My story

  • My story

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    I’m Logan, an engineer-turned traveler that’s now being driven to entrepreneurship through this passion project. In August of 2022 I packed up my bags and took my savings from my previous life as an engineer to pursue my lifelong goal of backpacking, which was initially planned to be 2-3 months long.

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    One and a half years later I had visited 5 continents, 20+ countries and made hundreds of new friends along the way. However, about 3 months into this crazy journey, I realized that I called myself a “solo traveler” but I hadn’t been alone much at all; I had spent all of my time making friends and traveling with these no-longer strangers.

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    I wanted to see what it was like to be alone so I went anti-social for a week and I absolutely hated it. I still did all the fun things I was doing before, I still saw amazing new scenes, I still ate delicious new food but none of it felt the same. I realized at this moment that travel is so special to me because of the people I was meeting.

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    This newfound realization needed to be memorialized so I bought a pocket-sized journal and invited the other travelers I met to take a page and write whatever they wanted in it. This journal very quickly became my most prized possession (keep in mind that all of my possessions at the time fit into a single backpack). Not only did people love contributing to this collaborative journal, but I also loved jumping into the time capsule and looking back at what these people wrote (or drew). 

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    I received so much positive feedback about this little journal that I decided that I needed to share this experience with the world so I set off to make The Cameo Journal into a reality. The rest of my story is the work that I put into this project; from product design to manufacturing & logistics to website development, social media growth, and marketing & sales… 

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    Thanks for reading! I really hope that you can experience the joy of The Cameo Journal. If you have any questions or just want to reach out and say hi, please do. 

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    Happy Collecting,

    Logan Gross

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