Our Story

Priscilla Nzessi

Founder, Moments of Sonder Travel
"I built this agency so that others could find themselves in the stream of a life well-travelled."
25+
Countries
20+
Trips a year
15+
Years traveling
Priscilla, the Traveler

A life shaped by the road

Priscilla's belief that travel is one of the best ways to experience life began in childhood, in one of her earliest memories: long drives across France and California with her family, exploring new places on summer trips and weekends.

Through her school years and early career that instinct deepened, branching into solo travel and travel with friends, and the good fortune of seeing much of the world in nearly every way there is. She has backpacked, chartered, camped, cruised, and taken slow trains across whole countries.

The Founding

Why Sonder

In 2024, Priscilla turned that lifetime of travel into an agency built to help others see the world with the same wonder, and created Moments of Sonder.

The name was deliberate. Sonder is the realization that every person you pass has a life as vivid and complex as your own. It is the moment you stop moving through the world as a spectator and start seeing it as a place full of extraordinary stories, each as complete as yours. Helping people have those moments is the reason this agency exists.

A Philosophy of Travel

Travel is not escape.
It is encounter.

The world is sacred

Every coast and culture is worth encountering with open eyes, and at its finest.

Travel reveals you

Standing at the edge of a canyon or sharing a meal far from home teaches what nothing else can.

Connection is the point

The conversation on a long train ride, the people you love beside you. That is the whole thing.

"The earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof."
Psalm 24:1

Priscilla's Christian faith is not separate from her work; it is the reason for it. She believes the world was made to be encountered with awe, and that a person who has stood before something extraordinary comes home more grateful and more present. Every journey she designs is shaped by that conviction.

See the world with someone who loves it.

Tell us where you want to go and what you need the journey to be. We will take it from there.

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