The Year of the Fire Horse

 

 

 

 

 

 

The old travel playbook is tired. Same routes. Same highlights. Same photos.

We are rewriting it by going deeper, not broader - committing to places where exceptional travel still lives in the margins.

 

You have heard us talk about these destinations before - the ones we are endlessly enamored with and return to again and again. This time, we are seeing them differently, uncovering new layers that most travelers never experience…

 

+ Sri Lanka — nature, spirituality, wellbeing, recovery. A destination that teaches you to exhale, with new, emerging experiences we are excited to introduce.

 

+ Scotland — not the postcard version, but the thinking person’s British Isles. Stark landscapes, layered history, and partners who understand restraint.

 

+ Japan — beyond the obvious. Small towns, seasonal rituals, and experiences designed around presence, not performance.

 

Across it all, the philosophy remains the same - less is more. Travel that goes analog, avoids the obvious, and brings clarity back into focus. That is our work.

Taos, Uncovered

Some experiences exist only through word of mouth…and this is one of them.

 

Taos, New Mexico is a feeling. High desert light. Serious terrain without the spectacle. Travel Sommelier’s Michael was just on the scene - and this is how you ski it like no one else.

 

Private guides. Exclusive CAT-accessed backcountry. First tracks. Penthouse living at the mountain’s base. Yurt lunches, sleigh rides to mid-mountain Bavarian feasts, chef-prepared dinners in your suite. Rare access to local Pueblo communities and generations of ancestral wisdom. Every detail, curated just for you.

 

It is not about flash. It is old-world ski culture at 12,000 feet, fused with modern luxury and intuitive service - always two steps ahead, so you can simply be present.

 

Domestic travel rarely makes our highlights, but this is moonshot skiing. Wild, exclusive, immersive. An experience reserved for our clients, discovered quietly, intentionally, and through those who have been before you.

This vs. That

You don't know what you don't know. Our job is to pair the vibe clients describe with the destination they don't even know they are looking for.

 

Central Asia is rarely named outright. What clients describe instead is a feeling...wide open spaces, culturally rich, the sense of arriving before a place is fully discovered. Often, they are coming off destinations like Morocco or Iceland. Extraordinary, yes. But no longer quiet. The desire is not for something better. It is for something earlier. The Stans - Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan - still offer that. 

 

The same instinct shows up with Africa. For many travelers, the pull is not a place so much as a feeling - deeply personal, layered, and human. They have loved Italy or France, but now want something that goes beyond beauty and into belonging. Africa delivers this, especially when guided by relationships that run deep and wide. 

 

Then there is Central America - electric, evolving, and full of possibility. It tends to call to travelers ready to trust, ready to do something their friends are not already doing, often after ticking off the Caribbean's greatest hits. It is not about being different for the sake of it. It is about choosing discovery over

repetition. 

 

These are journeys for those willing to step slightly off-script. And if you feel

that Fire Horse restlessness, it may be time to look beyond the usual.

From our Clients

Until the next trip to toast,