Meet the Family Behind S&G Travel Adventures
Life moves fast, and childhood moves even faster. Every family's adventure looks a little different. Ours happens to include theme parks, cruise ships, road trips, and two curious kids, but the goal is always the same: experience as much of this world together as we can, see a little more of it through their eyes, and make the memories while we have the chance.
How This Adventure Started
S&G Travel Adventures started with a pretty simple realization: we didn't just want to take our kids places. We wanted to experience those places with them.
Like most families, life gets busy. Work, school, schedules, responsibilities and everything else have a way of filling the calendar before you even realize it. After taking a trip without everyone together, something felt different. We missed the noise, the extra planning, the little hands to keep track of and even the occasional chaos. Somewhere along the way, we realized that traveling as a family wasn't making the adventure harder. It was becoming the reason for the adventure in the first place.
Then something else happened. We started seeing the places we visited differently because Selene and Gryffin were seeing them for the first time. Things we might have walked right past became reasons to stop. A bug on the sidewalk could derail an entire walk. A character interaction could become the story told all the way home. A ride Mom and Dad might have considered a one-and-done could become the greatest attraction ever built when viewed from five-year-old eyes.
Kids have a wonderful way of finding something extraordinary in places adults have learned to see as ordinary.The more we traveled together, the more we realized we didn't simply want to show our children the world. We wanted to be right there beside them while they discovered it, and maybe rediscover a little of it ourselves along the way.
That's ultimately what S&G Travel Adventures is about. Yes, you'll find travel tips, cruise experiences, Universal Orlando adventures, planning lessons and plenty of things we'd do differently next time. But underneath all of it is something much simpler: childhood moves incredibly fast, and we want to be present for as much of it as we possibly can.
We're not trying to make family travel look perfect. Ours certainly isn't. We're simply documenting the adventures, sharing what we've learned and hopefully encouraging another family to say yes to an experience they might otherwise have put off.
See the world through their eyes. Make the memories. Take the trip.
Mom (Elisha)
Master kid wrangler. Head of snack management. The Boss.
Meet the Family
Dad (Cam)
Head of travel logistics. Goofball extraordinaire. The Butler.
Kiddo (Selene)
Themed Headband fashion expert. Waterslide aficionado. The Princess.
Buddy (Gryffin)
Human Battery Pack. ButterBeer connoisseur. The Baby.
What You'll Find Here
❤️ The Memories Behind the Miles
Because where we go is only part of the story. We're also sharing the moments, lessons and pieces of family life that remind us why we're taking these adventures in the first place.
-
Deliberate, present parenting
-
Seeing the world through their eyes
-
Real experiences, not perfection
-
Celebrating the little moments
Travel has never been about checking destinations off a list. For us, it’s about being together, experiencing something new, and giving ourselves the chance to see the world a little differently through our children’s eyes.
Why We Travel
👣 Make the Memories
There will probably never be a perfect time to take the trip. Schedules get busy, budgets require planning, and life has a remarkable ability to fill every empty space on the calendar. But childhood doesn’t wait for the perfect opening. We’d rather make the time, take the adventure, and collect the memories while we can.
🌎 See the World Through Their Eyes
Kids notice things we’ve learned to walk past. A tiny bug can stop an entire hike. A character interaction can become the highlight of a vacation. A simple ride can be worth riding five times in a row. Traveling with Selene and Gryffin reminds us that the biggest attraction isn’t always the most memorable one. Sometimes we just need to slow down and see what they see.
🚢 The Adventure Is in the Journey
Not every trip goes according to plan, and some of our favorite memories exist because it didn’t. Flights get delayed, weather changes, ports disappear from itineraries, and carefully made plans get abandoned because something else catches the kids’ attention. We’ve learned that the adventure isn’t only where we’re going. It’s everything that happens while we’re getting there together.
"Life moves fast, and childhood moves even faster."
The Adventure Continues
There are still countless places we want to experience together, from little discoveries close to home to adventures waiting on the other side of the world. We may never see it all, but that certainly won’t stop us from trying.
🧭 There Will Always Be Somewhere New
👣 They’re Growing. So Are the Adventures.
The adventures we can take with Selene and Gryffin are changing right alongside them. Longer journeys, bigger rides, new foods, different questions and experiences they weren’t ready for just a few years ago are suddenly becoming possible. Someday they may even be the ones telling us where we’re going next.
🌎 The World Is Still Enormous
The more we explore, the more we realize how much is still out there. New countries, cultures, landscapes and experiences are waiting, but so are trails we haven’t walked close to home and places we don’t even know to dream about yet. There will always be another corner of the world worth discovering together.
We’re grateful for every adventure that’s brought us here, but we know this chapter won’t last forever. So while those little feet are still willing to adventure alongside ours, we plan to keep going.
Every adventure becomes a memory. The next one is waiting to be made.
Every family has a different story to tell. This is ours.
We’re sharing the places we explore, the lessons we learn, the plans that work, the ones that absolutely don’t, and the little moments that remind us why we started doing this in the first place. We hope our family’s story inspires you to make a few more memories of your own.
See the world through their eyes.
Small Feet. Big Adventures.