Through our extensive personal travel experience + global partnerships, we help you unplug from everyday stressors and lose yourself in an unforgettable journey, one custom-built to pique your curiosity. Embrace a local way of life, discover away from the crowds, and indulge in luxury touches all along the way.
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Meet Shawn Lamphear and Jon Malpass
After exploring 80+ countries, we founded LM Authentic Travel to share our deep travel passion with others—
Especially busy, stretched-thin professionals who don’t have a minute to plan themselves. We’ve been in your desk chair, and we know nothing is more restorative than a journey designed to inspire.
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We both traded in corporate life for a full-time gig doing what we love most: meticulous, thorough, leave-no-stone-unturned travel design. We’re business partners, travel partners, and life partners; since saying “yes” to one another in 2011, we’ve said “yes” to hundreds of trips together!
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From hair-raising safaris and expeditions to refined resort resets, from wine trail journeys to river cruises down iconic waterways, we can plan (practically) it all.
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