About our Founder
ILDIKO BAYER expresses her boundless enthusiasm for travel in the soft accent of her birthplace, Hungary. She grew up exploring the romantic medieval towns and castle ruins along the Danube but her free spirit and creativity were at odds with the oppressive Communist and Socialist regimes of her youth. Like many others, when the opportunity presented itself she took a one-way ticket out – except that she left on foot, crossing two borders with the help of a topographical map, until she reached the safety of Austria.
This was the start of Ildiko’s multi-cultural, multi-lingual journey that took her to Germany, France, Western Canada and ultimately the United States, where she now resides in Southern California.
