Travel insights, personalized trip planning, and trusted dog sitting services.
Practical advice and real experience from visiting 75+ countries and working with clients and pets across different needs.
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I share travel insights, offer personalized trip planning, and provide reliable dog sitting services. Everything here is based on real experience and designed to be practical and easy to use.
Travel tips, destination insights, and lessons from visiting 75+ countries. Real experiences without the fluff.
Custom itineraries built around your budget, style, and goals. Simple, thoughtful, and tailored to how you actually travel.
Reliable, attentive care including sitting, daycare, walking, and yard cleanup in DC.
about me
Traveler
75+ countries and counting. I focus on meaningful, experience-driven travel.
Dog Sitter
Reliable, attentive care with real experience handling different dogs and needs.
blogger
Sharing practical tips, personal insights, and lessons from travel and daily life.
I’ve spent most of my adult life moving. 75+ countries, stints living in five of them (the US, Switzerland, France, Ireland, and South Korea!), and a career that’s taken me from conservation fieldwork to the world of international organizations. That combination has given me a pretty particular way of looking at the world, and this site is where I try to put it to use.
Travel, for me, has always been about actually understanding a place. Its rhythms, its contradictions, the stuff that doesn’t make it into the guidebook (although there’s plenty of room for that too!). One of the biggest joys in all of it has been the people: meeting other travelers, building unexpected friendships, and learning what draws someone halfway across the world. That same curiosity is what drives the travel planning side of what I do: helping people build trips that fit their real life, not some idealized version of it.
The sustainability thread runs through everything I do, professionally and personally. I’ve worked on it with organizations focused on corporate sustainability and conservation, and I think about it in how I travel and make everyday decisions. It’s not something I do perfectly, but it’s not a side interest either.
The roots of it go back further than any job. I grew up on 100 acres surrounded by animals and spent most of my childhood absorbed in the natural world. Steve Irwin was a hero of mine, the zoo was a genuine pilgrimage, and somewhere in all of that I internalized the idea that animals and ecosystems are worth protecting. That feeling never went away. It just eventually turned into a career.
Which is also why the dog sitting business isn’t the left turn it might look like. It comes from the same place: a genuine love of animals, attention to their routines and needs, and the kind of trust that gets built when someone hands you the keys to their house and their dog.
If you’re here for travel planning, I hope what I share gives you something useful. If you found your way to the dog sitting side, your dog is in good hands.