And we intend to see it all
Lately we have been doing a lot of free walking tours and so I wanted to do a quick post about what they are. I am sure you could google it so I will keep it brief. In many cities that draw tourists, there are companies that provide “free” walking
A very quick introduction to geocaching. I am not going to go into great detail. If you are interested you can look at geocaching.com or the link below for specific details. Basically, geocaching is an outdoor activity in which we use a gps or smartphone to navigate to cleverly hidden
Nicola thought we should do an Iceland post to wrap up the campervan things we learned. I decided to expand that a little to include all of our lessons learned. This may seem like a jumble of things but nonetheless good things to know. Campervan Lessons Of course, you need
I have been building a Google Maps track of our adventure. This is where we are to date… I will complete it as we finish the drive and then update this post. Click on it and zoom in to follow us. The red numbers are where we stayed each night.
Well here we go. We are leaving Canada tonight with our first stop being Iceland. A quick video from the airport in Toronto. We have had several people ask us how we pack for a year of travel. It is not easy when you are going to both hot and
We booked a camper van for 11 days in May 2019. Price was not the only factor. In fact, one of the big factors for me was getting a bed that I would fit in. So part of my research was to figure out the bed size. For some, bed
With 90 days to go, we are ready to book the first leg of our trip. By the time we pack our house, drop our cat in Penticton, have family visits, I expect we will be on our way by mid-May. So we are now researching what to do in
How much does it cost to travel for a year? If you have never done it before it can be very difficult to create a budget. This post will show some tools you can use to estimate travel costs and set yourself a budget. They may not be perfect but
When you travel a lot, it is inevitable that you will spend many hours hanging out in airports… more than you want anyway. We wanted to share some of the tools we use when trying to figure out how to kill time or trying to make the best use of
We used the country and territory list from The Travelers’ Century Club to do a count for ourselves. Their list includes territories that are not usually defined as countries. However, their criteria have evolved over time. Look at the criteria for territories to be counted here. The shortest stop in