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You dream it. I'll handle it. I plan milestone trips, family travel, and the kind of getaways you've been putting off because life's too busy.

Whether it's a 50th anniversary in Italy, a multi-gen reunion in Mexico,a long weekend you need — I got you.

15/10/2026

Halloween, then Thanksgiving, then Hanukkah, then Christmas. The next ten weeks are almost entirely about other people. Kids, parents, in-laws, whoever is hosting, whoever is driving to you.

I love that part. I host Christmas Eve and I wouldn’t give it up.

But somewhere in there you need a day that belongs to you. Or two ;)

Here’s what people get wrong about wellness travel. It doesn’t have to be a week at a resort with a schedule and a 6am class. It can be one afternoon you protect inside a trip you were already taking.

I have four women heading to Québec City next week. Friends since college, all in their fifties now. Three days of shopping and eating and drinking, and in the middle of it, one spa day. Thermal circuit, lunch, massages for all four, booked months ago. That single afternoon is what will make it feel like a break instead of a long weekend.

Swipe for seven places where this works, from Virginia to Lombardy. Sometimes the spa is the hotel. Sometimes the hotel is just a good place to sleep near the spa, which is how we did San Pellegrino, as a day trip out of Bergamo. It was one of the best days of that whole trip and it cost us nothing but the drive.

Two I can speak to personally: Miraval, where I’ve been several times and will tell you honestly that you don’t need a week, two nights does it. And San Pellegrino, which is the last two photos.

And the honest part. If structure makes you anxious, a full wellness resort will not relax you. Book a good hotel, book one treatment, leave the rest of the day empty. That counts.

Girls trip, couples trip, or two nights on your own. Tell me and I’ll build it around the part that actually recharges you.

12/10/2026

Today is our anniversary, and in a few weeks we’re going to Cartagena for it. People keep asking me why.

Not rudely. Just with a slight pause before the word. Why there?

I’ve been getting that question for years, and underneath it is usually a different one: why not the place everyone goes to?

Here’s how I actually think about it.
Guatemala instead of Costa Rica.
Grenada instead of Aruba.
Bergamo instead of Milan.
Lake Garda instead of Lake Como.
I’ve been to most of the places on the right too. They’re wonderful, and I book them happily. This isn’t me talking up the alternative because I never made it to the famous one.

But the one on the left is often the better trip.
Fewer people in front of the thing you came to see.
Easier to move around.
Usually less expensive. And it still feels like itself. Restaurants full of people who live there.
Northern Italy got the raised eyebrow once too. It’s now the thing I’m best known for planning.

None of this is a rule. Some places are quiet for good reasons. Fewer direct flights, longer transfers, more work to get around, more language to navigate. Those are real, and I’ll tell you when they apply.

If you want a trip that not everyone does, tell me and I’ll help you build it. And I’ll tell you honestly whether it’s worth doing.
I’ll report back on Cartagena too ;)

05/10/2026

I’m planning a two-week Thailand trip over New Years right now. It came to me in September.

Here’s what I’ve noticed: most people book whatever feels most urgent first. And I get it. A trip that’s a year away doesn’t feel like something you can do anything about yet. You’re busy. It’ll still be there next month.

But the things that need the most lead time are usually the things that feel the least urgent. That’s the whole problem.

So I go the other way. I start with whatever there’s only one of.

Sometimes that’s a villa. More often it’s something a lot more ordinary. Two rooms next to each other. A ground-floor room when stairs aren’t an option. An automatic rental car in Europe. A room that actually sleeps four, because every hotel has plenty of king rooms and maybe three that fit a family. Those go way before the hotel sells out.

If your dates can’t move, like a wedding, a cruise, or spring break, book your flights first. Always.

Same if you’re using points or a flight credit. Award seats open about eleven months out and the good ones are gone fast. Vouchers usually expire and only work on certain fares. You don’t want to find that out in month nine.

Planning something? Tell me when and where. And I’ll be honest, this girl gets very happy when someone comes to me six months to a year out. 😉

26/09/2026

Happy National Singles Day: where a table for one is a reservation, not a confession.

Back in July I wrote about solo travel, and how going alone doesn’t close a single door. This month I got to prove it.

Two women, both abroad, both on their own. One is spending ten weeks moving through the w**e regions of Italy and France — that’s her glass, from a balcony above the vineyards. The other just landed in England on her first European Trip.

And solo isn’t only for singles. Single, married, or simply not waiting for someone else’s calendar to line up!

They’re traveling alone. They aren’t doing it alone (I’ll see you through all the steps)

If there’s somewhere you’ve been waiting for company to go- I challenge you just to do it!

Happy Singles Day. To the singles, and to everyone who’s ever happily asked for a table for one.

