Travel advisors feel like something our parents did. Start with a room, or hand me the whole trip.
Coming to Milwaukee for the Series? I'll book the room and meet you for coffee. Start with a room, or hand me the whole trip.
Planned by a queer, neurodivergent advisor who thinks about the details so you don't have to.
Think of me as the perfect mullet: I know which angle your trip needs, business up front or party in back, and it looks good from a distance. Up close, it takes me three passes to get it right. That's the job.
The easy way in What you get: tell me where and your budget. I send three rooms inside it: an Ember (budget), a Slow Burn (comfort) and a Bonfire (splurge), each with its perks, plus an Eat, Drink, Do card for where you're staying. You pick, I book.
Why me: the cheapest room rarely gets you the best trip. I book through the Fora Travel portal, so you get perks and experiences you can't get booking direct.
No planning fee
The whole trip What you get: the itinerary, day by day: where to sleep, what to do, where to eat, how to get there. Booking links, per-person costs and a clear next step. It includes a complimentary 30-minute Burn Session.
Why me: an itinerary built around how you actually travel, by someone who has done the homework. One round of changes, then I book it with you.
$333
Up to 7 nights · $555 up to 14 · $111 each extra week. Add-on: a mailed itinerary with a trinket I pick for you and cards to pass along, priced separately.
I'm the daughter in My Big Fat Greek Wedding, glowing up after the divorce instead of before the wedding.
Not the cheapest. The one that makes the rest of your trip better, in the neighborhood you'll want to walk.
Upgrades, credits and extras I can reach through my advisor access. They vary by property, and you never pay more for them.
Eat, Drink, Do for your location, or the whole itinerary. Stuck on everything? Let me help.
Think boutique hotel, not Howard Johnson. And the ADHD tax on trip planning? I already paid it. My Fora Travel Advisor page
Day by day, with booking links, per-person costs and a clear next step.
Why this place, this week, this hotel. Fierce kindness, not Midwest nice.
Print and delivery are a paid add-on, never a surprise.
Driftless excursions, state park camping and glamping, Main Street weekends, Door County, off-highway road trips and Northwoods escapes. Fifteen years of knowing which exit to take.
Where the glaciers never went: hidden valleys, spring creeks and a river snaking through them.
A boutique in a renovated 1898 candy factory: exposed brick, original maple floors, a rooftop in summer.
Eat, drink and everything else on your trip is customized to you when you book.
Friday: drive in along the river, valley overlook, supper in the nearest town. Saturday: paddle or fish the river, a ridge hike, taproom. Sunday: cafe breakfast, one more valley road home.
The right park for the season, the campsite worth booking, and group camp getaways for work retreats and friend trips.
Yurts and safari tents on Driftless bluffs above the Mississippi.
Eat, drink and everything else on your trip is customized to you when you book.
Day one: the right site, camp set, sunset trail. Day two: paddle or hike, taproom, fire. Day three: breakfast in town, one more overlook, home.
Small-town weekends: shops, supper clubs, a diner worth the drive and the bartender who tells you where to go next.
Eat, drink and everything else on your trip is customized to you when you book.
Saturday: coffee, shop row, lunch counter, record store, supper club. Sunday: brunch, bookshop, one last bar stool conversation.
Past the fish boil: the quiet side of the peninsula.
Eat, drink and everything else on your trip is customized to you when you book.
Day one: bay-side drive, orchard stop, fish boil. Day two: state park shoreline, cider, sunset. Day three: bakery, gallery, home before the traffic.
A route built around the places the interstate skips.
Eleven suites in restored buildings on the Great River Road, with river views.
Eat, drink and everything else on your trip is customized to you when you book.
Day one: the route out, three stops, a motor court. Day two: the scenic loop, a pie stop, a town you did not plan on. Day three: the long way home.
Lakes, pines and a cabin with a woodstove.
Eat, drink and everything else on your trip is customized to you when you book.
Friday: drive up, stock the cabin, fish fry. Saturday: canoe, trail, woodstove evening. Sunday: slow breakfast, one more lake, home.
Planning a state park weekend? Start there. Milwaukee on foot? Milwaukee weekends.
Room to wander, stays that feel welcoming, and a budget that is smart with the best taste. Key West is the proof.
Milwaukee weekends on foot (the neighborhoods, the lake, eat like you live here), plus city weekends, urban nature and intermodal trips.
Thanksgiving in Chicago · Nov 27 to 29
You've Got Mail, moved to the Second City. Mornings are yours. Lobby at 11:11, out by noon.
The Shop Around the Corner
Fox Books and a Chicago dog
The meet
Where to sleep
Three picks. Rates per room, per night, before tax.
Five questions back to the family: which hotel, how long, how you're getting there, your nightly budget, and what you want.
Fill out the trip request. I reply within two business days.
I tell you straight whether it's a good fit. If it is, you pay the $333 planning fee.
First draft within a week, one round of changes, then I book it with you.
Your fee includes a complimentary 30-minute Burn Session: walk through the trip with me live, or save it for a rainy day.
Sunday, in your briefs. Field Briefs from the Furnace land every Sunday at 11:11, something to read with your coffee and chase the Sunday scaries awaythe one thing that shows up at the witching hour and chases the Sunday scaries away: what's new in the Furnace, and what's new in the Typeset, the people I know doing great things. Email only, never texts.
After you sign up, the first email is a hello, plus a card you can pass to your person. Email only, unsubscribe anytime. Privacy
Three ways I work, one furnace. Tap a card to read the piece in the Press.
The Key West essay, told straight.
Read in the PressA walking guide for people who notice things.
Read in the PressA day in the life of a solo creative.
Read in the PressThe thinking. A trip built around you, up to 7 nights: where to sleep, what to do, where to eat, and how to get from one to the next. It includes a complimentary 30-minute Burn Session to walk through the trip live, or save for a rainy day. Going longer? Up to 14 nights is $555, with a free 60-minute Burn Session.
No. Send one trip request, by chat or form. I read it myself and reply within two business days with a yes, a not-yet, or a question.
After I say yes. Then your itinerary lands within a week of the fee, with one round of changes.
Yes. Milwaukee and Wisconsin are home turf, and I've camped every Wisconsin state park. I'll plan a trip anywhere that's safe and welcoming for you.
Tell me when you can leave and what you're running from. I'll bring back three places.
Approved notes show here.
Been somewhere I should know about? Planning something and want a second opinion? Tell me.
Got it. I read every note. If you ticked the box, it goes up once I've approved it, with your name on it.
Send them the card. It's sized for Instagram, Facebook and Threads, and it brings them right back here. Tag @furnace.creative so I can say thank you.
Sending me to a friend? Pick the card that fits them.
Book a session and I send you your own Pass a match link after. When a friend books a paid session with it, your next 15 minutes are on me.
Book a BurnMy own walks, written up the way I'd build your trip. Maps, meals, the hotel.
Read the field guidesOne Wisconsin park a week, and the trip I'd plan around it. Follow along or join the Rangers.
Follow the bookGift a Burn Session or a whole trip. The cards never expire.
Give a giftYou've got the spark.
I've got the matches.