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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.

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Michelle riding on Artur’s back, both laughing, under a cherry tree in blossom

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 and write only about places we’ve actually been — every guide is dated, so you know what’s still true.

31
countries slept in
5
continents
2022
on the road since

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The atlas

31 countries on 5 continents

2 guides to read · 29 countries with the guide still to come

Every destination

Everywhere

31 countries

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  • 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
  • Brazil14
  • Colombia
  • Paraguay
  • Peru
  • Egypt
  • South Africa

Latest field notes

Fresh from the road.

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.