Clare has always had a passion for travel that was fostered by her degree in Geography and a semester abroad in Valencia, Spain. Following employment with Piedmont Airlines and American Express, Clare met Rick in graduate school at Rochester Institute of Technology.  After graduating, Clare entered academia as the Travel & Tourism Program Director at Champlain College in Burlington, Vermont.  During that time, she led and organized nine trips to the Caribbean and Europe, and she and Rick spent a summer teaching in Tel Aviv, Israel.

After living abroad with their young family in Dubrovnik, Clare and Rick moved back to Rochester, NY and Clare started working as Director of the Travel, Tourism & Hospitality Management program at Genesee Community College.  She then jumped at the opportunity to help operate the newly- opened RIT campus in Pristina, Kosovo, and later created the corporate travel department for a telecommunications company. Clare believes that travel is the best education people can get.  For her, the greatest benefit of sharing travel with others is witnessing how exposure to new peoples and their cultures, as well as exploring diverse environments brings a newfound appreciation for, and increased tolerance of others.