These are the destinations and travel types I plan most, built around guided touring with real time to explore on your own. My focus is train travel, river cruising, and ocean cruising, usually to Canada and the Canadian Rockies, Alaska, the United Kingdom, Europe, and the Caribbean. Pick a destination below to see how I approach it, or read on for how I put these trips together.
Most of my trips fall into three travel types. Train travel is what I plan best, from Rocky Mountaineer through the Canadian Rockies to the scenic lines of Britain and multi-country journeys across Europe. River cruising takes you down the Rhine, the Danube, and other rivers across Europe with the ship as your hotel, unpacked once. And ocean cruising ranges from the Caribbean out of Galveston to Alaska's Inside Passage. Many of my clients combine them, a train journey paired with a cruise, and I build the whole thing so the days link up cleanly.
Whichever destination you choose, the approach is the same. I match the route, the ship or the seat class, and the hotels to how you actually like to travel, then handle every connection in between. I lean toward guided touring with independent time built in, so you get the structure and the local knowledge without feeling packed onto a bus all day. My aim is a genuinely good trip at a genuinely good value, not the cheapest option and not the flashiest, but the one that fits you.
If you are near San Antonio, I am glad to meet in person and hand you a printed, bound itinerary that my clients tell me they love. If you are farther away, we plan over the phone or video and I ship your itinerary to your door. Either way you get the same attention, and I stay reachable while you travel.