ABOUT
I didn’t fall in love with travel. I was changed by it.
I’ve watched a soccer camp in Italy turn into a career, a semester in New Zealand rearrange my sense of what’s possible, and a move to Colorado become the second chapter of a life I didn’t know I was building. Every trip I design starts from that same belief: the right journey doesn’t just take you somewhere. It leaves you different than it found you.
The moment it started
It began with a soccer camp, of all things. I was in high school, in Italy, technically there to train. But somewhere between the fields and the piazzas, I stopped just visiting a place and started paying attention to it, the way the language sounded, the way afternoons moved slower, the way a stranger’s kindness could reroute your whole day.
I didn’t know it then, but that trip set the terms for everything after. I wasn’t looking for a career. I was looking for the next place that would ask something of me.
What travel does
It humbles you
You stop being the expert in the room, and something in you softens.
It clarifies you.
Far enough from home, you start hearing what you actually want.
It stays with you.
The best trips don’t end at the airport. They keep working on you for years.
I don’t design trips so people can say they went somewhere. I design them so people come home a little different.
ABBY GLAYSHER, CTC · TRAVEL DESIGNER
THE PATH HERE
From soccer fields to San Juans
A degree in Recreation and Tourism, a semester abroad in New Zealand and Australia, and a first job at a travel agency in Illinois taught me the business side, and the humans on the other side of every itinerary.
Then Colorado called. I traded a desk for the outdoors, working in recreation and youth programs, and learned a different kind of travel: the kind that happens thirty minutes from home, in the San Juan Mountains. That’s when I understood that “travel that changes you” was never about the distance. It was about the intention.
Today I design both. The far-flung and the close to home. The two-week trip to Japan and the weekend in Ouray. All of it, in service of the same idea.
Credentials
EDUCATION
CERTIFICATIONS
SPECIALITIES
B.A. Recreation and Tourism, Winona State University · A.A. Recreation Management, Indiana Tech
Certified Travel Counselor (CTC) · Colorado Parks and Recreation Professional (CPRP)
Cruises · Honeymoons · All-Inclusive · US National Parks · Europe · South America · Mexico & Caribbean · Asia
Let’s find out what this trip does for you.
Tell me where you’re headed and what you’re hoping to feel. I’ll take it from there.