After a messy heartbreak and feeling a need to escape, I found the only free website (read: potentially sketchy) that connected Au Pairs with families abroad. Within two weeks I had quit my job, given notice to my landlord and bought a one way ticket to Italy. While the job didn't work out exactly as I'd hoped, it jump started an altogether unplanned but incredible adventure of travel through Euro
pe with nothing but a tiny backpack and suggestions from other people I met along the way. I ate delicious food and went to museums and danced across city streets in the middle of the night. I felt alive in a way I had never experienced. And while I no longer sleep on park benches when I travel (you're welcome, Mom), that initial trip set the standard for a life of spontaneity and wanderlust. Now I'm lucky enough to have been to countries all over the globe, mostly by myself. And while I feel so fortunate for the things solo travel has taught me, I realize that it doesn't feel like an option for all people, certainly not all women. I know that sometimes our experiences in our own hometowns can be so unsafe that even thinking of venturing out to a foreign country seems impossible. I know that we are taught to believe that traveling is not an option. I started Away She Roams because I want to show women identified folks that not only is it an option, there's a whole amazing world just waiting to welcome you. To create a platform from which women can feel empowered to see the places they've always dreamed of, and to introduce some new ones they had not thought of yet. So whether you come on our trips and gain the knowledge and confidence to start planning and exploring out on your own, or if you decide small group travel with incredible women is exactly right for you and continue with us on many trips to come, I am so happy to have you. To support you on the wild, life changing adventure that is roaming this great big beautiful world.
-Katie Kramer, Founder of Away She Roams
