Ask about some destinations and we'll talk for an hour. Ask about somewhere we haven't built yet, and we'll go find out. Nothing here is off the table — some of it we just already know cold.
You usually know how you want to feel, and probably who you want next to you, before you may decide on where you're going. Every one of these turns into its own kind of story. Some destinations and experiences come up more frequently than others. Yours will still be yours.
Trekking, cycling, paddling, climbing. Trips where the day has a distance in it. Patagonia, the Andes, East Africa, Alaska, at whatever pace suits you, with the comfort set to what you actually want at the end of a long day rather than what someone assumed you'd tolerate.
The blank page. You tell us the shape of it, who's coming, roughly when, and what you want out of it. We build the rest from nothing. Most of what we do starts here, and it's where the phone numbers earn their keep.
Under 700 guests, often under 100. Antarctica, the Galápagos, the Mediterranean, the great rivers. Ships small enough to reach the places the big ones sail past, and small enough that going ashore doesn't involve a queue.
We run this as its own practice for travelers who wrote off cruising after seeing the wrong ships. Ocean, river, expedition, and private yacht, with access to sailings and shipboard programs that aren't offered to the general public.
A milestone birthday. A reunion. The trip where three generations all have to be happy at once. Private guides, enough room that nobody feels trapped, and an itinerary built around the fact that a nine-year-old and a seventy-year-old want different mornings.
In some places we've already built the journeys, so you can see the route and the price today. In others we start from nothing every time. Both are things we do well. They just begin differently.
Deb has lived in San Francisco and in Alaska, and lives now in Northern California's southern Cascades. Those two are not research destinations for us. They're places we've spent ordinary time in, which is a different kind of knowing.
Napa and Sonoma without the tasting-room conveyor belt. The Mendocino and Big Sur coasts at the pace they deserve. Shasta, Lassen, and the parts of Northern California that people drive past on their way somewhere else. In Alaska, the version you only get to by air.
These are the places we've worked in longest and know deepest. There's nothing to browse because every one of these trips is made for the people taking it.
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