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Sunburst over a Lisbon beach at golden hour

Rockies
to Riviera

A love story, measured in kilometers.
Begin
The canopy at the Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon
Act I
A house takes a name

Ours comes from Lisbon, and from Calouste Gulbenkian, a man of two worlds who built something lasting between them. We are building ours the same way, between the high Rockies of Colorado and the Mediterranean coast of France. The road between is the whole story. We call it Rockies to Riviera.

Act II · What we do

We work with airlines all over the world. It is how we met, it is why we fly so much, and it is why nothing about travel scares us anymore. What we offer is not tricks. It is taste and literacy, from two people who live inside the machine.

Mythbust

Searching twice did not raise your fare.

The systems study the past to guess the future. No one is watching you, specifically. Book when you are ready.

The move

Book early. Watch. Rebook.

On US carriers a canceled ticket usually becomes credit. The early seat costs almost nothing to hold.

Hard truth

European business class is often an empty middle seat.

Save the upgrade for the long haul. That bed is real.

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Act III · Two Worlds
Move the line · this is the life
An alpine ice lake in the Colorado Rockies
A turquoise cove on the French Riviera
01 · His

The Rockies

Durango, Colorado. Alpine air, high passes, the San Juans out the back door.

02 · Hers

The Riviera

The South of France. The coast in summer, the slow good life.

The two of us
Mike and Emilie near Saint-Tropez on the Riviera

An American. A Frenchwoman.
We met working with airlines, and never stopped going.

Near Saint-Tropez · the coast we are building toward

DurangoCavalaire
8,890
kilometers apart

Every thirty days, one of us flies toward the other.
Keep scrolling. Close the distance.

The north star

Zero kilometers.
A small house in the South of France.

Act V · The Road Between

Two roads, then one

His before. Her before. And everywhere since.

Prologue

His road

The American West, before her.

An alpine ice lake in the Colorado Rockies
The San Juans · Colorado
Great Sand Dunes, Colorado
Great Sand Dunes
Prologue

Her road

The coast she comes from.

A turquoise cove near Cavalaire on the French Riviera
Cavalaire · the Var
Leaving Nice on the Riviera
Nice
Together

Our road

Everywhere since we met.

An Amsterdam canal below the Basilica of Saint Nicholas
Amsterdam · first chapter
Mike and Emilie under a sandstone arch, Arches National Park
Arches · Utah
The Great Pyramid of Giza
Giza · Cairo
Prague at Christmas
Prague
The Sagrada Familia, Barcelona
Barcelona
Sunburst over a Lisbon beach
Lisbon · the namesake
Mike and Emilie near Saint-Tropez
Saint-Tropez · onward
Scroll · the road keeps going

TogetherOur road

Amsterdam · Den Haag · Paris · Metz · Frankfurt · Köln · Milan · Rome · Nice · Le Cannet-des-Maures · Cavalaire · Saint-Tropez · Barcelona · Prague · Stockholm · Lisbon · Cairo · Giza · Durango · New York · Moab · Tubac · Tucson · and counting

His beforeThe West

The San Juans · Creede · Great Sand Dunes · Park City · the desert Southwest

Hers beforeThe Coast

The Var · the coves · the slow summers she grew up on

In the air

Between two worlds

The Creed

We live and work inside the world of airlines. What we offer is not tricks, but taste and literacy: how to go well, where the good is, and how to make a life of it. Unpack, so you can be present.