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The Mother Daughter Guide

The Founding
Circle.

The Mother Daughter Guide is still in its earliest chapters. We're building something we hope becomes the definitive editorial publication for mother-daughter travel.

We'd love your help shaping it.

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What this is

Help build the publication.
Not just read it.

Founding Circle members are the small group of readers who were here before this became what it's going to be. That's worth something — to us, and eventually to the publication's story.

This isn't a newsletter signup. It's an invitation to be part of something from the beginning.

Preview new destinations before they're published
Read new destination guides a week before they go live. Your feedback shapes what gets added or changed.
Help test new planning tools
Early access to the trip planner, packing tool, and anything else we build — before it's ready for everyone.
Vote on where we go next
Destinations in progress: Marfa, Porto, Copenhagen, The Berkshires. Founding Circle members influence which ones we prioritize.
Occasional behind-the-scenes notes from Kate
What we're working on. What we almost published. What didn't make the cut. The editorial thinking behind the guide.
Exclusive content and launch surprises
Things we make for Founding Circle members that don't go anywhere else.
A permanent place in the first chapter
Founding members are acknowledged in the publication. You were here before everyone else. That's part of the record.
A note from Kate

"Every publication has a founding readership — the people who found it before it was easy to find, read it before anyone was talking about it, and believed in what it was trying to do before it had proved anything.

I want to know who those people are. And I want them to know each other."

Kate Barnwell
Kate Barnwell
Founder & Editor
From the circle

Trips members recommend.

Stowe, Vermont
Mother & daughter · First trip together as adults
What made it work?
"We had no agenda and no plan, which turned out to be exactly right. We walked the rec path twice, ate at the same restaurant two nights in a row because we liked it so much, and spent one entire afternoon doing nothing at the inn. It was the most time we'd spent together in five years."
What would you tell someone planning the same trip?
"Book Hen of the Wood early. Don't over-plan the days. And bring better walking shoes than you think you need."
More recommendations coming.

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Occasional notes
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New destinations and planning guides when they're ready. Personal observations when something is worth saying. Never on a schedule.