Why just join a travel program when you can plan one?

Welcome to Sunstone Travels

We specialize in helping teens plan exciting trips while building essential life skills. With our expert guidance, your teen will explore the world confidently and develop time management, decision-making, and problem-solving abilities. Start planning a transformative trip today!

Research

Sunstone Travels specializes in allowing teens to develop their own planning strategies while helping to forge better executive functioning skills. A small group meets for 6 weeks to research the cities of Barcelona and Valencia and all that they have to offer while exploring the various aspects of travel planning. In essence, members will become travel agents contributing to the design of their own program.

Collaborate

Sunstone Travels supports collaborative teams so they can achieve their goals of planning and executing full days of international travel.

During the 6-week course, daily logistics will be mapped out by the group members: meals, activities, travel arrangements, scheduling, and local outreach.

Lead

The cornerstone of Sunstone Travels is to help build high-level executive functioning skills by engaging each participant in leadership, organization, research, budgeting, scheduling, and time management. The girls will hone skills needed to execute these concepts, allowing them to take ownership of their adventures and earn personal accountability.

OUR STORY

Finding Inspiration From Students

Sunstone Travels was born from a love of travel and the desire to bring an accessible travel program to teens who wanted to be more than just a participant in one. Allison Leale, the founder, has worked with dozens of teenagers and she wanted to design a program to show the relevance and importance of building executive functioning skills. She thought the best way to do this would be to combine her three passions in life: teaching, traveling, and planning. After launching a successful tutoring business, she found herself helping a growing a number of teens forge better executive functioning skills. Allison believed that utilizing a class setting to plan and execute a trip abroad would serve as an exciting, motivating, and unique platform for teenagers to find success.

ABOUT US

Why Sunstone Travels?

Sunstone Travels specializes in providing teen travel planning strategies while building executive functioning skills before setting out on a trip abroad to Barcelona and Valencia, Spain. Our team of experts is dedicated to helping teenagers develop essential life skills while exploring the world in a safe and meaningful way. We understand that traveling as a teenager can be daunting, which is why we offer customized travel planning services that cater to their unique needs and interests. Our executive functioning course helps teens develop skills needed to succeed in school, work, and life. From time management and organization, to decision-making and problem-solving, we've got your teen covered. Reach out today to learn more about how we can help your daughters achieve their goals.

Did You Know?

Sunstone is a gemstone believed to promote leadership, inspire enjoyment of life, alleviate stress, and build self-worth and confidence. It encourages independence and helps build leadership roles by aiding organizational skills. First discovered by the Vikings in Norway and utilized as a compass to help lead travelers to calmer waters, the gem gets its power from the sun while allowing one to keep a piece of endless summer close by.

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UPCOMING TRIPS

Summer 2025
Barcelona and Valencia

Our team put in an extensive amount of research over three summers of travel to Spain to build Sunstone Travels into a well-rounded teen travel planning program. Engagement with community service organizations, collaborations with local artisans, trials with all aspects of travel (activities, excursions, restaurants, transportation, housing, and local businesses) were key to building a successful foundation.

Now it’s up to the girls to fill in the blanks!

Once a Sunstone Traveler, Always a Sunstone Traveler

With us, it’s more than just one summer, it’s a sisterhood. At Sunstone Travels, participants become part of our family and have the opportunity to become future volunteers, interns and employees.