Hey y’all, I’m Jay from Savannah, Georgia, USA. I love traveling to off-beat destinations, but more than anything I love figuring out the best way to get from Point A to Point B. Travel is my passion. Just thinking of a new destination launches me into travel planner mode. I’m also a lawyer and a pretty darn good golfer.
Growing up in the Southern US, I didn’t know a lot about international travel. After graduating from college, I got a four month work visa to Australia. Four months was much longer than I’d ever been away from home. I ended up staying ten months. On that first trip I traveled the majority of Southeast Asia, including Myanmar, which was REALLY off-beat at the time.
Left: simulating the 20 RMB note in Xingping, China
However, life comes at you fast. I ended up back home in Savannah and tried to become a professional golfer, which clearly didn’t pan out. I then entered the real world and moved to Los Angeles. Fast forward four years and I’m right back where I started: in the American South. That was 2010. I hadn’t left the US since 2004. I hadn’t even wanted to. That’s when things began to change.
I ended up going to go to law school, but right before I started I went on a two-week trip to Canada with a friend. It immediately rekindled my desire to travel…but I’d just enrolled in law school.
Right: pretending a poster is a telescope in Roquefort, France
Oddly enough, law school gave me the opportunity to travel that I hadn’t had in years. After my first year, I did a summer study abroad in Montpellier, France, and traveled in Europe for three weeks after the program ended. I was hooked. Since the start of that 2013 trip, I’ve been to over 60 countries.
I’ve taken the Trans-Siberian railroad, played golf on Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, camped at the Door to Hell in Turkmenistan, seen the salt flats in Bolivia, swam in the Dead Sea, and climbed the Great Wall of China…and I’m just getting started.
Left: golf at Cruden Bay, Scotland
Now it’s my turn to help you. I want to inspire you to travel the world and experience new people, places, and things.
More than anything, I want to help you travel better and more efficiently.
If there’s one thing I’ve learned about travel, it’s that research and trip planning can make or break your trip.
Right: finding my inner Soviet in Novosibirsk, Russia
Through my many failures, experiences, and misadventures in over 70 countries, I hope to inspire others to book the flight, get the visa, and take the chance. I promise you’ll learn from it.