My brother and I were raised to never stop exploring and to never stop learning about new cultures. The world was our classroom, and we were its students. We’ve each raised our children the same way.

My experience running a successful design business, combined with my Communications degree from Northwestern (with a concentration in the Medill School of Journalism), makes me a natural in my ability to assess my client's specific wishes and needs and to design a desirable itinerary.

I've gone to cooking school in Rome and Provence, swum with the sharks and rays in Tahiti, explored the ruins of Machu Picchu, and confronted the Oracle at Delphi.

As a toddler, I camped with my family in the Boundary Waters Wilderness. When I was six years old, my family left Minnesota in a Volkswagen pop-top camper and drove through Central America all the way to Argentina and Brazil. And then all over Europe and Africa. We were gone a year and a half!

In 2006 through 2007, my husband and I, with our two young children, traveled for a year all over Europe. We took the kids out of school and toured 22 countries. Recently I've turned the corner on seeing 70 countries. And I’ve met the most remarkable people along the way.

Read a magazine interview about how I turned my childhood love of travel into a career here, and see my features in Virtuoso Life here and Reader’s Digest here.