Four months across China, dated and verified
The cities we'd go back to, the routes we'd repeat, and the ones we'd skip.
We are The Venturesomes!
In 2022 we sold the apartment, packed two backpacks, and left. This blog is the field notebook we wished existed when we started: dated, verified, written for a friend, not for the algorithm.
Start with China
Your next adventure.
About us
Two travelers, one journal.
We’re Artur, n. engineer turned marketer, and Michelle, n. storyteller. We left the script in 2022 and started writing down what we found.
Artur shoots most of the photographs and breaks most of the equipment. Michelle keeps the notes that turn into these entries — and paints small watercolors of the places we love most.
We travel slowly. We pay for our own rooms. We write what we saw, and we date everything, because the world changes faster than we can keep up with.
- 31
- countries slept in
- 5
- continents
- 2022
- on the road since
The atlas
31 countries on 5 continents
1 guide to read · 30 countries with the guide still to come
Everywhere
31 countries
1 guide written. Point at a country to see what is there.Tap a country to see what is there.
- Asia11 countries · 1 guide
- Europe8 countries
- North America5 countries
- South America5 countries
- Africa2 countries
- China1
- Hong Kong
- Japan
- Malaysia
- Philippines
- Singapore
- South Korea
- Sri Lanka
- Taiwan
- Thailand
- Vietnam
- Albania
- France
- Germany
- Italy
- Montenegro
- North Macedonia
- Portugal
- Spain
- El Salvador
- Guatemala
- Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Argentina
- Brazil
- Colombia
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Egypt
- South Africa
How we travel
Slowly, and with our eyes open.
Slow
Weeks in a place, not days — long enough to know which corner café is actually the good one.
First-hand
We only write about places we have been ourselves — and we date everything, because things change.
Through our lens
The photos are ours, shot on the road — the views, the food, and the occasional disaster.
Practical
Real itineraries, real prices, honest tips — written the way we would tell a friend planning the same trip.