Why I built Roam

I was born in Detroit, and these days you'll find me in Austin, Texas. My first real trip was to Egypt. I stood in front of the pyramids, got hit with a fast, full-on culture shock, and met people who genuinely changed how I look at life. I came home different.

After that I was hooked, and the planner in me took over. Before every trip I'd disappear into a spreadsheet for weeks. One of them had ten tabs running at once: a trip to France built around an EDM snowboarding festival, the best spots across America, and a handful of others, all going side by side.

And it always worked. If we ever hit a day with nothing planned, I'd pull up the sheet and point everyone toward the right place: the best shops, the tours worth taking, a bit of history about where we were standing. For a few days, I got to be the local. After putting that much money and time into a trip, I couldn't stand the thought of leaving a city without really seeing it.

The name came from what I was always doing anyway: roaming across the world map, hunting for the next best place to go.

I built it for the over-planners like me, and for everyone who'd rather spend those weeks building something else, or just being present with the people around them. I wanted to be more in the moment, not buried in tabs. That's the whole point: experience the best of a place, without ever feeling like you missed it.

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