The eye behind the lens
Most of what you see here starts with Linda — motherhood, beauty, wellness, and the routines that hold a home together. If a product earns a mention, it's because it survived her actual life, not a press kit.
Our Family
We're Linda, Collin and Amelia.
A South Florida family with Vietnamese, Irish and Italian roots and one proudly American home — sharing love, parenthood and the little moments in between. This page is the long version of hello.
How this started
First came the trips. Then came everything else.
This page began as a travel account — the places we went, honestly told. Then Amelia arrived, and the camera roll changed.
The trips didn't stop; they got smaller, slower and better. And the ordinary days in between — the pool floats, the tiny outfits, the date nights we still keep — turned out to be the story people cared about most. Our most-watched reel isn't a destination at all. It's Amelia, living her best life in a pool float. So we stopped pretending this was a travel page and let it be what it already was: a family one.
If you found us as @exploretravelfinds — that's still us. Same family, bigger story.
Irish · Italian · Vietnamese · American
Three heritages. One American family.
The shamrock, the Colosseum and the lotus from our family emblem — three lines that meet under one star. Amelia gets all of it: the recipes, the holidays, the long tables, and a country we love that lets them all belong.
Irish
the shamrock
Italian
the Colosseum
Vietnamese
the lotus
American
the star
The three of us
One family, three characters.
The other half of the story
Cusano is Collin's name — the Italian thread on our emblem. He's the reason the love-and-partnership side of this page is real: the date nights that still happen, the trips quietly planned, the showing up. Family accounts often leave the dad out of frame. Ours doesn't.
Our greatest adventure yet
She headlines the milestones, the pool floats and the tiny outfits. One thing you'll notice: we share Amelia by her first name only, and the private things — her routine, her whereabouts — stay private. That's a promise, not a policy.
Love & partnership
The part most family pages leave out.
Before Amelia there was a wedding, a hundred ordinary Tuesdays, and a marriage we work at on purpose.
Becoming parents didn't shrink that — it made it the point. We still plan date nights. We still make the thoughtful gesture. We photograph the anniversary with the same care as the milestone, because the love story is the family story. That's the part of this page we're proudest of, and the part you'll see most other places skip.
The travel thread
Travel stayed. It just grew up with us.
The cliffside sunsets are real — and so is the diaper bag.
These days travel means family getaways, hotels that genuinely welcome a baby, couples' trips when the grandparents win, and a running list of places we keep walking as a family. Vietnam is family — Saigon, Da Nang, Hoi An. Thailand was the next country on that same winter.
What you can expect
Honest, or not at all.
We only recommend what we actually use. When something didn't work for us, we say so — kindly. And when a post is a partnership, here or on Instagram, it's always marked #ad. Clearly, every time. That honesty is why people listen when we do recommend something, and we're not trading it for anything.
Come be part of the little moments.
Follow along on Instagram, or say hello — we read every note.