wants to go. Nobody wants to compare flights, split a group bill, or be the one who picked the wrong rental. So I started doing it for people. It turned out to be the best part of my job.

My background is in travel and adventure: years of guiding, planning, and talking my way into experiences most people don't know how to book. I've taken groups through mountains, oceans, and a couple of questionable border crossings, and I've learned what actually makes a trip work. Small groups. Real food. Just enough structure to remove the stress without removing the surprise.

What makes these different is that they aren't built for a brochure. They're built for the version of the trip I'd want to be on — a little unexpected, genuinely social, and never so scheduled that there's no room for a detour.