Kelly Chappie has been traveling since she was a small child. Once she took a flight with her brother; she was five, and he was three. They were traveling alone, so her brother had to pretend to be five, but when asked his age by the flight attendant, he held up only three fingers. When the flight ended up making an (unrelated) emergency landing in Los Angeles, Kelly convinced a flight attendant to let her off the plane, and she called her parents from a payphone to ask why, when they’d promised that her grandparents would greet them at the airport, here they were in Los Angeles with no grandparents. Five-year-old Kelly did get back on that plane with her three-year-old charge, and she’s been traveling since. She’s driven around Sicily in a 1970 Fiat, been stranded at night in the French countryside during a train strike, enjoyed a private weekend tour of NATO, road-tripped across the U.S. in search of a quilt, and toured Europe for six weeks with her six-month-old daughter and the band Counting Crows (her husband was in the opening band)—and had many more adventures. Kelly has more than 20 years of experience managing nonprofits and launching successful re-branding campaigns. She enjoys dual citizenship with Italy and loves Sicily—especially a little beach with blue and white umbrellas in Cefalu.