Jon Levesque is a Seattle-based traveler and photographer who has been to 21 countries and 36 states. In April 2026 he launched I'll Be Your Friend — a service offering six 1:1 adventure trips per year to strangers with bucket lists. Applicants cover Jon's expenses both ways; Jon brings the company.
I grew up poor and in a place that never felt like home to me. I left at 19 and moved to Seattle. I've been trying to make up for lost time ever since.
Photography and videography is how I hold onto the moments. Friendship is how I make them matter. The best trips I've taken weren't about the destination entirely — they were about the person next to me on the bus, on the boat, on the cold bench waiting for the thing to open. Shared awe hits way different.
A view you love is a view. A view someone next to you loves too is a memory you'll dig up on your worst days and feel warm all over again.
The idea for this site is simple and a little weird: you have something on your list… a thing you've been telling yourself you'll do someday — and somewhere in the back of your mind you've been quietly waiting for the right person to do it with. Well… I'd like to be that person. Probably.
I'm easy company, I'm serious about the trip being your trip (I'm not here to hijack your bucket list), and I promise to show up exactly as I am… curious, game, hungry, present.
six spots a year. six different people. six adventures.
Each trip is with someone new — one adventure per person, per year. That's the whole model.
If we end up being two of the people in each other's favorite stories because of it, that's the whole point.
