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Insider’s Guide to Thailand

Thailand is the destination closest to my heart — it's where we traveled to adopt our son and where our family became complete. 🙏🌺✨ From golden temples to turquoise waters, it is one of the most breathtaking and soul-stirring places on earth. As a Fora Travel Advisor and photographer, I would love to help you experience its magic for yourself. 📸🌏 Check out our Travel Blog for the Full Fora Insider’s Guide to Thailand. V Gallery the Art of Travel

Thailand is the destination closest to my heart — it's where we traveled to adopt our son and where our family became complete. 🙏🌺✨ From golden temples to turquoise waters, it is one of the most breathtaking and soul-stirring places on earth. As a Fora Travel Advisor and photographer, I would love to help you experience its magic for yourself. 📸🌏 Read Fora’s Insider’s Guide to Thailand guide below. V Gallery the Art of Travel

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Planning a Road Trip?

Some of the most beautiful photographs I have ever taken were not planned — they happened out a car window somewhere between a mountain pass and a wide open valley on a road trip I will never forget. 📸🏔️ I grew up road tripping out west with my family every summer and that love of the open road is in my bones. As a Fora Travel Advisor and photographer, I know that a great road trip is not just a vacation — it is a collection of moments, stories, and images that become part of who you are. I am sharing Fora’s Roadtrip guide and I am here to help you plan yours!. 🚗✨ V Gallery the Art of Travel

Some of the most beautiful photographs I have ever taken were not planned — they happened out a car window somewhere between a mountain pass and a wide open valley on a road trip I will never forget. 📸🏔️ I grew up road tripping out west with my family every summer and that love of the open road is in my bones. As a Fora Travel Advisor and photographer, I know that a great road trip is not just a vacation — it is a collection of moments, stories, and images that become part of who you are. I am sharing Fora’s Roadtrip guide and I am here to help you plan yours!. 🚗✨ V Gallery the Art of Travel

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Planning a Vacation out West

There is a reason people have been heading west for centuries — something out there calls to the adventurer in all of us. The mountains. The wide open plains. The red rock canyons carved by ancient rivers. The national parks so magnificent they make you feel like you are standing inside a painting. The big sky that goes on forever and the stars at night so thick and bright they make you catch your breath. I grew up traveling out west every summer with my family and those adventures carved something into my soul that has never faded. The west is in my blood — and after nearly 30 years of exploring it with my camera, I can tell you with absolute certainty that it is one of the most extraordinarily beautiful places on the face of this earth. Check out Fora’s Insider guide to traveling out west — the national parks, the road trips, the hidden gems, and all the breathtaking moments in between. Saddle up. Let's go. 🌄 Read the guide on our travel blog. V Gallery the Art of Travel

There is a reason people have been heading west for centuries — something out there calls to the adventurer in all of us. The mountains. The wide open plains. The red rock canyons carved by ancient rivers. The national parks so magnificent they make you feel like you are standing inside a painting. The big sky that goes on forever and the stars at night so thick and bright they make you catch your breath. I grew up traveling out west every summer with my family and those adventures carved something into my soul that has never faded. The west is in my blood — and after nearly 30 years of exploring it with my camera, I can tell you with absolute certainty that it is one of the most extraordinarily beautiful places on the face of this earth. Check out Fora’s Insider guide to traveling out west — the national parks, the road trips, the hidden gems, and all the breathtaking moments in between. Saddle up. Let's go. 🌄 Read the guide on our travel blog. V Gallery the Art of Travel

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Florida's Gulf Coast

If you have never watched a sunset from the Gulf Coast of Florida you have not yet seen what a sunset can truly be. Every single evening the sky above the Gulf puts on a show so spectacular — so impossibly vivid in its golds and pinks and deep burning oranges — that people stop whatever they are doing, gather on the beach, and watch in complete and reverent silence until the last sliver of sun sinks below the water and the whole sky sighs into dusk. Clearwater Beach. Siesta Key. Sanibel. Naples. Fort Myers Beach. Every stretch of this coastline delivers evening magic that will stay with you forever. As a Fora Travel Advisor and photographer, sharing these sunsets with others is one of my greatest joys. Check out Fora’s guide to Florida's Gulf Coast — come watch the sun go down with me. 🌅✨🌊 V Gallery the Art of Travel

If you have never watched a sunset from the Gulf Coast of Florida you have not yet seen what a sunset can truly be. Every single evening the sky above the Gulf puts on a show so spectacular — so impossibly vivid in its golds and pinks and deep burning oranges — that people stop whatever they are doing, gather on the beach, and watch in complete and reverent silence until the last sliver of sun sinks below the water and the whole sky sighs into dusk. Clearwater Beach. Siesta Key. Sanibel. Naples. Fort Myers Beach. Every stretch of this coastline delivers evening magic that will stay with you forever. As a Fora Travel Advisor and photographer, sharing these sunsets with others is one of my greatest joys. Check out Fora’s guide to Florida's Gulf Coast — come watch the sun go down with me. 🌅✨🌊 V Gallery the Art of Travel

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Venice, Italy

The single greatest piece of advice I can give you about Venice — the one thing that will transform your experience of this extraordinary city from wonderful to completely unforgettable — is this. Wake up early. Earlier than you think you need to. Set your alarm for five thirty in the morning, pull on your shoes, and walk out into a Venice that most visitors never see. The canals still and silver in the early light. The calle empty and echoing with your footsteps. The sun rising over the lagoon and turning the whole city to gold one ancient facade at a time. The vegetable boats making their morning deliveries along the back canals. The smell of fresh bread from a bakery not yet open to the public. Venice at dawn is the most beautiful version of an already impossibly beautiful city — and as a photographer and Fora Travel Advisor, I am sharing Fora’s insider's guide to experiencing Venice the way it was meant to be experienced.. 📸🌅✨ V Gallery the Art of Travel

The single greatest piece of advice I can give you about Venice — the one thing that will transform your experience of this extraordinary city from wonderful to completely unforgettable — is this. Wake up early. Earlier than you think you need to. Set your alarm for five thirty in the morning, pull on your shoes, and walk out into a Venice that most visitors never see. The canals still and silver in the early light. The calle empty and echoing with your footsteps. The sun rising over the lagoon and turning the whole city to gold one ancient facade at a time. The vegetable boats making their morning deliveries along the back canals. The smell of fresh bread from a bakery not yet open to the public. Venice at dawn is the most beautiful version of an already impossibly beautiful city — and as a photographer and Fora Travel Advisor, I am sharing Fora’s insider's guide to experiencing Venice the way it was meant to be experienced.. 📸🌅✨ V Gallery the Art of Travel

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