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I learned to love the adventure and joy of travel at a young age, as my<br />
parents instilled in me this appreciation for other places and cultures and<br />
a desire to be a student of the world through travel. This passion grew<br />
within me over the years as I got older. By the time I graduated from college,<br />
I’d spent time living in London and had visited over a dozen countries.<br />
The wanderlust, the thirst for adventure, the quest for freedom, and the<br />
passion for connecting with the world around me in new and meaningful<br />
ways was deeply entrenched in who I was as a person.<br />
After some hard life experiences in my 20s at the end of college that kept<br />
me from the travel and adventure I loved, I started a career in real estate at<br />
30 years old. I founded and grew several successful companies in the real<br />
estate, multimedia, and venture-backed tech startup spaces, and then<br />
“came back home” to one of my deepest passions by founding Weekender<br />
when I was 37 in the spring of 2021.<br />
I was fortunate to have a childhood that included travel, adventure,<br />
new experiences, and an appreciation for lifelong explorations—of both<br />
the world around us and of ourselves. I founded Weekender because I<br />
wanted to provide a setting for others to do the same thing. I wanted<br />
Weekender to be a guide focused on helping bring newfound joy, freedom<br />
and adventure to their lives. And, most importantly, it is my hope that<br />
Weekender is an invitation and an inspiration to others to create their own<br />
memories just like the ones I created and hold so dear.<br />
Weekender started with a property in the Adirondack Mountains of<br />
Upstate NY—where I had spent so many amazing summers in childhood.<br />
It was a refocus on what makes life worth living: the sense of adventure<br />
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