WHIDBEY ISLAND, WA
A COZY GATHERING FOR WOMEN WITHOUT CHILDREN IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST
January 2027 — dates coming soon!
Three Days on the Pacific Northwest Coast where the shape of your life is the whole point — and it’s being celebrated.
A small-group winter gathering for women without children, built around the pleasures of the season: fireside conversations, farm-to-table meals, outdoor sauna sessions, making something by hand, and the luxury of nowhere you need to rush off to next.
We'll be based at a historic waterfront property that has welcomed guests since 1907. Rustic cabins with wood-burning fireplaces, shared outdoor spaces, water views, and the kind of atmosphere that invites you to step back to a simpler time.
6–8 Women · 3 Days | 2 Nights · All-Inclusive
EXPERIENCE HIGHLIGHTS A LOOK AT WHAT’S IN STORE
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Captain Whidbey Inn
FIRESIDE LOUNGE
Our home base for the weekend, a 100-year old lodge nestled in Penn’s Cove with wood-burning fireplaces and plenty of cozy nooks that invite lingering longer.
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Around the Table
SEASONAL PACIFIC NORTHWEST DINNING
Beautiful meals are at the center of the weekend, from seasonal dinners at some of the island’s best kitchens to locally inspired meals overlooking the water.
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Candle-making Workshop
HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE
An afternoon spent creating botanical taper candles, using pressed flowers and greenery to make something sparkly to get you through the winter season.
WHAT’S INCLUDED
✔ Pre-trip virtual gathering so you can meet the women you'll be traveling with
✔ 2-night stay at a historic waterfront inn with a private room
✔ Access to outdoor wood-fired sauna and wellness studio
✔ A guided signature experience inspired by the island's food, landscape, or natural environment
✔ Hands on botanical candle-making workshop at a local farm served after a thoughtfully prepared 3 course meal
✔ Shared family-style meals featuring locally sourced ingredients and Pacific Northwest influences
✔Evening bonfire under the stars or around the fireplace
✔ Space for rest, reflection, shoreline walks, and quiet moments in between
✔ Ground transportation to and from downtown Seattle and between activities
✔ Thoughtful facilitation and small-group connection throughout
TESTIMONIALS
TESTIMONIALS
WHAT TRAVELERS HAVE TO SAY
WELCOME, I’M ERIN
a place women’s stories are reflected
Our Sister•Ship began with a longing to see more spaces where women living without children, could see their stories reflected and celebrated.
As a therapist and someone who finds renewal through the novelty of new places, I chose travel because it offers what daily life often cannot. It creates space to set down obligations, step outside routine, and share meaningful experiences. Immersive travel provides the ideal conditions for friendship to grow - not through forced conversation, but through shared discovery, curiosity, and doing life side-by-side.
I chose the name Our Sister•Ship with the metaphor of a vessel in mind — a space capable of holding the many different stories women carry about living without children. Some arrive here by choice, others through circumstances they never imagined, and many somewhere in between. What matters most is that we are traveling together.
This is the space I wish had existed.
HOW IT WORKS
Fill out a brief form to express you’re interest and share more about yourself.
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Share Your
Interest
We’ll schedule a short 1:1 call to answer questions, share more about the experience, and see if it feels like the right fit.
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Let’s
Connect
If it feels aligned, you’ll be invited to place your deposit and officially join in.
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Save Your
Spot
Before departure, the group meets virtually to say hello so nobody arrives as strangers and by the time you arrive, it feels like a continuation not a starting point.
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Meet Before
We Go
INVESTMENT — WHAT’S INCLUDED
all-inclusive including boutique lodging, meals, activities and transportation
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Garden or Cove facing queen bed with shared bath in Captain Whidbey’s Historic lodge
What’s included:✓2 nights lodging
✓All group meals (welcome picnic, 2 dinners, 2 brunches)
✓Bioluminescent kayak tour
✓Signature farm tour or experience
✓Ground transportation from ferry and between activities
✓Bonfire & lawn games
✓Access to property amenities including cedar sauna, wellness studio, paddle boats and bikes
Pay in full or over 3 monthly installments following your deposit. All installment payments are billed prior to the trip departure date.
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Lodge Cove or Lagoon king with shared bath. More room to spread out, elevated views.
What’s included:✓2 nights lodging
✓All group meals (welcome picnic, 2 dinners, 2 brunches)
✓Bioluminescent kayak tour
✓Signature farm tour or experience
✓Ground transportation from ferry and between activities
✓Bonfire & lawn games
✓Access to property amenities including cedar sauna, wellness studio, paddle boats and bikes
Pay in full or over 3 monthly installments following your deposit. All installment payments are billed prior to the trip departure date.
WHAT WOMEN MOST COMMONLY ASK
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Trips are led by Erin Hartley, founder of Our Sister•Ship—not as a tour guide, but as a fellow traveler and intentional space-holder.
Erin coordinates the details, nurtures group connection, and stewards the overall experience but these experiences are about co-creating something meaningful with the energy each woman brings.
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No. These trips are not therapy and they are not grief-focused spaces.
These experiences bring together women who often move through the world without many opportunities to meet others whose lives look similar to their own. What we've found is that real friendship rarely begins with a conversation — it begins with a shared experience. Something new, something that asks a little something of you, something that creates a natural moment of did you just see that? or I can't believe we did that. That is the architecture of every Our Sister•Ship trip. Stunning destinations, meaningful activities, and the kind of side-by-side experience that creates connection before anyone has to try.
What happens around the dinner table after a day like that can be meaningful, and sometimes even surprising. But any healing that happens is a byproduct of belonging — not the agenda.
Therapy is designed to help people understand and heal themselves. Our Sister•Ship is designed to help women find each other.
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This is the question most women carry before they say yes — and it's a fair one. Every Our Sister•Ship experience is designed by a licensed therapist who understands what actually allows real connection to develop between people. Juicy itineraries, beautiful destinations, good food, and in the company of women who are living something close to what you're living.
And yet the women who leave most changed tend to have one thing in common: they came open.
Open to new people, new experiences, and the possibility that something real might happen if they let it. They took the risk of showing up fully, even when it felt uncertain. If that sounds like you, you're exactly who this trip is for. -
A non-refundable deposit is required to reserve your spot on the trip. Because our trips are small-group experiences this helps us plan accordingly and ensure the right group size. Each trip will have advertised the maximum group size.
Remaining payments are fully refundable up to 45 days before travel. After that point, we begin finalizing group bookings.
CAN’T MAKE THIS ONE?
Our trips are small for a reason. If you can’t make this one, but would like to be the first to know when new trips are offered, drop a note below or just say hi.
