About Steve Strong

Writer at Roundtrip Sightseeing

I’m Steve Strong, the writer behind most of the sightseeing guides and itineraries on Roundtrip Sightseeing. I’m not a former tour guide or a travel-influencer type — just someone who kept coming home from trips with a list of things I wished I’d known before I left, until writing those lists down for other travelers turned into this site.

Roundtrip Sightseeing exists because the “what to actually do once you’re there” part of a trip is usually the hardest to plan well. Flights and hotels are easy to book. Figuring out how to spend your days on the ground — which sights are worth the detour, how to get between them, what a route actually feels like underfoot — is where most travel content falls short, either too generic or too overwhelming. This site is built to close that gap: practical sightseeing plans, not just destination inspiration.

Over 25+ years I’ve traveled regularly and extensively through North, Central, and South America, and more recently across Asia and Europe — solo, with family, and as the person other people hand their itinerary planning to. Sightseeing on foot is where I keep coming back to: I’m a Dual Pilgrim, having completed both Spain’s Camino de Santiago and Japan’s Kumano Kodo — the two long-distance pilgrimage routes this site covers in the most depth. Both trips taught me the same lesson from opposite sides of the world: a route only works if you’ve actually planned the logistics, not just the inspiration.

Most of what I do day to day is testing the routes, stops, and booking options this site recommends before they go into an article, and rewriting older guides as conditions on the ground change. Some links on this site are affiliate links — free for you to use, and they may earn a small commission that helps keep this site running. Full details are in our Affiliate Disclosure.

I’d rather publish fewer, more useful guides than chase every destination trending this month. If something on this site is out of date, unclear, or just wrong, let me know and I’ll fix it.