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I love France

Every place I visit has its own light, its own rhythm — but what stays with me longest is never the scenery. It's the people. A stranger's family story over dinner, a local pointing me toward the one place worth seeing, the person in my travel group who becomes a friend by the third day. That's the part I never get tired of.

That pull toward people's stories is exactly what led me into genealogy research — twenty years of tracing family histories, finding the actual place someone's line began. And it's the same pull that led me into group travel. There's something different about experiencing Alaska, or a river winding through Europe, or a heritage trip built from someone's own research, alongside other people who feel it the same way you do. I built my hosted trips around that, at a pace that leaves room for the moments that actually matter.