Founder Chrissie Kremer saw the need for a shared itinerary site after planning numerous multi-family overseas summer adventures. For these annual trips, as well as for trips in between, she spent hours upon hours researching sites, blogs, articles, social media, travel books and more. Each decision, whether big (what countries are best to visit in August with active teenagers), small (where are the best places to spend the night on a roadtrip to Yellowstone) or offbeat (how to best visit the townships in South Africa or where to spend the night on a small Indonesian island that uses only donkeys for transportation) needed timely research. Chrissie felt she was reinventing the wheel given that many others had preceded her to these locations, and wished she could see what trips others had taken and share their experiences. She put her own itineraries online for easier access to friends who were requesting them but knew that JamboGuides needed to expand to include others’ travels as well as her own, allowing a broad community of travelers access to a variety of real trip itineraries to ease the pain of travel planning. JamboGuides is now the site she always dreamed of having access to herself.