Show Up & Savor
The Multigenerational Cultural Escape Kit
Plan a culturally rich, food-forward vacation your whole family — five to eighty-five — actually enjoys. Without carrying the entire mental load yourself.
A digital planning kit from Aya at Dream in Color Travel.
The trip itself is the easy part.
It's the coordinating that wears you down.
The flights landing at six different times. The grandparent who needs a ground-floor room. The eight-year-old who melts down at 4 p.m. The cousin who's vegetarian. The dinner reservation for eleven.
One person always ends up holding all of it — and that person rarely gets to be fully present on the trip they worked so hard to create.
I'm Aya, and planning trips like these is what I do every day. This kit is the exact system I use — so the coordinating doesn't have to eat your joy.
A 24-page digital kit, built for families traveling together.
Show Up & Savor is a digital planning kit built specifically for multigenerational families, reunions, and milestone trips. It's the same framework I follow when I plan a custom trip from scratch — organized so you can use it yourself, at your own pace.
It's not a generic checklist. It's food-forward, culturally rich, and paced for mixed ages — because a place that dazzles a couple can exhaust a family of eleven, and I've built this to work for everyone at the table.
Eleven tools, one calm system
The Show Up & Savor Method
My 5-step framework for planning a trip everyone enjoys
Three intake worksheets
Capture every traveler's needs, mobility, and dietary considerations before you book
An editable multi-day itinerary template
Paced for a five-year-old and an eighty-year-old on the same day
A mixed-age pacing guide
How to structure days around energy, not just sights
A seasonal planner
When to go across West Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America and Europe
Cultural & culinary idea lists by region
Diaspora-forward, from Ghana and Senegal to Cartagena, Bahia, Oaxaca and beyond
Packing checklists by generation
From little ones to grandparents, plus by climate
A vendor & supplier contact sheet
Every booking and confirmation in one place
A payment-schedule planner
Including how to split cost across households, calmly
A day-of operational checklist
So arrival day runs itself
A pre-trip countdown timeline
So nothing becomes a last-minute scramble
This kit is for you if…
- You're organizing a family reunion, milestone celebration, or extended-family vacation
- Your group spans multiple generations — kids, parents, and grandparents together
- You want a trip that's culturally immersive and food-forward, not just a resort you never leave
- You care about everyone being comfortable and included — elders, little ones, and everyone between
- You'd rather invest in doing it well than wing it and hope it comes together
It's not for…
It's for families who want to plan intentionally and remember it forever.
Spend intentionally, not the most.
Great family travel isn't about spending the most. It's about spending intentionally — on the things that make the trip land for your family, and skipping the things that don't. This kit walks you through those decisions in the right order, so you stop guessing and start planning with the same structure a professional advisor uses.
Hand the whole beautiful, complicated thing to someone who does this every day.
Bespoke planning with me includes sourcing and vetting your properties and villas, booking culturally rich private experiences, arranging accessibility and dietary logistics end to end, structuring supplier deposits and payment timelines, and being your single point of contact before and during the trip.
Start here: send me your travel window and headcount, and I'll tell you what's realistic and beautiful for your family.
Start Planning With AyaGood questions, answered
Your next trip can be the one everyone enjoys — including you.
Show up. Savor. Remember.