… in Nicaragua 🇳🇮
Yes‚ we’re home. And that, ladies and gentlemen, was around the world in 365 days. We wandered around the desert metropolis of Dubai and played in what could be the world’s best water park; we saw the ancient ruins of Petra, spent a night in the desert, rode camels, shared a sheesha with a rescue …
Fuelled by delicious K2,000 ($0.70 CAD) espresso from a magical place called Wonderbake in downtown Livingstone (Zambia), I decided to pen a deeper contemplation on what we’ve been hauling around the world. I’m not going to run through the basics—Allison covered that at the start of our trip; I’m going to touch on our rarely …
When we left our lovely little Vancouver apartment on April 30 it was bittersweet. I loved that apartment, it was wonderful in so many respects. But I also loved that we were embarking on our adventure! My emotions flip-flopped all morning, and in the end excitement won out as we blared Paul Brandt’s “Didn’t Even …
We leave today. Syracuse to Dubai.
I have learnt both from experience and from hours of procrastinating while reading travel sites that packing a backpack is both a science and an art. Travel Independent has an excellent list of what you actually need when you carry your life on your back – I also have taken great joy in the preparations …
I just finished my last exam of my student career (at least for the forseeable future) and I am feeling a little weird about that. Rather than being incredibly excited I am eerily calm about the whole thing. After three years, thousands of dollars, and hours and hours of work I thought that this would …
So much goes into planning a trip like this, and rather than studying for Professional Responsibility I am going to share the mountain of information I have acquired during the planning phase! Purchasing a ticket planning the route goes hand in hand so I am going to deal with them together in this blog post.  Before looking …
Welcome to our travel blog! It is a work in progress for the next two weeks but Jon was willing to get something up and running so I could start blogging! We are about to leaveon a year long adventure around the globe and this (longish) entry will answer the Who, What, Where, When, Why, …