What if the new year isn’t a reset, but a continuation of our journey? You may have noticed that I didn’t send the usual Holiday email or the predictable New Year’s message, nestled between sales reminders and year-end recaps. I felt the pressure to send it, of course. In business, visibility and consistency matter. We are taught that if we go quiet, we risk being forgotten. But inspiration eluded me. More importantly, I didn’t want to be just another email in your crowded in

My solo travel story began with a Contiki trip to Italy at twenty-five and unfolded into crewing a tall ship in Brazil, and many other solo travel adventures. Those journeys taught me who I was when no one else was telling me who to be, and ultimately became the heartbeat behind Grit & Grace Adventures.

The Complexity of Home “Where are you from?” has always felt like an impossibly small question for the life I have lived. Not because I don’t know the places I’ve called home, but because none of them, on their own, can contain the truth of who I am. A Fragmented Upbringing My upbringing was never singular or straightforward. By sixteen, I was paying rent, working, going to school, and figuring out the world as I went. I rented a room in a house full of strangers. I was indep

Discovering the Essence of Travel I’ve never counted how many countries I’ve been to. Not once. Not even out of curiosity. For me, travel has never been about tallying stamps in a passport or collecting destinations. It was never about the list. It has always been something quieter, something deeper. A calling. A remembering. A return to wonder. The truth is, I didn’t even get on a plane until I was twenty. I grew up in a small town. We didn’t have much, and we weren’t a trav