Why I travel

I am passionate about creating meaningful connections with people and places worldwide through culture. I do this by maximizing travel experiences - both highbrow and lowbrow - that focus on art, food & wine and music. I am not a professional traveler with a nomadic lifestyle, but someone who plans memorable journeys months, even years, in advance. Detailed trip planning plus leveraging loyalty - airlines, hotels, credit cards, etc - equals the best travel outcomes in my book. This is my journey, and I'd love to share it with you. 

So, I invite you to Travel with Brad...

How I Got Started

As a child, my grandmother encouraged me to carry a list around in my wallet of the top 20 places in the world I wanted to visit. I wrote down some cities, types of trains and planes, and names of far-off lands that I had only read about in books. This list inspired me to make travel a priority and empowered me to go out and see the world for myself. Once I experienced a place, I replaced it on the list with somewhere new. Years later, my card is now digital, but my lifelong love of travel remains. 

Top Destinations

During the 2020 pandemic, I was able to travel - safely and with multiple COVID tests - to the great state of Hawaii to reconnect with some old friends and get out in nature after being homebound for most of the year. Highlights included visiting my favorite poke stand on Oahu and taking an epic helicopter tour of the Big Island - with a flyover of the active Kilauea volcano. Wiht a lof of interantional desitnaitons off the table in 2021, I plan to go back this year!