About ViaLooma

A road trip app born on the road

There are those mornings when we slide the van door open onto a landscape we didn’t know the night before: a desert, a mountain pass, a cove at the end of a dirt track. ViaLooma was born of those mornings — and of all the searching it took us to find them.

Claire and our dog walking towards our white van on a track in the Monegros desert, Aragon
Monegros desert, Aragon

A road trip always starts long before the first mile.

Our story

A van, a map and an idea

The story of ViaLooma, told like an itinerary: a start, three stops, and an arrival that is only a beginning.

Fred Creator of ViaLoomaand Claire’s co-pilot

  1. Start

    The call of the road

    It all starts with a longing for open air: driving without hurrying, stopping wherever the light is beautiful. Deserts, mountains, hidden corners — that freedom is what we went looking for in our van.

  2. Stop 1

    The research phase

    But every trip began with whole evenings of cross-checking maps, blogs and motorhome forums. The finds were there, scattered everywhere — and nothing to turn them into a real itinerary.

  3. Stop 2

    The finds

    Tracking down unusual stops, places off the beaten path: that is what excites us most on every road trip. “We” means Claire, my partner, and me, Fred. Two nature lovers and a van.

    It’s mostly Claire who digs up the spots and draws the route; me, I happily follow.

    Claire and Fred, smiling, below a rock chimney in the Monegros desert, Aragon
    Claire & Fred

  4. Stop 3

    A tool, for the two of us

    As a freelance e-commerce web developer, I did what I know how to do: I built a tool to help Claire — the places on a map, day-by-day stops, the route worked out. The evenings before a trip became what they always should have been: the start of the journey.

  5. Arrival

    For everyone who hits the road

    We surely weren’t the only ones. The tool of our trips became ViaLooma, open to everyone who hits the road: vanlifers, motorhome travellers, road-trippers by car.

Travel log

Our road trips by van

We planned these routes the old way, one browser tab after another. They are what gave birth to ViaLooma.

Spain

  • Bardenas Reales, Monegros and FinestresWhite tracks, hoodoos and a wall of rock.

Italy

  • SardiniaThe west coast, cove after cove.
  • DolomitesLegendary passes and alpine lakes.

Netherlands

  • The coast and AmsterdamThe dunes, then Amsterdam.

Morocco

  • Marrakech, the Atlas and the desertFrom the souks to the dunes, over the Atlas.

France

  • BrittanyWild coasts and lighthouses.
  • LandesPines, dunes and the ocean.
  • Pyrénées-OrientalesFrom the Canigou to the Mediterranean.
  • AuvergneVolcanoes and high plateaus.
  • ArdècheGorges seen from above.
  • French AlpsGreat passes and mountain lakes.
  • CorsicaBetween sea and mountains.

Our roadbooks

Our trips, the ones that inspired ViaLooma

What guides ViaLooma

You stay in charge of the map

I wanted a tool that helps without deciding for you. Three convictions guide every choice I make.

539,000places

The joy of searching

Poring over the map, spotting a lake, a village, a road full of hairpins: that is already the trip. ViaLooma suggests, you decide — every stop can be swapped, moved, pinned or removed, and everything can be undone.

37countries · 3 continents

Countries worth dreaming of

Chosen among the destinations road-trippers ask for most: from Scotland to the Dolomites, from Norway to Portugal — and on to North America and Oceania.

I wanted an AI that helps me search, not an AI that searches in my place.

Fredcreator of ViaLooma

Looma AI

A co-pilot, not an autopilot

I don’t like “all-AI” apps where you control nothing. And above all I didn’t want an AI that makes up a place, gets the road wrong or promises an impossible itinerary. So Looma AI works within clear limits.

How an itinerary comes to life

You describe what you’d like

“Ten days in the sun, some coves, not too much driving.”

Looma AI

Understands, and suggests a region, a start, themes and a pace.

The ViaLooma algorithm

Puts real places together, on routes worked out on real roads, at the driving pace you choose.

You shape it

Every stop can be edited, moved or undone.

Like any AI, Looma can get a detail wrong: check opening hours, access and conditions with the places themselves.

In short

ViaLooma in a few facts

What it is
ViaLooma is a road trip planner for Europe, North America and Oceania: from a starting point, a length and what you feel like, it builds a day-by-day itinerary — the map, the stops, the driving times and the story of each place — that you then adjust as you like.
Who it’s for
Made for road trips by campervan, motorhome or car.
Who makes it
Fred, a freelance web developer, with Claire, his partner and the scout of their road trips. The site is published by Waypoint Factory SAS, a French company — see the legal notice.
Destinations
37 countries on three continents: Europe, North America and Oceania. A single itinerary can cross borders.
Looma AI
Looma AI, ViaLooma’s conversational assistant, suggests a destination, reshapes the trip on request and answers questions about each stop, picking places from ViaLooma’s database and never inventing one. It runs on a model by Anthropic.
The offer
The essentials are free, with no sign-up needed to start; the Premium plan lifts every limit: unlimited Looma AI — itineraries, edits, questions about each stop —, trips of up to 45 days, unlimited saved trips, scenic roads and GPX export.

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