For foodies, their cohorts, oenophiles, walkers, and joggers, few things compare to spending a week traversing French canals. Imagine not a smooth gliding hotel, but instead, think of a barge cruise with French Country Waterways as akin to enjoying the utterly delightful navigable home of cherished relatives…

Margie Lenau’s granddaughter Kaitlyn was in kindergarten when she announced she wanted to take over the family business. The Disney app would come on TV, and she would say “Grandma, grandma, look, it’s your work!”

In middle school, she was involved in a program that taught children about business. She spent a few summers there studying marketing, building marketing plans and budgets to support them. In college, she majored in business and marketing.

“Travel agencies are really just big marketing companies,” Lenau says. “I wish I had majored in…