Mindi
Schaefer Rodriguez

Choosing a travel advisor is an investment in your most limited resources: time and money. After 30 years in wealth management—leading practice management and sales strategy for advisors serving high-net-worth clients—I have traded managing financial portfolios for "architecting" sensory ones. I don't believe in a "turn-n-churn" retail approach. Instead, I leverage a career built on relationship excellence and meticulous detail to offer Travel Curated—journeys as high-touch as they are transformational.

I am an Experience Architect driven by a Five Senses Philosophy. I believe a well-planned trip should do more than move you from city to city; it should engage every sense—the smell of a spice market, the touch of an artisan’s craft, or the sound of local music—so deeply that you are transported back for decades. Through my affiliation with Pique Travel Design and the Virtuoso Network, I unlock exclusive access and $30 billion in buying power to ensure your journey is seamless, sophisticated, and entirely yours.

If you value a high-touch, tailored approach to seeing the world, let’s talk about your travel dreams.

• My Favorite Clients: I love working with curious, like-minded travelers who believe that shared sensory moments with loved ones are life’s greatest treasures.
• My Go-To Travel Purchase: I collect a Christmas tree ornament from every country I visit to keep those global memories close year after year.
• My Favorite Travel Destinations:
  • Iceland: Where I first saw the world through my parents' fresh eyes—from the midnight sun to geothermal greenhouses.
  • Merida, Mexico: My husband’s hometown, where we dive into cenotes, watch flamingos take flight, and enjoy the "inside scoop" that only family and friends can provide.
  • Morocco: I love the vivid contrast between the sensory bustle of Marrakech and the profound, absolute silence of the Sahara.
  • Austria & Hungary: Where history meets high culture, from the streets of Vienna to the thermal spas of Budapest.
• My Most Memorable Travel Moment: Watching my parents experience their first international trip to Iceland. Seeing my mother photograph common fire hydrants because they looked "different" taught me that wonder lives in the smallest, most ordinary details.
• My Favorite Quote: "To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted." — Bill Bryson