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Explore the world with the confidence of a traveler!

Let’s work on your cultural connections.

My services all have the same goal – to get you to connect with the world and experience authentic culture.

We will set up an initial call together to discuss in depth your specific needs so we can decide which package aligns best to your travel goals.

How we get started:
Complimentary 30 minute call → Proposal → Let’s work on your wander!

Do you love to travel but just don’t know how to start?

Let me help you change that worry to wander by creating a custom itinerary curated for you. After a quick talk about your travel dates, destination, and personal preferences, your travel dreams will become a reality.

Hunting for flight deals and culturally immersive lodgings is my expertise. Why wonder if you’re choosing the right accommodation when an expert can do it for you? Culturally immersive travel takes tons of research and careful planning to get it right.

With over 15 years experience in traveling and almost a decade testing out different modes of travel with my students, I know all the ins and outs of what it takes to create a meaningful and culturally immersive itinerary for you.

Don’t spend an eight hour flight wondering if your Airbnb is actually like the photos or if you’re walking into a surprise.

Don’t spend your days aimlessly walking through unknown streets trying to find out what you’re supposed to be seeing in that city.

Let me do the prep work for you so that you can be comfortable and confident with your travels. Give yourself the time and the space to wander and connect with locals and the real culture.

Your travel planning package includes:

  • flight research
  • transport research
  • lodging research
  • restaurant recommendations
  • tourist attraction recommendations
  • leisure activity recommendations

Have you tried to learn another language on your own but it’s just not working? Or maybe you studied French in high school but remember nothing.

I know right? Learning a language is tough, but I’m here to make it a lot easier for you.

With over a decade of public school teaching experience, a master’s degree in education (M.Ed), and five years of private tutoring one-on-one, we will map out your language goals and cater each lesson to your personal learning style and interests.

Every learning style is different, but the access to a certified language teacher with the applied linguistics knowledge can make the difference in your language success.

Let’s use music, pictures, videos, food, architecture, history, geography and more to immerse ourselves in the language!

Your language tutoring package includes:

  • one-on-one language tutoring
  • expert knowledge in language and language teaching
  • lessons catered to you

All language levels accepted.

*Language lessons only available for Italian, French, Spanish, and English.

Travel Coach - The Wander Word

This package offers you all of the benefits and expertise that the language and travel planning packages offer, and a whole lot more.

The full cultural immersion service is for you if you would like a professional to map out your travel experience from start to finish.

We will meet one-on-one to establish your traveling goals, personality, preferences, and learning style.

Our cultural immersion service allows us the time to dig deep and prepare a custom made itinerary that maps out your daily activities.

All your flight research, lodging research, day-to-day itinerary research, and restaurant research will be done for you.

One-on-one coaching will teach you how to culturally immerse yourself.

You will learn how to access the culture of the country before you get there, incorporate it in your daily activities, and process it to learn even more after you get home.

You will gain the skills and knowledge to be able to move like a professional traveler, not a tourist.

One-on-one language tutoring will teach you how to interact and communicate with locals.

We will define your language goals and cater to your learning style, all the while keeping in mind your itinerary and the actual language you will need to be able to speak to make big traveler moves abroad.

You will learn practical language to be able to meet your daily needs while you travel as well as colloquialisms that locals use to communicate with each other.

Your cultural immersion package includes:

  • one-on-one language tutoring
  • one-on-one cultural immersion coaching
  • flight research
  • transport research
  • lodging research
  • restaurant recommendations
  • tourist attraction recommendations
  • leisure activity recommendations

I am very fortunate to have Jessica as my French tutor. Our lessons involve much more than just reviewing vocabulary and grammar. Jessica weaves into our classes discussions about news and current events in France. Because of her experience living and traveling abroad, she has a perspective on language and day-to-day life in other countries that many other foreign language teachers do not have. Her familiarity with customs and lifestyles from other parts of the world make the classes more interesting and relevant.


-Dan W.

The Wander Word
2021-01-19T17:13:03+00:00

-Dan W.

I am very fortunate to have Jessica as my French tutor. Our lessons involve much more than just reviewing vocabulary and grammar. Jessica weaves into our classes discussions about news and current events in France. Because of her experience living and traveling abroad, she has a perspective on language and day-to-day life in other countries that many other foreign language teachers do not have. Her familiarity with customs and lifestyles from other parts of the world make the classes more interesting and relevant.

