I've lived most of my life with my feet on the ground—literally—never traveling by anything but car until my very first flight in 2021. And somehow, that late takeoff lit a fuse: now I'm chasing the kinds of places that don’t just look beautiful, but feel earned—the ones that ask to be seen, tasted, breathed in. After nearly 30 years of shaping young minds in the classroom and raising three remarkable kids of my own, I'm determined to give them that same widened horizon. My story isn’t the typical “born traveler” narrative; it’s the far more compelling one of someone who discovered it later, fell hard for it, and is now catching up with exhilarating intention.