Meet The Founders
Brittany and Nick created TPC from a mutual belief that connection grows through shared experiences. Passionate about travel, playfulness, adventure, and connection, they built TPC to help people step outside their routines, explore the world, stay active, and build meaningful friendships through unforgettable experiences.
OUR STORY
TPC actually started as Travel Pickleball Club. We created it to bring people together from around the globe through a social and competitive game such as pickleball, but along the way, we discovered something bigger. The real magic wasn’t just happening on the court, it was in the friendships, laughter, shared experiences, and sense of community being built. We felt that many people were missing out because they had the belief that they couldn’t experience our trips if they weren’t an avid pickleball player.
That realization inspired us to grow into something more. Today, TPC is expanding beyond pickleball to create experiences for anyone looking to travel, connect, stay active, and embrace adventure. While our roots will always matter, our vision is bigger than a sport, it’s about creating a community where people feel inspired to explore, belong, and find their childlike sense of wander and playfulness.
Our Vision
From the destinations we’ve explored to the ones still ahead, every trip is designed with connection, play, and adventure at its core. As we grow, so will the experiences we offer, expanding beyond pickleball into a variety of active and social group travel experiences while staying true to who we are.
Expect more than just a vacation. Think team challenges, playful competition, Survivor-style adventures, shared experiences, villas, resorts, and large homes that turn strangers into friends and friends into family, keeping the connection going long after the day ends. Wherever we go next, our goal remains the same: travel with purpose, stay active, and create a community that feels like home.
Where we’ve been…
Gatlinburg, TN
Our inaugural pickleball trip took place in Gatlinburg, Tennessee in October of 2023. We stayed in a nice log cabin with a hot tub, cooked up meals for our VIP guests, played some pickleball in the pouring rain, hiked to some not so falling waterfalls, went go-karting, exploring and played some cards in the evening together. We introduced team games, riddles, and challenges throughout the trip to add some extra fun.
St. George, UT
May of 2024, we hosted three back to back groups in St. George, Utah offering several mornings of pickleball at Little Valley Complex, hiking Angel’s Landing in Zion National Park, cold plunging in the Virgin River, making a pit stop at In-N-Out Burger after a long hike through Snow Canyon State Park, swimming, cliff-jumping, tubing, and wake-boarding at Sand Hollow State Park. Had cookouts at the house, played cards, and relaxed in the hot tub after full days of adventure. Our games and challenges got a little more intricate with connect four and sudoku pickleball, check point challenges with a lockbox throughout our hike through Snow Canyon. The final challenge at the farewell party had everyone’s mind spinning, but winners were determined and an ice cream social was in play while we watched a highlight video of our trip together in the living room before everyone packed up to head home.
Sedona, AZ
Sedona, Arizona was a must for us since it is one of our personal most favorite places to visit in America. We stayed together in the heart of Sedona in a mansion with a rooftop 15 person hot tub that had sunset views to die for. We played pickleball with the red rocks as our backdrop, hiked Bell rock, Cathedral rock, cliff jumped at Grasshopper Point, and even found our way to Subway Cave. Games, challenges and riddles were of course included during our time together at the house and on our adventures.
Nuevo Vallarta, MX
We slowed things down a bit in Nuevo Vallarta, Mexico at the Marival Residences All-Inclusive Resort. Gourmet food, brand new pickleball courts, beach charades, soaking in the infinity pool, group workouts, rooftop dinners and an evening adventure to Rhythm of the Nights.
Tamarindo, Costa Rica
In April of 2025, we hosted our first group in Tamarindo, Costa Rica. We had a group of 35 people and did everything from surf lessons with surfing, ATVing to secluded beaches and hideaways, beach games, a group workout, hiking to a waterfall, cliff jumping into the crystal blue water, white water tubing, mud baths, saunas, hot springs, pickleball, catamaran sunset cruise with snorkeling, a jump deck, waterslide, open bar, and private chefs. We ended it with a color party, a farewell ice cream social and our highlight video presentation. It was the craziest adventure we will never forget!
St. George, UT - Year 2
This time in St. George we took a recovery group from Colorado. We truly enjoyed the opportunity to share some peak life experiences with individuals that didn’t take one second of it for granted. Not only a true testimony of how community can make a difference in people’s lives, but showing that kindness, love and adventure can genuinely change lives. Our itinerary was similar to the first go around in St. George with a few fun extra curricular activities thrown in there customized to the group.
Lake Tahoe, NV/CA
August of 2025, we led a group around the stunning Lake Tahoe, literally. We stopped at the pickleball courts, popular viewpoints, did some shopping, hiking, sight seeing, watched the sunset, did some bike riding in pouring down rain, visited state parks, had a pizza party with team challenges/games at the house, that we made up on the fly due to the rain, and had way more fun than we ever expected.
Tamarindo, Costa Rica - Year 2
April of 2026, we ran it back to Tamarindo, Costa Rica with 34 more people, and it still holds true as our favorite trip we offer yet. We had a crew that loved to groove to some good tunes, was all over the board with pickleball, went all in on the challenges as a team, and just meshed like we’ve never seen a group from all over do before. The Pink team took the gold again for the second year in a row. Same Itinerary, the most incredible experiences, and a group that truly exemplified everything we stand for. Should we quit while we are ahead… or run it back again for a third year in a row? We’ll roll the dice on this one. Join us in April of 2027 for 6 days full of adventure, laughter, fun and once in lifetime type experiences!
Where we’re going…
We are not playing around in 2026 and 2027 with the expansion of TPC. We are finishing the year at the Silver Lake Sand Dunes, Michigan, Phuket, Thailand, Ubud, Bali, and Steamboat Springs, Colorado. We’ll kick start 2027 with an all-inclusive getaway in Riviera Maya, Mexico at the Grand Palladium Katenah in February. Running it back for a third year in March/April to Tamarindo, Costa Rica. We’ll be celebrating all our mamas for Mother’s Day in May at the Pickleball Penthouse in St. George, UT. We’ll explore the Pacific Northwest before we hop on an Alaskan Holland America Cruise in August out of Vancouver, and a couple months later we’ll take as many past attendees and new friends as we can to La Fortuna, Costa Rica to finish out the year with a bang!
In between our trips, we’ll be hosting pop up events right here in Clearwater/St.Pete, Florida or in Ohio and Michigan, where we grew up. Looking forward to expanding our community and offering experiences near and far to check off some bucket list items together!