About Traveloma

We've been to Europe fifteen times now — and we're still not done with it. Paris rewards you differently every visit. Barcelona has a way of making you feel like you've been let in on something. Rome and Venice are inexhaustible. The Amalfi Coast, the Croatian coastline, the Alps in every form we've found them — the Dolomites, Grindelwald, Triglav National Park in Slovenia — these places have shaped how we think about what travel is actually for.

What we've learned, after all those trips, is that we have two speeds.

The first is the city. Not the tourist version of a city — the museum queue, the hop-on hop-off bus, the restaurant with the laminated photo menu near the main square. The real city. The neighborhood bakery on a Tuesday morning. The market that isn't in any guidebook. The street that looks unremarkable until the light hits it at 6pm and you understand why people have been painting it for two hundred years. We want to be inside a city's life, not observing it from the outside.

The second is the trail. Or the ridge. Or the coast path above the water. Anywhere that asks something physical of you and pays you back with a view that earns its reputation. The high routes of the Dolomites. The meadows above Grindelwald. The switchbacks above Triglav's lakes. These are the places where Renee and I go quiet in the good way — where the conversation stops because there's nothing left to add.

There's usually water involved either way. A swim at the end of a long hike. A cove on the Croatian coast that you only reach by walking. The Adriatic in late September when the crowds have thinned and the water is still warm. We plan around water more than we admit.

Traveloma is where we write about all of it — the cities worth losing yourself in, the landscapes worth working for, and the moments in between that don't fit neatly into either category but end up being the ones you remember. Fifteen trips to Europe and we're just now starting to branch out. There's a lot of world left.

If you travel the way we do — slowly, curiously, with good shoes and an appetite for both culture and elevation — you belong here.

— Adam & Renee Stetzer