How a woman who's visited over 50 countries built a luxury travel business from scratch

Courtesy of Luxe Adventure Traveler

In 2009, Jennifer Dombrowski moved to Italy.

She had been living and working in Arizona when her husband got transferred through his military job to a small town in Northern Italy. She asked her employer if she could continue her work as a social media strategist for a university for a six-month trial period from her new home near Venice.

"That six-month trial period turned into six years," she told Business Insider.

Today, Dombrowski, 36, and Tim Davis, 35, are living in Bordeaux, France, building their own luxury travel business, Luxe Adventure Traveler. They've visited more than 50 countries on four continents.

Below, Dombrowski told Business Insider how she came to start her own business, what it's like living and working thousands of miles from home, and what everyone gets wrong about luxury travel.

Dombrowski launched a hobby blog to keep friends and family in the loop almost immediately after arriving in Italy.

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 In the Dead Sea, Jordan.

"The first weekend we had free, we were like, 'What are we going to do? Hey, let's go travel — Slovenia is an hour away, and Croatia another hour. We visited three countries in one weekend, so let’s start blogging about it," she said.

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 In Puglia, Italy.

With Dombrowski keeping her US-based job with regular hours, and Davis holding a military job, they weren't able to indulge every travel whim. Instead, they sat down with their calendars and highlighted the limited times they could take off and travel together.

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 In the Bahamas.