Life can be wonderful and amazing and joyous. It can be bright and beautiful.
Births. Marriages. Fresh starts. New opportunities.
Life can feel heavy sometimes. It can grow dark.
Death. Divorce. Unexpected changes. Endings we didn't want. Beginnings we didn't ask for.
Light is the opposite of both darkness and heaviness. Light means releasing what weighs us down. When we set those heavy things aside, we create space—space for peace, for beauty, for something better. Light also means emerging from the darkness. When we move toward it, the darkness slowly loosens its grip.
Travel is my light.
When I board a plane, train, boat, car—or even a camel—I refuse to carry the heavy things with me. Just like that 5th pair of blue shoes I think I need to pack but won't fit in my bag... I leave the heavy things behind. Leaving them behind gives me space to learn and laugh and discover. The joy I feel when discovering a new place—or returning to a beloved destination—is the light that softens the darkness.
Sometimes, a little joy is exactly what we need.
How and where you find that joy is deeply personal. It might be water or mountains. A beautiful hotel room or a rustic cabin. Traveling with family or friends, or booking everything just for yourself.
Maybe it's finally taking that river cruise you've been dreaming about for years. Or a slow, solo week in a farmhouse with nothing on the agenda but morning coffee and afternoon wandering. Perhaps it's gathering your college girlfriends for a long weekend somewhere none of you have been—creating new memories now that the calendar is finally yours again.
All of it is perfect if it brings you joy.
As a travel curator, my work is about more than destinations and itineraries—it's about helping you move toward the light. My expertise lies not only in travel planning, but in listening. I listen to your words, and to what your body tells me.
Do your eyes brighten when you describe a cabin in the mountains, leaves turning color, a babbling brook nearby? Do your shoulders relax as you talk about sinking into the bed of your dreams at a five-star hotel, finally getting the rest you deserve? Do you lean forward when you mention that cooking class you've always wanted to take, or pause meaningfully when you say you've "always wanted to see the Northern Lights"?
These are the details that matter. These are the breadcrumbs that lead to your perfect trip.
At this stage of life, we know that the heavy and the dark can consume us if we let them. But we also know something else: we are allowed to choose joy. We can schedule it. We can travel to it. We can walk around in it. We can share it with others or keep it to ourselves.
Travel, in all its forms, has a remarkable way of lightening our lives—literally lightening our load and lighting up the dark.
Find what brings you light.
A place. A meal. A moment.
A nap.
A walk.
A breath.
I'd love to know: What's the trip that brought you back to yourself? Maybe it was somewhere far away, or maybe it was just far enough. Maybe you haven't taken it yet—but you know exactly where it would be.
Share it with me. I'm listening.