about
i understand pto fear
strategize your pto days
You get ten days a year, maybe fifteen. You guard them like savings, feel guilty spending them, and watch some of them expire in December.
Most people don't need a bigger budget — they need the days they already have to count for something.
That's the part I'm good at.
I am dedicated to
creating personalized, unforgettable travel experiences that inspire and enrich lives.
my story
My mother took me to London when I was ten. Twenty years later she took my daughter at ten.
By the time my son turned ten she had died, so I took him myself — and his twenty-year-old sister at the same time, on my own.
Two completely different trips sharing one itinerary. I've been working out how to make travel happen ever since, usually with less money than the trip appeared to require.
I grew up outside Washington, DC and live in Fort Worth now. I've been to Cuba three times.
I've stayed in places that cost more for one night than a whole week somewhere else, and in places with no bar and a breakfast buffet, and what I took from that is that expensive and valuable are not the same word.
The only question worth asking is what the money actually changes — and the answer is different for every person who asks me.
yOur planner
Marcia Stuhler-Gilmore
Marcia Stuhler-Gilmore
I'm a documentary photographer and a Fora travel advisor, which mostly means I pay attention to what's actually happening instead of what's supposed to.
I plan trips for solo travelers, for families, and for people taking a first trip abroad with a kid — and I'm most useful when the question isn't where to go, but whether you can pull it off at all.
I'll tell you which airport, what it really costs, and which of the things on every list you can skip without missing anything.
