Wild Air Travel curates itineraries to destinations around the globe to our favorite destinations. Our itineraries range from food and wine-focused to adventure-focused but are all bespoke experiences. We are female-run and headquartered in Asheville, NC. We also offer individual and group customized itineraries to all seven continents.
Our Mission
Wild Air Travel LLC offers experiences that immerse travelers in the destination; To enrich and expand their understanding of different cultures and destinations around the globe. Our purpose is to offer curated experiences in both popular and off-the-beaten-path locations. We are intentionally inclusive and people from all walks of life are welcome on any of our tours.
“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our Founders
Ashley Peterson is obsessed with all things travel and is most at home navigating herself through foreign cities solo. She has visited 98 countries on six continents from Albania to Vietnam over the past 12 years. Ashley is a wizard at organizing and planning itineraries and her travel planning skills are only rivaled by her ability to find cheap business class flights. She also runs Ashley Gets Around, the only woman owned premium flight deal subscription service. You can also follow along on her adventures on Instagram.
Her favorite experiences include trekking to the mountain gorillas in Uganda, hiking to a live volcano in Iceland, any day spent at Disney, and any meals eaten anywhere in South East Asia. Her favorite destinations are usually the last place she visited.
Blair Meeks discovered her passion for adventure travel after her very first solo trip to Mt. Everest Base Camp in Nepal. After spending two weeks in the Himalayas, she fell in love with Nepal and combining two of her biggest passions, hiking and travel. Blair enjoyed Nepal so much that she returned less than a year later to trek the Annapurna Circuit. She planned and customized this trek herself. Blair also has experience planning hikes and treks in some of the most popular U.S. National Parks such as, Glacier National Park and Zion National Park, as well as extensive hiking experience in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Blair is passionate about the intersection of mental health and adventure travel after discovering how much of a positive impact it has had in her own life; likewise she loves helping others to discover how adventure travel can impact their lives.
Our Why
We started Wild Air Travel because we noticed that the kind of tours we wanted to do as travelers did not exist on the market. Small groups going to unique destinations with a luxurious feel, while still having copious amounts of adventure. We focus on small groups with an average size of 10 guests. Each tour is hosted by Ashley and/or Blair and uses local guides in each of the countries we visit. We prioritize women guides and women owned companies. We design all of our trips individually with an aim to include experiences you wouldn’t receive on a typical tour while still hitting all of those bucket list items. We are frequent solo travelers so we designed all of our tours with this in mind.