"How do you live?" asked the man with the official-looking neon vest. We were standing in the ticketing area of Paris' Charles de Gaulle Airport, my friend Johnica and I. Our French is limited to Parlez-vous anglais? and Oui, oui!

Obviously, we'd heard the man wrong. The question of how one lives is a bit invasive, when you think about it. It's akin to asking a liberal arts major, "What is your purpose in life?" -- a question some contemplate in the comfort of their own bathtubs, but never at baggage claim. "You mean where do I live, right?" I asked, with my mouth already fixed to answer, "Washington. You know, near Obama!"

"No, no, no. How do you live?" he repeated, insistent on his word choice, despite my corrections to the contrary. With a weathered DVF carry-on purchased from Filene's slung over my shoulder, I wanted to say, "On a budget." But we were in Paris, after all. Because we wanted to see the Jean-Michel Basquiat retrospective at the Musée d'Art Moderne.

This was all Johnica's idea. My good friend Ms. Johnica Reed from Fort Worth, Texas, is a self-described "travel tastemaker." She'd suggested that we spend a long weekend traveling slow in the City of Light. Johnica's career orbits around one seemingly simple concept: living well. So when the first Parisian we met asked, "How do you live?" she just smiled and asked where the taxis were.

Some people are genuinely confused by the concept of Johnica's living. Her Twitter location? "On a plane." Her G-chat status? "I can change your life in one flight." She "curates experiences" for Jetsetter.com (the luxury-travel arm of the designer-sample-sale site GiltGroupe.com) as well as American Airline's Black Atlas and Wyndham Hotels' Women on Their Way websites.

In an age during which most people measure their success by how much plastic crap they have stuffed in a closet, Johnica, who just launched her own digital-consultancy firm that focuses on high-end travel clients, can fit two weeks' worth of living in a Tumi carry-on. The following is a snippet of Johnica's swanky outlook on growing up by getting out.

So, seriously, how do you live?

I live on a plane. I live in the world. I don't identify with a home, per se. I'm most comfortable when I'm in a foreign land. And I live well with the best of everything. The best of food, the best hotels, the best people and the best experiences.