Journal
Dispatches from the road less traveled.
Who we are
July 2026
We moved to Krakow in 2017 on a dream. We learned enough of the Polish language to have real conversations and navigate the country. We met priests who opened doors other tourists never see. We cooked in kitchens and ate food with new friends. We walked in the footsteps of some of the world’s greatest teachers. We stood at the graves of people whose names most Americans can’t pronounce, and we learned why those names matter. Peregrine House & Co. is what we built from all of that. We are not a tour company, we are a formation-through-travel company. At a time when technology erodes what it means to be a human person, we are using travel to look at who we are, what we are made for, and where we are going. Poland as a teacher deepened our experience of this. We also learned what it means to come home changed. This endeavor is where we want to share this with others.
On the Difference Between Visiting and Being Received
July 2025
There is a kind of travel organized around acquisition. You see the thing, you photograph the thing, you move to the next thing. The self that travels comes home essentially unchanged, only more full of opinions about airport lounges. Formation travel is organized around reception. You go to receive something. Maybe a question you couldn't have been asked at home, a saint whose life reframes something you thought you already understood, a place that asks something of you and waits. This is harder than it sounds. Most of us, most of the time, are tourists even when we think we're pilgrims. We want to be moved without being disrupted. Poland is not interested in that arrangement. It has been through too much. You go with open hands, or you miss it.
On Why We Chose Poland
July 2025
People usually ask: why Poland, specifically? Why not Rome, or the Holy Land, or the Camino. The honest answer is that we lived there for three years, and it changed us in ways we're still working and living out. But the better answer is this: Poland is a country that has been asked, repeatedly and at enormous cost, to choose between survival and integrity. It has chosen integrity- imperfectly, humanly, and many times magnificently, more times than any history book adequately captures. The saints we encountered here: Kolbe, Popiełuszko, Faustina, John Paul II, are not exceptional people who lived in exceptional times. They are ordinary people who faced ordinary temptations to look away, to comply, to keep their heads down. And they didn't. That story is not a Polish story. It is a human story. And it is as alive today as it was in 1941, or 1984.
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