By day, I'm an Infectious Diseases physician. By choice, I'm a travel advisor. My husband jokes that the two aren't unrelated — I do have a habit of picking destinations where malaria prophylaxis is required. East Africa, Costa Rica, the Amazon. He's not entirely wrong. But the real reason is simpler: I have always been captivated by the kind of travel that changes you.
I'm a mom to twin boys, and our family runs on two speeds: the school calendar and the next adventure. I squeeze in as many trips as humanly possible between the two, and somewhere along the way I realized I was spending as much time planning other people's vacations as I was planning my own. Friends would send me their rough ideas and get back a 12-page itinerary with restaurant reservations, safari camp comparisons, and a packing list. It felt less like a favor and more like a calling.
That's how Travel Out of Office was born.
Most of the families I work with come to me through other families I've worked with — the doctor in your group chat, the colleague at school drop-off, the friend who came back from a trip and wouldn't stop talking about it. A lot of them are physician moms. Some are not. What they share is a busy professional life, a busy family life, and a deep belief that the trips you take together become part of who your family is.
They don't want to spend their evenings comparing safari lodges or decoding Disney Genie+. They want to hand the planning off to someone who has actually been there, who pays attention to the details that make or break a trip, and who treats their vacation with the same care they'd put into their own.
The trips I love planning most are the ones I love taking myself: East African safari, Japan in cherry blossom season, Finnish Lapland for the Northern Lights, Patagonia, and Disney vacations — cruises and parks both. I'll plan an overwater bungalow in Bora Bora or a glacier hike in Iceland with the same care, but the bucket-list, experience-first trips are where I'm most useful.
If your trip falls outside that list, ask anyway. I have a network of advisors I trust for the corners I haven't been to, and I'd rather refer you well than plan you something I don't know cold.
As a mom, safety and kid-friendly adventures are always top of mind. I look for the balance between high-energy mornings — think glacier hikes, game drives at dawn, kayaking through fjords — and the kind of afternoon that lets everyone decompress by a pool or on a beach.
My personal travel style is relentless — sunrises, full days, stargazing after dinner. But I plan for all kinds of travelers, the ones who share my pace and the ones who consider a beach chair and a good book a perfect itinerary. My goal is never to impose my preferences on your vacation. It's to understand yours — your travel style, your bucket list, the experiences you've always wanted to have — and turn those into something real.
Travel Out of Office is my independent travel advisory practice, an affiliate of Global on Demand Travel. The affiliation gives me access to consortium relationships, supplier preferred-partner programs, and the booking infrastructure I need to deliver on what I plan. The voice and the planning are mine.