About Quiet Route
Most trips start with a plan that never quite comes together.
How a van, a spreadsheet and a lot of open tabs became Quiet Route.
The story
The trips were great. The planning never was.
We travel in a self-converted VW Crafter most summers. The trips are the best part of the year. Planning them never has been.
A shared spreadsheet nobody updates, a dozen browser tabs, and half a conversation with ChatGPT that confidently put a campsite in a car park. Nothing took the whole job on, and nothing gave you back a plan you could actually use.
The build
I build things for a living. So I built this one.
I've spent more than ten years making websites and software. The summer we finished the van, I kept reaching for one tool that would take the whole trip on, and there wasn't one. So I started building it.
We finished the van in April 2025, and I'm still working a lot of it out: where the good overnights are, which roads a high-top van has no business on, what's worth the detour. Quiet Route gets a little better each trip, because I'm planning the same trips you are.
On the road
The plan was right until Glen Feshie.
In July 2026 we did seven nights in the Highlands, planned properly, and it was a good trip. On the way back down we wild camped in Glen Feshie, nowhere near where the plan said we'd be, and from that night on the plan and the trip had parted company.
There was no way to catch it up short of starting again for the days that were left. That was when it became clear the tool had to work on the trip as well as before it. Plans change in a campervan. Now the plan can change with them.
David O'Sullivan
Founder, Quiet Route
One person in Merseyside, not a company with a support queue. If you email me, I'll reply.
david@quietroute.ioThe plan you keep meaning to make.
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