About the Venturesomes

Artur & Michelle — and how this got started.

In 2022 we sold the apartment, packed two backpacks, and left.

Artur and Michelle in leather jackets on the path below Osaka Castle, the stone rampart and the castle’s lower roofs behind them — Osaka Castle, April 2025.

We are Artur (a Brazilian engineer who got bored of engineering) and Michelle (a German storyteller who got bored of one country).

Four years later, we have not stopped. We travel slowly — usually three to six weeks in one place, sometimes longer. We do not write about anywhere we have not personally been.

This blog is the field notebook we wished existed when we started: dated, verified, written for a friend, not for the algorithm.

31: countries slept in
5: continents
2022: on the road since

The Venturesomes is published by AM MEDIA LLC, a company Artur and Michelle own together.

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.