 Starting his career as a lawyer, along with his wife Martha and her brother Sidney Robinson, he co-founded Butterfield & Robinson  in 1966, to offer biking trips for students around Europe.Today, it is a luxury active travel company with about 100 biking, walking, and boating trips in more than two dozen countries.Butterfield & Robinson grew to become one of the best-known specialty travel companies in North America and, by 2009, employed 40 full-time staff and 150 guides.