“The best trips, like the best love affairs, never end.” — Pico Iyer
The quote above is one of my favorites, because it perfectly encapsulates why I’m so drawn to—really, so passionate about—planning travel. Here’s the rest:
“If travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be
transformed.”
At the end of the day, that’s what AwayBug delivers—a heightened state of awareness. Yes, you get seamless service, from the moment you reach out to us to the moment we phone you when you get home. Yes, you get all the amazing perks, upgrades, and amenities we can provide, thanks to our industry connections. But the MOST important thing you get—the thing I’m most proud of as a travel advisor—are the immersive, heightened experiences, the kind that plunge you right into the heart of what defines your destination as a place that can transform travelers, if they know where to look. And, after spending several years living abroad—including stints in South Africa, London, and Ireland—I know exactly what a difference having an “in” makes to how you experience a destination. That’s why I have my very favorite on-the-ground guides on speed dial, ready to craft custom tours, hands-on activities, and exhilarating excursions that show my clients what’s truly possible. Whether that’s mucking around in the Alaskan mud at the foot of a massive glacier, or mixing up a craft cocktail behind the bar of a legendary literary haunt, you get a vacation that never just skims the surface. And you’ll return home transformed, changed forever by what you saw.
