About Us
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What's in a name? 'Porta Via' is Italian for "take away" or "carry off" - it's an often used phrase when asking for espresso or food to-go, a request (learned the hard way) that will often result in an eye-roll as it's antithetical to la dolce vita!
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This website is a long over-due passion project encouraged by many friends and family. We are a family of 3, soon to be 4, global travelers who have had the immense privilege of exploring many regions of the world, and with the desire to explore many more. Whether you're looking to move to Rome, take a hot-air balloon over the Masai Mara, or simply looking to avoid eye-rolls from locals, contained within this site are tips, thoughts, and strategies we wish we had when booking and going on trips, we welcome you along for the journey!
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"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad