Hi, we are Rob and Emily — and if you want to know what gets us through the workweek, it is pretty simple. There is always a trip on the calendar. Always.

We have spent years figuring out how to plan trips and travel as much as possible while working long hours, and somewhere along the way we stopped treating travel like a reward and started treating it like a priority. Turns out that mindset changes everything.

Our philosophy is Live Retired While Working — because while we daydream about how we’ll spend our retired days, we genuinely believe that joy does not have a waiting room. Life is unpredictable and we want to make the most of life now so we have no regrets.

We are also newly empty nesters and we are leaning into it - like pre-kid life when we were just a couple, not mom and dad. (Although traveling with our grown up kid is super fun too!) Just the two of us, a sense of "why not," and a running list of destinations.

Our travels are all over the map — and we mean that literally. Cruises. International adventures. City weekends. RV road trips. Disney World, as adults, with matching outfits and no apologies. Sporting events that double as excuses to visit cities we have always wanted to see. Work trips that tag on a few extra days for exploration. And pretty much everything revolves around great food and a good cocktail — because what is travel without both?

We are not travel influencers with perfect photos and flawless itineraries. We are two people who have figured out a few things, are still figuring out others, and share all of it honestly — the splurges that were absolutely worth it, the ones that were not, and everything in between.