Travel Reflections

The story of the day two women (us) jumped into cars and trucks with strangers across Patagonia to the end of the world.

Find out why I ended up speeding up the trails of Argentina’s best trekking spot without Jess and what moment made me feel like a true mountain hiker!

It is hard to verbalize the feeling of the discriminatory sting of discrimination that binational same-sex couples face due to DOMA. Ligeia and Mindy of BoundingOverOurSteps.com talk about how the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act affects their future together.

Two shiny new Ford transporter vans stop along the side of a white cement road and nearly 30 passengers pile out and reformulate into the small groups everyone came with. Dani and I stand off to the side and observe with some shock the other tourists in the group. A group of Brazilians (both female and male) in tank-tops, short-shorts and movie-star sunglasses and several girls in short-ish skirts. Before you start thinking Dani and I to be very prude (standing there in our long pants, closed toe shoes and jackets), we should explain that our tour was taking place in traditional Mayan villages outside of San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico. The agency had mentioned that we should wear appropriate clothes out of respect to the villagers – advice apparently very few of us chose to heed.

When I wrote my ultimate Australia travel bucket list back in the spring of 2015, I did not think that it’d take me another five years to finally make it …

13 September marked our 500th day on the road – it has been almost 18 months now since we started traveling and we spent the last 100 days traveling in Portugal, Canada and the U.S. Read on for a summary of our reflections and find our where we are headed next!

We are not ready to trade in this mindset-altering, life-affirming freedom that becoming nomads has given us…but we are increasingly shocked at just how forgettable this seems to have made us….

Life as digital nomads can sound glamorous and carefree, and to a certain extent, it really is. But there is a dark side to this lifestyle – the “near heart attack” when we think we’ve lost or misplaced something. Read on as we share our most embarrassing freak-out moment ever.

Here it is, part II of my look back at 2021 – including my travel stats and some thoughts on traveling during Covid. You can read part I here. July: …

Happy New Year, everyone! We made it through another pandemic year! Who would’ve thought at the beginning of 2021 that twelve months later, parts of the world would still (or …