About
Established in 2013
After over 15 years working for international education and creating and guiding incredible tours around Europe and Russia; researching tucked away hotels, tasting exquisite recipes from chefs, scouting out great local guides that brought the history to life by sharing stories and lore of their ancestors, we decided to start our own travel consulting and guide business. Drawing on our experience working for great Education & Travel organizations: Kaplan, Kings Colleges, Cruise West, MIR Corp, Rick Steves Europe Through the Back Door, along with creating our own travels, our goal has been to produce a resource for you, the traveler, to get the best out of your vacation.
We are proud to be former Peace Corps Volunteers. We were accepted into Peace Corps and sworn into service in Kiev, Ukraine in spring 1998. The newly instated Business Development program in Ukraine gave us the opportunity to help with Marketing at a brewery in Kharkov, advise a Women’s Non-Profit Organization in Uzhgorod and teach Marketing at Vinnetsya University. It was an interesting two years of learning the language, the culture and the incredible history of Ukraine and the former Soviet Union.
We look forward to working with you
Renee & Adam
What compels us to leave home and travel to other places?
to leave our certainties at home and see everything in a different light. We live a simpler life when traveling by living with only the items we brought. When we travel we stay up a little later, we are more apt to trust the stranger on the street and we amazingly find time to watch the sunset. We become giddy when seeing a cow in Switzerland and a Baskin Robbins in Ukraine is somehow a novelty. Travel is a heightened state of awareness, in ourselves and in our surroundings.
Let Itinerest create an itinerary that allows you to focus on soaking up the essence of your destination.
The Itinerest format is to provide you with a clear daily itinerary, listing great suggestions for your day. Our goal is to give you the time to focus on your surroundings on your trip rather than worrying about all the details. All pins on an Itinerest itinerary are researched and acutely thought out with timings in mind so you have a road map of your day. But there always comes a time to sway off of the road ahead to get that perfect photo, or just sleep in that day. That’s what makes the Itinerest itinerary planning so wonderful, it becomes a fluid road map of possibilities of what you could do in the day but you are not tied to it.
who's behind itinerest
Itinerest was born after 12 years of tour operations and guiding for Cruise West, MIR Corporation and Rick Steves. We also have been creating our own itineraries for travel throughout the United States, Europe, Russia, South America and Southeast Asia. It was a natural transition to help others with their specific travel requests and create tailored itineraries for them.
Independent of whether the travel planning was for a tour company, ourselves or friends, it was clear that the formula was the same: create travel efficiency by minimize the research once we were at our destination giving us more time to take in our surroundings + list multiple suggestions and ideas to choose from throughout the day within our location = creating a perfect itinerary with room for exploration.