To Gavin, Quinn, and Summer, This is where we keep our travels. The photos, the memories, and the stories behind them. From the very beginning, we wanted this to be about more than just seeing new places.

We wanted you to sit with different cultures, taste foods you couldn't pronounce, learn the folklore and religions and traditions that shape people's lives on the other side of the world, and come home a little more curious and a little more compassionate than when you left.

Because we wanted you to grow up knowing that the world is vast and breathtaking and worth every bit of effort it takes to explore it. We wanted you to stand in front of oceans and mountains, to watch sunrises over deserts, to look up at the Northern Lights and dive into worlds beneath the surface.

What has meant the most isn't the places. It's watching the three of you grow up with open eyes and humble hearts. You have quietly carried the world with you, and it shaped you into people we are endlessly proud of.

Travel has built something between you as siblings and between all of us as a family that nothing else could have. Those bonds were forged somewhere between long flights, lost luggage, foreign menus, and moments of pure wonder that none of us will ever forget.

The greatest thing travel ever gave us wasn't a destination. It was you three, seeing it all for the first time.

Love, Mom and Dad