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Meet Your Guide: Adam Widmer
⭐️ Self-Guided Host Edition ⭐️

How did I get here?

In 2021, I graduated as a Veterinarian in Brazil, specializing in small animal clinic and surgery, and dedicated 60 hours a week to this wonderful profession for three years. However, during a pandemic year, overwhelmed by mental stress and deep reflection, I decided to pack and explore the world. Without making too many plans, I ventured into volunteer work around the world.

I worked as a photographer and part-time in hostels, cleaning, on farms, and at ski resorts. It wasn’t until 2022 that my passion for cycling began. With a borrowed bike, I made my first trip through Germany and Austria. Between adventures and working through everything from sun to snow, in 2024 I decided to explore Africa for three months —one of the most intense experiences of my life. Discovering the world on a bicycle is something special; it allowed me to truly feel the reality of every country I passed through.

It was after this adventure that I found the opportunity to work with Trek Travel, turning my newest passion into a career. Now, I have the chance to share and host that same feeling with others, living the experience of Girona and its culture in the best way possible: through cycling.

Have you had a chance to meet Adam? Let us know in the comments!

The food on Trek Travel trips? Genuinely unforgettable. 😍 We’re talking locally sourced, perfectly paired, gorgeous meals in some of the most delicious places on earth, like Mallorca, Loire Valley, California, Croatia, and so many more. Every destination, every dish, every glass of wine is chosen with the same care as the routes themselves. Come hungry. Leave obsessed. 🍷🫒🥖
 
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The view. The details. National Parks Edition.

250 years in, the best way to understand this country is still the same: at your own pace, immersed directly into the places that make you stop and look. Crater Lake's volcanic shores. The Blue Ridge Parkway at its highest point. The layered sandstone canyons of Bryce and Zion. These are routes where the landscape and details earn your attention mile by mile. 🏔️ ☀️🌊

That's a wrap on Solvang. 🚴‍♀️

Another season of Ride Camp in California's Santa Ynez Valley is in the books — sunrise spins through vineyards, big climbs up Foxen Canyon, long lunches with new friends, and pro-level coaching from the best guides in the business.

New to Ride Camp? It's our annual gathering for cyclists who want to train hard, ride further, and level up, all on dialed-in Trek bikes.

Solvang 2027 dates are live. Our regulars book early for a reason.

Click here to reserve your spot: https://trektravel.com/tour/cycling/solvang-ride-camp/

Currently obsessed:

Paella in Andalucia. Poppies in Provence. Pasta in Puglia. And one very tiny phone booth in Scotland.

Swipe for a little tour of what's been making us smile lately.

Meet Your Guide: James Erlandson

I'm originally from Montana, but a career path led me to live all over the United States and Canada, and hobbies that enabled me to visit far-flung areas from Patagonia to Lapland and Oceania to the Western Cape. When I'm not guiding, I split my time between athletic coaching, lamenting about college tuition bills, and standing in my front yard shaking my fist at kids driving too fast in the neighborhood.

4 Truths and a Lie:

1. I was born with a rare genetic disorder, with one side effect being that I can only dream in black and white.

2. I've been a driver for presidential and vice-presidential motorcades.

3. Though American, I've trained as a sailor on a Canadian naval vessel.

4. Like Bruce Wayne or Clark Kent, for 20 years I led a double life as a corporate executive leading a $5 billion company by day and #1 internationally ranked video gamer by night. Neither of which knew about the other.

5. When I was 21, I broke my neck in a car accident and completed my senior year of college partially paralyzed.

My favorite place to guide is Fredericksburg, Texas.

My favorite trip memory? I've been lucky to experience Trek Travel both as a guide and as a guest multiple times. While having great memories on both sides of the equation, the stand-out memory was doing Utah as a family trip in 2019 - Zion and The Narrows is still something we talk about to this day.

Do you know which one is the lie?! Let us know in the comments!