Beyond the Itinerary

Group travel, designed for your group. Wherever the trip belongs.

We design immersive, custom-curated journeys for executive teams, forums, universities, families and communities: private villas, boats and yachts, adventure and cultural immersion. The destination chosen for the group. All seamlessly planned. All beautifully delivered.

A family business. We design the whole journey.

Groups We’ve Hosted

YPOEOSyracuse University

Who We Work With

Four kinds of groups

The same standard of execution, whether it’s a board, a forum, a faculty, a family, or a community you lead.

  • Executive Teams & Forums

    Offsites, leadership summits, and YPO and EO forums, three to four days door to door.

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  • Universities & Faculty

    University and school programs rooted in safety and purpose.

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  • Family & Friends

    Milestone celebrations, reunions, and family journeys.

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  • Community Retreats

    A retreat for the people you lead: a program’s alumni, a membership, a cohort. You bring the people and the purpose; we design the days.

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Kyle and Carlena Torrens by the sea

Why Nature Ways

A brother and sister who design the whole journey

Kyle and Carlena began by planning their own trips, then designing them for others. Nature Ways came out of that: a business built on knowing a place properly before a group arrives, rather than booking it from a catalog.

Every itinerary is designed personally by the two of them, then delivered by operators they have vetted themselves: villas, captains, guides, drivers, and chefs they know by name.

Meet the Founders

What We Handle

Everything, so your group doesn’t have to

One point of contact from the first call to the final airport transfer.

  • Private villas & resort buyouts
  • Ground transport & transfers
  • Private chefs & fine dining
  • Boats, yachts & charters
  • Guided excursions & adventure
  • Discreet private security
  • Childcare & family programming
  • Dietary & medical accommodations

Places

Surfers walking the beach at sunset, the sun low over the seaA hammock under a thatched roof at sunrise, hills behindA palm leaning over a beach at sunsetA paddler standing on the water against the setting sunA cyclist on a wet beach at sunset, the sky reflected in the wet sand

A beach at sunset, a hammock at sunrise, a palm over the sand, a paddler, a cyclist on the wet beach: the coast at the hours a trip starts and ends.

Where we go

Wherever the trip belongs. The place is chosen for the group, not the other way round: a beachfront villa for a forum, a city and its countryside for a faculty program, a coast for a family reunion, somewhere quiet for a community retreat. If your group has somewhere in mind, ask.

What Happens Next

Booking a call is low commitment

  1. A few questions

    Two minutes on group size, dates, and what the trip needs to accomplish.

  2. Thirty minutes with Carlena

    She’ll tell you honestly what’s possible for your group, your dates, and your budget.

  3. A real proposal

    Specific properties, a draft itinerary, and a number. Not a brochure.

Tell us about your group

Carlena handles these conversations personally.

Talk to Carlena