Your passport tells a story. Let the world be your ink.
We're Elaine & Kenan, a travel design duo based in Istanbul. She's American, he's Turkish, and we believe every journey should mean something.
Before Kenan proposed, he gave Elaine his old passport. Unused, expired, waiting for adventures that never came. It became a symbol: a blank page for us to fill together. His first stamp in the new one? Montenegro, where we got engaged.
Now we design travel experiences for people who want to feel something real. We approach destinations the way you'd approach someone you love: with curiosity, respect, and presence.
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We weren't expecting company on that felucca. The sun was dropping behind the West Bank the way it only does in Egypt, like the sky settling into something ancient, when the boat next to ours called out in Arabic, bold and unfamiliar. We had no dates to break the fast, our guide said. Then, before we could make sense of it, a second boat was cutting across the water toward us, a very young man at the oars, holding dates.
Their moment. And they chose to share it with us.
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When you think of Christmas markets around the world, where do you think of first? I must admit we hadn't ever thought the Balkans would have such great ones, but we loved this one in Serbia!
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I’ve always loved Rumi’s quotes, but I didn’t realize he spent most of his life in Konya, Turkey, where his teachings inspired the Mevlevi Order: the Whirling Dervishes.
“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”
Watch the full video to see this centuries-old tradition come alive in Istanbul.
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This was not the adventure we planned when we asked the family to meet us in Paris... What is your craziest travel story??
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