Most of my year in review posts have had some sort of theme to tie them together. The year I went full time in my blog, or the year a pandemic hit and we almost went under ... you know, juicy stuff. This year? This was like the year of its-still-2020 … [Read more...] about 2021 Year in Review: The Year of Metamorphosis
2020 Year in Review: The Year of “Oh No”
I have a confession to make. At the end of 2019, exhausted and burnt out, I made a New Years resolution that, in hindsight, may have doomed the entire world: I wanted to travel less and spend more time at home, baking and taking long walks and … [Read more...] about 2020 Year in Review: The Year of “Oh No”
Katy: My Incredible Grandmother, My Travel Muse
In early February of 2019, my grandmother Katy passed away. She was 93, so we can say things like "she lived a long and happy life" and "it was not unexpected" but it was unexpected, because up until she had a stroke, she was in damn near perfect … [Read more...] about Katy: My Incredible Grandmother, My Travel Muse
2019 in Review: The Year of “Yes”
Well hello, hello. Welcome to our 4th installment of annual Year in Review posts. This year, I am 30 and writing this while wearing a bathrobe and sitting at my desk in my home office, because I have both a home and an office now. Exciting! Pull … [Read more...] about 2019 in Review: The Year of “Yes”
2018 in Review: The Year of High Risk … & High Reward
It's January 7, 2019, and it's my 29th birthday. I wanted to start my year by looking back on my old year. And 2018 was a crazy year. An amazing year. A life-changing year. I titled last year’s Year in Review post as "The Year that Everything … [Read more...] about 2018 in Review: The Year of High Risk … & High Reward
25 Things No One Tells You About Being a Full Time Travel Blogger
So, you want to be a full-time travel blogger. Or maybe you're already ready to quit your job and jump in, you fabulous, business-savvy blogger badass, you. But wait - before we hand you an ice-cold drink and a floppy beach hat with an inspirational … [Read more...] about 25 Things No One Tells You About Being a Full Time Travel Blogger
32 Things Nobody Tells You About Long Term Travel as a Couple
Traveling with your partner is one thing. Long term travel with your partner? That's like, a whole other, totally different, completely not the same thing. It turns out that traveling as a couple on a romantic weekend getaway is worlds different than … [Read more...] about 32 Things Nobody Tells You About Long Term Travel as a Couple
2017: the Year that Everything Changed for Us
In 2016, I got married, quit my job, and skipped away with my new husband to take a year-long honeymoon. How the heck was 2017 supposed to top THAT?! Last year’s year-in-review post was a round-up of 16 travel fails in 2016. At the time, our bad … [Read more...] about 2017: the Year that Everything Changed for Us
Winter Road Trip Through France: What Not to Do
Our off-season road trip through France was always doomed. It's not just that Jeremy and I seem to attract disaster like magnets made of whatever the opposite of disaster is. But we have particularly awful luck when it comes to cars. In the first … [Read more...] about Winter Road Trip Through France: What Not to Do
The Cataract Falls Hike Disaster: Hiking in the Bay Area, California
For Lia and I, "hiking" and "absolute disaster" go hand in hand. It's an unfortunate pattern that popped up over and over again during our year-long honeymoon. There was the injured wrist on the Valle de Cocora hike in Colombia. There was the … [Read more...] about The Cataract Falls Hike Disaster: Hiking in the Bay Area, California
Our Year-Long Honeymoon: What Happened (& How Much We Spent)
Our year-long honeymoon is officially over. Really, it was officially over on July 11, 2017 - 1 year after we boarded a plane for Cartagena, Colombia to start our year-long journey. But now it’s like, officially over. Yesterday, all of our … [Read more...] about Our Year-Long Honeymoon: What Happened (& How Much We Spent)
30 Things Nobody Tells You About Quitting Your Job to Travel
It’s been a few years since we quit our jobs, hopped on a plane, and left for our year-long honeymoon. For years, all I wanted to do was leave my job in corporate America and go off an amazing journey, traveling all around the world and having … [Read more...] about 30 Things Nobody Tells You About Quitting Your Job to Travel
25 Things Nobody Tells You About Traveling While Fat
Traveling while fat comes with its own set of big ol' challenges. Like, no skinny person has ever stopped before booking a flight off to some exotic destination to google "am I too fat to fly?" or "will I fit in an airplane seat?" And even … [Read more...] about 25 Things Nobody Tells You About Traveling While Fat
25 Things We Never Asked for from Traveling the World for a Year
When we started planning our year-long extended honeymoon around the world, we didn't really know what to expect. We had a lot of hopes and dreams: we wanted to become wiser, healthier, better versions of ourselves. We wanted to become the sort of … [Read more...] about 25 Things We Never Asked for from Traveling the World for a Year
My Airbnb Account was HACKED! Why we no longer recommend using Airbnb
Airbnb is one of those luxuries in life that we take for granted in today's age of car-sharing and home-sharing and the sharing-economy and things that start with the word sharing but actually involve an exchange of money and people's actual stuff. … [Read more...] about My Airbnb Account was HACKED! Why we no longer recommend using Airbnb
Our 16 Worst Travel Fails of 2016
2016 was an amazing year for us: we got married, quit our jobs, and left for a year-long traveling adventure. I know, it sounds picture-perfect. It sounds like a magical travel montage of tropical drinks and sunsets and smiling selfies captioned … [Read more...] about Our 16 Worst Travel Fails of 2016
Why we’re leaving South America early
When we first began planning this amazing year-long honeymoon, we planned to spend 7 months backpacking through South America: starting in Colombia, working our way down through Ecuador and Peru, popping into Bolivia, and spending a month bouncing … [Read more...] about Why we’re leaving South America early
Hiking Machu Picchu: Failure on The Inca Trail
We're sitting in a restaurant in Aguas Calientes, the gateway to the Inca Ruins of Machu Picchu. Around us are five couples, two solo travelers, and two tour guides. All fourteen of them are tired, dirty, and covered in dried sweat. They just … [Read more...] about Hiking Machu Picchu: Failure on The Inca Trail