Our Story

OYLE’s beautiful story starts out as organic as they come.

It is truly a story about a CHOSEN FAMILY, the LOVE FOR TRAVEL and aligning DREAMS. 

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Micayla and Tyler were born into the same given family, as cousins, yet born 10 years apart. They were not especially close growing up, yet their deep personal, chosen family relationship truly started to blossom when, at age 16, Micayla visited Tyler in Honolulu, HI where he was living at the time.  

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Britt was living in Honolulu at the same time as Tyler and they met while working at the same restaurant. They learned quickly that they were both from Minnesota, and while that connected them, it was not what bonded them. They both spent the majority of their 20’s in Hawai’i, where they grew up together, learned from and supported one another, while creating a lifelong friendship and family dynamic. Britt ended up moving back to Minnesota while Tyler moved to Las Vegas and ultimately ended up in Florida a year after. Even with physical distance between them, they continued to grow their relationship beginning with planning domestic trips to visit one another on adventures. This mutual love of travel grew into Tyler visiting Britt in Puerto Rico in 2014, where she stayed for a month and then they embarked on a trip to Colombia together in 2015, where Tyler showed her the ways of traveling on a budget, staying at hostels, using public transportation and really embracing the locals and the culture outside of the common “touristy” perspective. At that point, Tyler had been traveling for several years through the military and his own solo travels around the world. 

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After this remarkable endeavor, Tyler and Britt planned a trip to Egypt in 2016, in which Micayla was then invited to join. Britt and Micayla had only met once, briefly, and this adventure bonded them as chosen family for life as well. 

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During this time, Stephon and Tyler had already met and were starting a flourishing, romantic partnership of their own. Their travels together across Europe in 2017 bonded them on a much deeper level, recognizing common passions for photography, architecture and most of all, travel. As their bond deepened, Stephon became part of our chosen family and thus began the continuation of our yearly family vacations. The first of which was a cabin trip in 2018 to New Hampshire with a group of twelve mutual friends, which in turn, led to a second gigantic group trip to the island of Vieques in Puerto Rico in 2019. (Let’s talk about group travel!! You need help, we got answers!)

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In March of 2020, we embarked on a beautiful, yet intense trip to Switzerland and Portugal, right in the midst of the spread of Coronavirus. Whereas we ended up getting stuck in Portugal and had to come together to navigate what that looked like to get back to America. We then took on traveling to Costa Rica in March of 2021 where we navigated traveling amongst a pandemic (Lots of advice to share about that!!) and an OLYE camping trip to Florida’s beautiful, natural springs in the summer of 2021. Our last big family trip was back to the islands where we celebrated the union of Stephon and Tyler with twenty five family and friends on the Big Island of Hawai’i, while making new memories on the island of Oahu. (Lots of advice on how to plan a trip for a very large group!) 

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It continues to be an unspoken agenda, that the four of us would all travel together, internationally, once a year, and domestically together in between. We have made all our own travel plans and have learned and grown so much from each place we have had the opportunity to explore. Our next international trip is to visit Indonesia in celebration of Britt’s 40th birthday and our dreams remain endless of all the places we seek to visit next.  

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The way OLYE Travel came to be, as we were sitting at a restaurant in Manuel Antonio, also known as Quepos, in Costa Rica and reminiscing about our adventures and having such deep gratitude for how the universe has aligned to make all these dreams become a reality for us. We got the notion of wanting to help others create their reality and showing people that through our experiences made possible, so can theirs. Thus why the name “Our Lens, Your Eyes” came to fruition. Our desire is not to create a trip of our dreams for our clients, but in order to create the dreams in their eyes, via the knowledge from our lenses.