As avid travelers, we’ve noticed a difference between the usual trips of large travel agencies and our own personally crafted, small group adventures.
We offer travel with real ingredients— something to cherish and fill your heart long after your flight home.
It’s sure to be nothing less of ineffable, as words cannot describe how it will shape you. You’ll simply need to experience it for yourself.
Each trip is personally crafted and led by us— Laura and Creed. These are places we’ve explored ourselves beforehand, or have researched intensely in preparation. While we certainly don’t neglect the popular attractions, we also love to explore lesser-known hideaways.
Our name is “Educated Wanderer,” afterall. Other tour directors are confined to a script and often neglect to live in the moment. Although we map out itineraries, we’re opportunists at heart. A bar special? A spontaneous street performance? We’re in.
Our trips are also quite adventurous, often requiring travelers to walk anywhere from 3 to 10 miles a day. This way, we see everything and really get to know the places verses breezing by history in unexpected places.
You’re embarking on a journey with a pair who’s made travel their whole lives, not rehearsed tour guides.
With this, you also get two people— soon to be friends— who deeply care about what matters to you. We’ll help you find the places you are interested in and want to see beyond the itinerary. We’re also just pretty damn fun! We love cheering drinks, flipping through musty books and getting to know our fellow explorers as travel companions, not chaperones.
Because each trip’s itinerary is thoughtfully hand-crafted by us, there’s a level of care and connection unmatched by most travel companies.
Our destinations are based on our own favorite finds, through years of immersive travel. Each season, we choose different regions, ensuring there’s always a new trip in the works. Even when we go back to the same destination, the journey will be different every time.
We like to think of slow travel as akin to slow eating, where you take the time to truly appreciate and digest what you’re consuming. Instead of blurring through a half dozen or so destinations like other group tours, we focus our travel on roughly two major cities a trip.
This “less is more” mentality allows us to gain knowledge of the complexities of each area, and truly experience each culture.
Here’s where the “Educated” in Educated Wanderer comes into play. We think that learning should be purposeful, enlightening and thought-provoking, which is why we recommend a combination of reading and travel.
While we don’t make our suggested books mandatory (and don’t make you write essays!), reading even just one of them only enhances your experience.
Your trip will include airfare, accommodations, planned tour and admissions fees and transportation costs from the time you get on the plane till you depart. This saves you from worrying about expenses and allows you to focus instead on your experience.
Meal are on your own so you can enjoy the cuisine of your choice and sample all the flavors of the culture. Food it, without a doubt, deeply cultural and the best places to experience that are small restaurants that don’t accommodate even small groups of our size. It’s best to just wander, find a place where the menu is not in English and jump into a culinary adventure!
Continuous learning
Compassion and caring through understanding common humanity
A sense of curiosity and adventure
You may pay for the trip either in one payment or you may pay in installments beginning with a $500 nonrefundable deposit upon your decision to travel with us. Learn more when you book your trip.
Creed Hyatt has a M.A. in International Political Economy from Fordham University and an M.A. in Philosophy from the University of Malta. Laura Pezzulich has a B.A. in Philosophy from Muhlenberg College.
Trip costs include airfare, accommodations, all tours and admissions fees, tour guide tips, train and bus travel within each country, and one group dinner.
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