Jessica planned a tour of Italy during the summer of 2019. She asked me a series of specific questions as to what I wanted to accomplish.  My main request was that I wanted to live like an Italian for three weeks and not be a tourist, to be in or near the sea as much as possible, and to eat like an Italian would at home.


Jessica nailed it.  We rented a car and Jessica found very inexpensive and secure places to leave the car when we entered city’s that I would not feel comfortable driving in. Jessica thought of every little detail that could have made a trip that I planned by myself uncomfortable. Is there parking? Does the accommodations have air conditioning, WiFi, breakfast? She managed to also include Amsterdam as a stopover at no cost. The price of the entire trip, airfare, car, gas, food, lodging and trinkets costs less than the plane tickets alone that a friend bought during the same dates that we went.  We are going back with Jessica as soon as COVID is under control.


-Tina M.

The Wander Word
2021-01-19T17:20:33+00:00

-Tina M.

Jessica planned a tour of Italy during the summer of 2019. She asked me a series of specific questions as to what I wanted to accomplish.  My main request was that I wanted to live like an Italian for three weeks and not be a tourist, to be in or near the sea as much as possible, and to eat like an Italian would at home. Jessica nailed it.  We rented a car and Jessica found very inexpensive and secure places to leave the car when we entered city’s that I would not feel comfortable driving in. Jessica thought of every little detail that could have made a trip that I planned by myself uncomfortable. Is there parking? Does the accommodations have air conditioning, WiFi, breakfast? She managed to also include Amsterdam as a stopover at no cost. The price of the entire trip, airfare, car, gas, food, lodging and trinkets costs less than the plane tickets alone that a friend bought during the same dates that we went.  We are going back with Jessica as soon as COVID is under control.

I had a wonderful getaway with my girlfriend in New Hampshire. Thank you so much for all your hard work. Really appreciate you taking all my needs and wants no matter how ridiculous into consideration and finding me the perfect getaway. The amount of privacy we had, the house on the water, and finding me something so remote so I could spend quality time with my girlfriend really meant a lot.


-Mike T.

The Wander Word
2021-01-19T17:16:26+00:00

-Mike T.

I had a wonderful getaway with my girlfriend in New Hampshire. Thank you so much for all your hard work. Really appreciate you taking all my needs and wants no matter how ridiculous into consideration and finding me the perfect getaway. The amount of privacy we had, the house on the water, and finding me something so remote so I could spend quality time with my girlfriend really meant a lot.

Jessica has been my Italian tutor for several years now. I am of Italian descent and had studied the Italian language in high school and college and now many years later, wanted to reconnect with the language and the culture. Jessica is an absolute inspiration. Her enthusiasm for all things Italian is contagious. She goes out of her way to make lessons enjoyable and interesting. We discuss politics, books, movies and my favorite … food!


I have family in Italy and Jessica helped me improve my language skills so that I was able to really enjoy (and understand!) conversations with my relatives on my last trip. I have a fairly demanding job in healthcare and find myself looking forward to lessons with Jessica as a way to reconnect with other aspects of my mind and soul. My family and friends all know of Jessica well because over the years she really has become a dear friend. I highly recommend working with Jessica especially during these times when we can all use more appreciation of cultural meaning, diversity, and inspiration.


-Melissa D.

The Wander Word
2021-01-19T17:23:38+00:00

-Melissa D.

Jessica has been my Italian tutor for several years now. I am of Italian descent and had studied the Italian language in high school and college and now many years later, wanted to reconnect with the language and the culture. Jessica is an absolute inspiration. Her enthusiasm for all things Italian is contagious. She goes out of her way to make lessons enjoyable and interesting. We discuss politics, books, movies and my favorite … food! I have family in Italy and Jessica helped me improve my language skills so that I was able to really enjoy (and understand!) conversations with my relatives on my last trip. I have a fairly demanding job in healthcare and find myself looking forward to lessons with Jessica as a way to reconnect with other aspects of my mind and soul. My family and friends all know of Jessica well because over the years she really has become a dear friend. I highly recommend working with Jessica especially during these times when we can all use more appreciation of cultural meaning, diversity, and inspiration.
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