Why We Travel: A Legacy of Memory-Making and Family Adventures

Family travel has always been at the heart of our lives, inspired by our beloved father. In this post, we answer the question we get the most: why do we love to travel so much? Our story is one of legacy, love, and the power of travel to bring families together.

Growing Up Disney Fanatics

Two of our founding-4, Lindsey & Brittany, grew up in a true Disney-fanatic family:  Vanity license plates on the cars, annual 2 week vacations at Disney World, wallpapered rooms, Disney-named pets... all of it.  Our Dad, a management-level career employee at Verizon, worked a weekend "play" job at the Disney Store for fun & discounts. We wore our fanatic-level obsession and mounting-count of trips like badges of pride and counted down until we were old enough to do a Disney College Program internship and work in the parks.

Walt Disney World 1987 - Fantasyland Prince Charming Regal Carousel

The Magic of Family Vacations

As adults, we now lovingly recognize how next-level crazy it was.   But we also clearly see how priceless the magic-filled experiences and vacations together were.

Our parents didn’t just give us a bunch of great vacations, they were formative experiences that shaped us to be creative, curious, positive and inspired to find wonder everywhere.  

It’s not surprising to see where we both of us up ended up professionally: one as a teacher, inspiring young minds, the other in the entertainment industry, working with the best storytellers in the world.

Expanding Our Horizons Beyond Disney

Our family trips eventually extended out beyond Disney Parks.  We were teenagers when our family took our first trip abroad and we looked around in pure amazement, seeing the real-life versions of things we’d admired in Epcot.  And we never looked back!  That first trip abroad opened the flood gates for so many more adventures and sparked an unquenchable thirst for travel in all of us. 

Paris, France - Siene River Embankment (2000)

A Tribute to Our Dad

We lost our dad to cancer nearly 10 years ago.  Throughout his battle and up to the very last moment of our time with him, we talked about the amazing trips we shared together and all of our favorite memories made.  He fought the battle looking forward to a cruise with his first grandchild.

​In the very dark moments throughout his battle and the years that have followed, it’s become so clear just how powerful our travels had on our family bond. Many of our best memories, inside jokes and most nostalgic moments were experiences we shared on a family vacation. We realized the “magic” of those trips wasn’t just what we experienced when we were on them. The memories made on our family trips have helped us feel the warmth and love of our Dad, long since he left us.  We can so clearly remember the beers and laughs we shared in an English pub, his beaming smile as he swam through the crystal clear waters of Bermuda, and the pure joy he had packing up our family and driving us to Florida every summer. 

Norwegian Cruise Line - Bermuda Cruise (2009)

Building Lifelong Memories with Our Families

We're so lucky to have met and married men who knew our dad, traveled with our family before his passing and share our life long love of travel.  We’re committed to building the same foundation of life-long memories for our own families and have been toting our kids on adventures since they were infants. 

So why do we love to travel? We travel for fun. We travel to explore. We travel to relax. We travel to discover. But mostly, we travel as an investment in our families’ futures: creating experiences and memories each of us can carry with us and share for generations to come.

Magic Journeys is both a tribute to the legacy of our Dad and what he taught us as well as a way for us to build our own forever-lasting memories for our kids.  

Neuschwanstein Castle, Germany (2013)

Seville, Spain (2017)

““Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”

— Mark Twain

For you, Pops. Always, Toujour.