Hi, we’re Kate & Jeremy Storm!
We are full-time travel bloggers with an insatiable desire to travel the world and help you do the same.
Since 2016, we have been following our passions and curiosity around the globe in search of mesmerizing vistas, captivating cultural moments, and delicious food. Our adventures have taken us to 50+ countries, most regions of Italy, and most US states so far, with many more to come.
Along the way, we’ve made it our mission to transform our personal travel experiences into detailed itineraries and travel tips for you here on Our Escape Clause!
The origin of our travel blog is one that is common on the internet: in our early years together, Jeremy and I collected a couple of degrees, logged too many hours in office jobs, bought a house, and then decided to sell it all and become full-time globetrotters.
The globetrotting was only supposed to last 6 months, but as 6 months turned into one year, then 3 years, then a fully open-ended adventure, we started to wonder if we would ever stop. It is not an exaggeration to say that for us, full-time travel changed everything about how we expected our lives to unfold.
Fast forward to 2025, and travel continues to be one of the centers of our lives–though admittedly, it has some new competition!
After 4 years of full-time travel, we traded living out of backpacks for a series of apartment leases as we searched for a more permanent home. We spent between a year and a year and a half living in Lisbon, Austin, and New York City, and loved our time in each of them.
Today, we call North Carolina (specifically just outside of Raleigh) home. We live with our young son and our dog, Ranger, both of whom have collected quite a few passport stamps themselves!
Will we be based in North Carolina forever? We would never make promises about something like that, but we have cleared the (extremely low) bar of having lived here longer than we have lived anywhere else as adults!
Our Favorite Travel Experiences
While we struggle to narrow it down and are constantly adding to this list, a handful of our most memorable experiences from traveling the world over the last decade include:
- Camping on a volcano in Guatemala
- Celebrating several Christmases in Europe
- Spending a night under the stars in the Sahara Desert
- Visiting the Colosseum at night
- Taking a hot-air balloon ride in Cappadocia, Turkey
- Snorkeling in the ice-cold Silfra fissure in Iceland
- Learning to scuba dive in Thailand
- Fulfilling a long-held travel dream by visiting Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia
- Chasing waterfalls in Chiapas, Mexico (and cenotes in the Yucatan Peninsula)
Some of our most treasured memories from our years of travel also include our time spent “living” for 1-3 months in various cities around the globe, including in Rome, Florence, Istanbul, Boston, Cape Town, and Bologna.
Even though we have a full-time home now, this remains one of our favorite ways to explore the world, and we have our eye on several cities that could be our next slow travel destination!
While we adore train travel and use it whenever it makes sense, we’ve also developed a love for road trips over the years that have helped us enjoy more in-depth adventures than we would have otherwise.
From sampling the villages of southern Spain, Tuscany, and Ireland to marveling at wildlife on a self-driven safari in South Africa to falling in love with Utah’s national parks, we count our many road trips among our fondest travel memories.
About Our Escape Clause
While we occasionally share travel stories or personal reflections on this website, Our Escape Clause is and always will be much more about your travels than ours!
We are dedicated to using this space to share detailed, actionable advice for planning trips around the world, whether that is sharing exactly how to make the most of a week in Italy or where to find the best road trips in the USA.
We use our flexible schedule and insatiable curiosity to dive deeply into our favorite places, often revisiting the same countries, cities, and even attractions again and again in order to provide you with the best travel advice that we can.
Our Escape Clause tends to focus primarily on travel in the USA and Europe, with a special focus on Italy, but our love of worldwide travel draws us to create content from across the globe, and you’ll find travel tips for places as diverse as Jordan, Colombia, and Mozambique here.
Stick around long enough, though, and you’ll no doubt notice which places we have an affinity for visiting repeatedly!
Those include but certainly are not limited to Italy, France, Croatia, Spain, Portugal, the US South (Savannah ranks among our favorite cities in the world), Ireland, and Mexico.
I also have a love for crafting detailed travel itineraries, so you’ll find suggested routes for everywhere from Rome to Paris to New York to Mexico City to Istanbul here.
If you’re looking for information on a specific destination, we recommend using our destinations page or the search bar on the top right of the screen (or on your phone, through the pop-out menu in the top left of the screen).
With 550+ blog posts and counting, we have an enormous amount of information to share!
How We Make Money
Earning a living on the internet isn’t nearly as mysterious as it was when we started Our Escape Clause, but this is still a common question!
For us, it’s a pretty simple answer: we earn money via the ads you see displayed on Our Escape Clause as you scroll, and also via commissions that we sometimes earn at no extra cost to you if you make a purchase through a link on our site–for example, if you book a tour or hotel that we recommend.
We are incredibly grateful to call this our full-time job, and while we know it may not last forever (especially in the age of AI), we will always consider this journey a dream come true.
Wondering about sponsored travel? With the exception of a small handful of experiences in 2017-2018, we have always paid for our own travel, and we travel anonymously as we explore.
We don’t work to promote specific places or attractions on behalf of anyone else, preferring to remain “normal” travelers who take vacations across the world.
Our goal is to use this website to show our readers what is possible with independent travel, and hopefully help you fall in love with our personal favorite places along the way!
We’re also committed to ensuring that Our Escape Clause remains 100% human-produced and oriented: you won’t find a single word or photo generated by AI here!
Where to Next? (Our Travel Goals)
We’re constantly planning potential trips, but the reality is that we often book them at the last minute… so even we don’t always know where we’re going next!
As we look forward to the next decade of travel, though, we know that we want to:
- Visit all 20 regions of Italy (we’re at 14!)
- Visit 100 countries (we don’t plan to visit them all)
- … including every country in Europe
- Step foot on our final two continents (Oceania/Australia and Antarctica)
- Visit all US states
- Explore all 63 US national parks
- Hike a long-distance trail in Europe (maybe the Portuguese Way?)
- Attend a language school for a few months somewhere
- Show our son the world
The timeline of those goals is loose, though, and we will certainly get distracted with other adventures on the way.
For example, we’ve had a half-planned Turkey road trip on our wish list for years, and that doesn’t put us closer to any of those goals except the last one.
If those adventures sound interesting to you, though, we’re very glad you’re here and would love to have you follow along with us!
Don’t be a stranger!
We love hearing from readers!
If you’d like to get in touch with us, leave a comment on the post you’re reading, reach out via Instagram DM, or shoot us an email at hello [@] ourescapeclause.com.
We may take several days to respond if we’re on the road, but we make an effort to answer every email from a reader.
Thank you so much for being here–we are thrilled to have you around!
Kate & Jeremy Storm
