Your unique travel personality becomes the blueprint for every trip we design. Take control, move beyond destination marketing, and discover experiences you never thought possible.
Travel can bring clarity to life's biggest questions — and illuminate where growth is needed. But without a way to carry those insights forward, even extraordinary trips fade into photos and distant memories. Transformed by Travels ensures every journey leads to lasting, life-changing results.
We all have distinct styles, goals, and preferences that shape how we travel. Some chase adventure, others seek culture or solitude. Some want to recharge; others want to reflect and rethink what comes next. Understanding your travel personality can reveal the insights you need to tackle life's most important challenges.
Whether you plan your own trips or pay someone to do it for you, the process is driven by travel industry marketing. Google, Instagram, TripAdvisor — all paid by advertisers. What you see is always driven by someone who paid to attract your attention.
We start with your travel personality — or the combined profiles of you and your travel partner. Everything we do is then filtered through that lens. We find places to stay, hikes to make, dives to take, and museums to visit according to your preferences. How unique is that.
Planning travel with any partner is both rewarding and challenging. You quickly understand how your travel personalities are not identical.
We help you come together and then guide you to choose destinations and activities that work for both of you. Whether you're traveling with a daughter, spouse, or friend, we can turn planning into a fun experience.
When you start down our path, you'll benefit as soon as you begin to think about your next trip.
Growing up on a dairy farm in a small town in Wisconsin, my opportunities for travel were pretty limited — to the books on our family shelf. But eventually we made a family trip to the north woods of neighboring Minnesota. My Dad desperately wanted to see a moose. Every gravel side road just might be "the one" to reveal the biggest species of the deer family.
We never saw one. It would be over 50 years before I finally saw a moose myself — in Jasper National Park, walking right alongside our car. But my Dad planted a seed of curiosity and wonder about wild animals. And although he never got his moose, I would go on to see wildlife from Africa to South America to Asia.
Like many adventure travelers, my wife and I love to see wild animals — especially those that eat other animals. Last year we spent two days tracking pumas in Torres del Paine National Park. It was one of the highlights of our travel lives.
I didn't learn to swim or scuba until I was well into my 40s, but exploring the underwater ocean became a part of my life — and my children's — for the 20 years that followed. With my daughters I saw everything from exotic shrimp in Indonesia to orcas and whale sharks in the Galápagos Islands.
I wouldn't call myself a birder, but I've been lucky enough to see scarlet macaws in Costa Rica, penguins in Patagonia, and tropical birds in Papua New Guinea. And I braved -20°F weather to see the much sought-after Great Gray Owl.
I say these things not to brag but to inspire people who are looking to be transformed by their travels. You cannot have moments like this and not be changed by them.
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