21/09/2026

There’s a stretch most people never think to book: late October into the week before Thanksgiving.

Europe has emptied out. The summer crowds are gone, school holidays haven’t started, and the places that were unbearable in July are just themselves again. Rates soften. Restaurants have tables. The light goes gold in the afternoon in a way it doesn’t in June.

Where I’d send you:
Portugal. That sunset is mine, from last fall. Lisbon and the Algarve hold their warmth into November, and it’s the best value in Europe in this window.

Southern Spain. Seville and Granada are punishing in August and lovely in the shoulder seasons either side. The Alhambra without a crowd is a different building.

Sedona. If a passport isn’t in the cards. Arizona finally starts to cool off in late October, and November is genuinely my favorite month here- clear, dry, and warm enough to be outside all day.

And one I’m not sending you to (kidding), because I want it:
Puglia and Sicily. Warm into November, harvest just finished, and the towns belong to the people who live there again. I haven’t been yet but I’m going on research and on people I trust who have. I’m hoping to spend my 25th anniversary there next October.

No, I haven’t been everywhere on this list. I’d still book all four tomorrow.

Knowing what makes a place right for a particular person is a different skill from having stood there yourself - and when I haven’t, I have a network of advisors and partners who were there during these months.
Which is also the answer to a question I get a lot: yes, I book well beyond Italy.

So if late fall has been sitting in the back of your mind, tell me where. I’ll tell you honestly whether it works.

17/09/2026

Next month I’m going to two college football games in ten days. Clemson, then Texas.

My husband gets two Saturdays in stadiums. I get six nights in Cartagena on the back end. Seventeen days, one marriage, two very different ideas of a good time.

Though I should admit both games also mean seeing our kids, so I can’t pretend I’m suffering.

Here’s what I didn’t expect: game weekends are one of the harder things I book. College towns are small, the good places go early, rental cars disappear, and kickoff times often aren’t announced until a week or two out, so you’re booking around a Saturday that could start at noon or at eight at night.

Cartagena was my half, and I knew what I wanted before I knew where. Somewhere we’d never been. A city and a beach in the same trip. Food and drinks worth planning a day around.

That’s how it usually starts,actually-not with a destination, but with a list of what you want the trip to feel like.

Tell me the game. Then tell me whether you want to stay a while. I love figuring out clever additions to “weekend” trips!

10/09/2026

Bon voyage to two of my travelers whose ship sails today.

Over the next ten days they will visit: Florence, Cinque Terre, Nice, Marseille, Barcelona, Valencia, Alicante, Mallorca, and Malta to finish. Four countries.

They’ll unpack once.

That’s the part people underestimate. Not the ship but the arithmetic behind the trip! Nine stops usually means multiple hotels, check-ins, trains or rental cars all with luggage in tow. Here it means waking up somewhere new and walking off.

And nobody has to decide where to eat every night for ten nights. If you’ve ever been the person in your family who gets handed that job on vacation, you know what that’s worth.

For some people that’s not a small convenience, instead it’s the difference between a trip that restores them and one they need a vacation from.

It isn’t right for everyone. Some travelers want to stay somewhere long enough to have a regular café they visit every am and this is not the trip for them.

But if seeing a lot without doing a lot sounds like your idea of a good trip then let’s talk. There’s a real difference between cruise lines and itineraries, and the right pairing matters more than most people realize. Let me help you find what is right for you.

08/09/2026

Most people think you call a travel advisor when you know where you’re going.

You don’t.

Tell me the trip you keep almost taking; the one that comes up every year and never quite happens. No dates, no destination, no plan required. Just the idea of it.

I’ll keep an eye out. When the right window opens, or the right price, or the right moment for that particular trip, I’ll send it your way.

No pitch, no pressure, no weekly email you’ll delete.

Link in bio whenever you’re ready.

04/09/2026

For a lot of years, Labor Day weekend meant a staycation in Arizona. A resort with a pool and a waterslide, friends, kids everywhere, all of us having a blast. Those were good weekends.

If that’s your weekend this year (house is loud, squeezing out one last one before school ramps up) I hope you’re enjoying the chaos and fun.

Mine looks different. The kids are grown and gone. I’m in California, ocean breeze, jasmine in the yard, noticing the quiet in a way I didn’t used to.

Here’s what nobody tells you about this part: the trips you kept putting off are suddenly possible.

So I’m sitting out here thinking about where next. Europe in October, especially that stretch when the crowds thin, golden hour makes whole cities glow, and everything feels a little lighter.

However you’re spending this one, loud house or quiet yard, I hope it’s exactly what you need.

And if you’re like me and already dreaming about the next thing — let’s chat.

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