We’re back in Tucson for our third housesit here and have already had an interesting visitor in our front yard – a javelina, also known as skunk pig!

This week we leave Arizona and head over the border…to New Mexico! Our two week road trip starts tomorrow!

We may have saved thousands on accommodation costs, but that’s not what made our Brooklyn housesit such a dream. In this post we give an overview of the exciting things we were able to cram in to two months and what the true gift of this particular housesitting experience was for the two of us.

Last weekend we visited Tubac, a small artists’ colony only 20 miles from the Mexican border in Southern Arizona. This little town had quite a tumultuous past – read more about it here!

We meant to take a break and rest, but these three months since our last update have been as fast-paced and fun as ever. Read on to find out where we were, where we are, where we’re going next and how to keep up with us through it all.

We saw an alien in Roswell! Hundreds of them, actually. Famous for the mysterious UFO crash in 1947, we stopped in Roswell on our New Mexico road trip to find out the true story…

Here is my perfect itinerary for a weekend in Austin – including the best food trucks, bars and breakfast tacos, plus my favorite activities in Texas’ capital.

A car-free island with only 475 permanent residents and more quokkas than people? An island with 63 pristine beaches, 20 picture-perfect bays, coral reefs, essentially car-free and the majority of …

This week’s Polaroid encapsulates the short, sad story of Jess breaking her ankle in Cusco, Peru.

When I told Jess, “I want to walk the length of Broadway,” she looked at me like I was crazy. But on a sunny June day with our friend Jaime, we set out to walk the whole of New York’s Broadway Avenue – possibly the best way to take in the city!