Growing up, my mom was obsessed with travel. She'd drag me through the planning process—spreadsheets, budgets, itineraries - staying in hostels with me and my brother as we traveled Europe with nothing but backpacks on at 10 or 11 years old. Fast forward to summer 2020. My mom passed away. I was heading back to school in Santa Barbara, and I was struggling. I missed my friends and I didn't want to be alone either,. So i planned a vacation to Hawaii and called up my friends and said: 'Hawaii. $600 total—flight, car, house. One week. Are you in?' They all said yes. That trip changed everything. Not just for me, but for all of us. Many of the people who came on that first trip had never been out of Texas before. And there was this moment on the beach looking at the sunset with all of my friends standing next to me, where my friend Saul looked over and said: 'I never thought I'd get to see this.' That moment stuck with me. We ran it back many more more times over the next few years. Hawaii, Costa Rica, beyond. And what I kept noticing was that most of our friends had never traveled internationally before these trips. But now? Many of them have seen more of the world than their parents ever did. And that's when we learned that people want this. They want to travel together. They just don't know how to make it happen. - Jake Paterson, Co-Founder

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