We Are the
Schwans.

Before any of this, I ran international travel and exchange programs, connecting students and families with the world and watching people come home changed by what they’d experienced. That’s still what drives me. I’ve spent the better part of a decade turning that instinct into real trips: safaris, polar expeditions, and multi-country itineraries for families who want more than a resort pool.

I’ve lived and worked in Geneva, studied in France, cruised Norway’s Arctic coast in winter, and gone on safari in South Africa’s Sabi Sand. In January 2026 I joined an HX expedition to Antarctica and camped on the ice overnight, a trip that changed how I think about travel entirely. The trip I’m proudest of isn’t always the most dramatic one. It’s a 21-night custom Australia itinerary I built from scratch for a mother and daughter’s bucket-list trip, with stopovers in Hawaii and Fiji, because nothing off the shelf fit what they needed.