ABOUT ME
I'm Ginny Armstrong. I'd lost faith in group travel — the motor coaches, the chain hotels, the same restaurants as everyone else. Where's the authenticity? I wanted to travel the way I do — with people who wanted the same. So I went looking for something small, intimate, and design-forward, built around local, independent places and the people who run them. I couldn't find it. So I started building it, and now I plan it for other people.
I grew up traveling all over the world. My dad owned a travel agency in our hometown and took groups overseas — London, Ecuador, the Galápagos, and Tunisia, all before I was ten. None of it would have happened without my grandmother Dorothy. She loved the world. More than that, she loved showing me the world. She is the reason Comara exists — the one who let me witness a way of living other than the one I knew. Comara is named for her.
And then there is the grandmother I am named after. Ginny had a habit I didn't recognize until I was old enough to miss it: she saved you a seat. At the table, at church, in whatever crowded room she'd reached first. She did it without ceremony and without making you thank her for it. You just arrived, and there was a place, and it had your name on it the way unspoken things do. She saved that seat for everyone — the ones who belonged, and the ones who weren't sure they did.
Comara is that seat, kept. One grandmother gave me the world. The other gave me her name, and a table where everyone has a place. This is the table set for the women who become each other's chosen family.
Today, Comara works as a travel advisory. I plan trips for individuals, couples, and small groups, starting with the Portugal I've scouted myself. I book through Fora Travel, which means you get preferred rates and perks at partner hotels, the same prices as booking direct, and a team behind me if anything changes mid-trip.
I live in Colorado with my wife and our kids. I came to all this later than some — I was married to a man before I understood I was gay. My wife and I have built a family the way a lot of ours are built: a few different beginnings, all of it ours. We take on too many projects — life would be boring otherwise - and love to spend time outdoors. I am so appreciative that you're here. Even if we don't end up meeting, I do hope you say hello.
- Ginny
