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Your Personal Travel Guide. No Charge. No Kidding.

In tourist locations, it’s easy for vacationers to get pressured by cynically commercial enterprises vying for your dollar. A few hours downtown and you may begin to feel everyone wants to sell you a tour, timeshare, or Reiki for your rental car. This website and I can help you get past the reek of the tourist economy and into the natural beauty and power that makes these areas havens for people seeking a meaningful celebration, retreat, or adventure.

The number one reason people tell us they chose our vacation rentals is that we make it easy to plan a meaningful trip. If you’d like rational, local information from an insider, we’re the ones to ask.

“We chose to stay at this vacation rental because of the connection we made with you (Dana)—the help you gave us planning our trip, the personal attention you gave, the time you took to help us make informed decisions about where we might want to stay and what to do,” said Jill from Arkansas, a guest in 2008.

I like to think there are lots of good reasons to stay at the Casita or Riverview, like the affordable luxury, the locations in nature, the hypo-allergenic, clean air. But the one guests single out is that I help create the perfect itinerary for their getaway vacations—at no charge.

Steve and I have lived and vacationed in Florida and Arizona for decades. I’m a native Floridian and avid birder. Steve is a backcountry guide and historian. We’re both foodies with a fondness for comfort and privacy. We know the tourist traps, the best times to spot an eagle, the best places to celebrate an anniversary, or your freedom. We’ve hiked almost every trail at every time of year, we’ve wandered and wondered about most of what makes the area a treasure.

Call me. We’ll talk about your trip.

You can also start by checking out information we recommend about St. Augustine or Sedona. For Sedona hiking info, click here.