Why I Started TravelherCo (And Why Our Trip to Greece is Not Just Another Girls' Trip)
It started on a road trip through the Scottish Highlands.
It was 2017 and I was on a break from serving at a Christian guesthouse I'd helped start on the island of Crete. A close friend and I decided to do a road trip through Scotland and somewhere in the middle of all that dramatic scenery and long drives and real conversation, I felt the Lord say something to me clearly: connect women around faith and travel.
I didn't know exactly what that looked like yet. I just knew what I was experiencing (deep friendship, adventure, God showing up in unexpected places) was something more women needed access to… so I started an Instagram, a website, and began posting. TravelherCo was born.
A Big Idea Person Who Finally Worked at One Thing
I'll be honest with you: I am a big-idea person. I genuinely believe most things are possible, which means I have approximately one hundred ideas at any given time. TravelherCo has always been the one I've come back to. Not perfectly, but consistently. It's the idea closest to my heart, the one I've worked at longest (nine-years at the writing of this), and the one that keeps drawing me back even when life gets complicated and other things compete for my attention.
Part of why it stuck is that I saw a real gap nobody was filling.
There's mission trips, which are beautiful and important. I know it firsthand from my experience on the World Race, short-term missions, and years connected to ministry in Crete... and there's the typical vacation travel, tourism, "girls' trip" — fun, but often spiritually hollow. What I couldn't find was anything in the middle: a trip that was adventurous and fun and genuinely faith-centered, where prayer and play coexisted naturally, where you could stand at a Biblical site and actually feel the weight of it before going to eat incredible food on a terrace somewhere.
I wanted to bridge that gap and slowly, I found other women who wanted that too… women who became friends over the years, who have their own incredible stories, who kept showing up in this corner of the internet because they felt the same pull I did.
The Ireland Trip That Never Happened (And What Came After)
For years I wanted to do group trips but the timing was never quite right. In 2020, I had a TravelherCo Ireland trip planned. COVID had other ideas. That trip never happened, and for a while, it felt like a closed door.
But in 2023, I was on Episode 41 of the Digital Missions Podcast, talking about faith and travel and what TravelherCo was becoming. A woman named Emilyanne heard it and reached out in early 2024. We started talking. We decided to put a trip together and put it out there in faith, trusting that if God wanted women on it, He'd bring them.
He did.
In less than two years, Emilyanne and I have led four trips together. We're now preparing for our fifth and our third trip back to Greece.
Why Greece Keeps Calling Me Back
Greece isn't a random destination for TravelherCo. It's personal.
My testimony is deeply tied to Greece — to the island of Crete specifically, where I spent time serving, where I built friendships and ministry connections that I still hold today. When I walk through Crete with a group of women, I'm not showing them somewhere I found in a travel magazine. I'm taking them somewhere that shaped me.
On our Greece trip, we do everything you'd hope for: we see the biblical sites in Athens and Corinth, we eat food that makes you wonder why you ever ate anywhere else, we enjoy some of the world’s most beautiful beaches, we connect and laugh and have the kinds of conversations that only happen when you're far from home and your guard is down but we also do something most tour groups don't do: we visit a local church in Crete and spend time with the people there learning what life and ministry look like for believers in modern Greece, firsthand.
That's not an add-on. That's the point.
What TravelherCo Actually Is
TravelherCo started as an Instagram and a website by a woman traveling through Scotland who felt like God was telling her something. Nine years later, it's a community of women who believe travel can be both joyful and purposeful and that you don't have to choose between the Acropolis at golden hour and genuine spiritual depth.
We're not a missions organization. We're not a luxury tour company. We're somewhere in the middle… on purpose.
Every woman who comes on a TravelherCo trip shows up wanting the same thing: more than a vacation. She wants adventure that means something. She wants to come home changed in some small way.
If that's you, I think you're in the right place.
TravelherCo started because I couldn't find the type of travel I was looking for, so I built it. Nine years later, I'm still building it and every trip, I watch women come home different, moved by God in ways they can't quite put into words yet.
That's the whole point. Not just a great vacation. Not a missions trip. A travel experience that manages to be both.
This September, we go back to Greece. If something in this story resonated with you, I don't think that's an accident. Come read about the trip — and if it feels like yours, I'd love to see you there.