Blog - Onward Travel

Experience Crete through its Local Families

We are so excited to bring a new destination to our travelers this year: Crete, the island with everything! Both weeks of this tour booked quickly directly from our interest lists (which is why it’s important to join those), but we want…

Journal, Onward Access

An Afternoon with Halfdan Pedersen

This spring Onward Travel brought a group of AIGA members from across the United States to Iceland for Spring B'Reykjavik, our third annual design-focused trip centered around the Icelandic design festival called DesignMarch. One of the highlights…

Journal, Recipes

Reminiscing about Amore in Italy: Tuscany

In October we travelled to Tuscany for two back-to-back tours with Chef Jenna of Amore Trattoria in Grand Rapids, Michigan. We visited charming Tuscan villages: Cortona, Greve in Chianti, Montalcino, Bagno Vignoni, Siena... and savored the absolutely…

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Molly’s Highlights from Cornell Hotel School’s HEC Conference

A few days after getting from home Spring B’Reykjavik, our design-tour of Iceland with AIGA, I re-packed my suitcase and headed to Cornell University for a long weekend. Every year, the Cornell Hotel School hosts Hotel Ezra Cornell, a weekend…

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Onward and upward, indeed!

Nearly three years ago, Kat and I founded Onward Travel with a simple website and a serious passion for travel. We’d grown up observing our mother and grandmother host culinary tours all over Europe and the U.S. (with fabulous partners like…