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What to pack? This was one of the first questions I asked myself after deciding to leave my job and travel the world, and it took a while to answer. When your entire life is packed in a carry-on sized backpack, each and every item inside needs to serve a purpose commensurate with the space …
Morocco is a beautiful country filled with diverse landscapes packed into a relatively small space, making it ideal for overland exploration. After spending a couple of weeks meandering through the medinas of Marrakech and Essaouira, we were ready for an adventure on the open road. Images of sand dunes and Berber villages pulled us toward …
It’s been over a year, and the blog is finally getting some new content. After 18 months of travel, I’m feeling inspired to reflect upon our experiences and share some of our best (and worst) moments in writing. Set your expectations low, and you just might be surprised with what you’ll find here over the …
Brandon and I are in the midst of a travel lull at the moment. We began this adventure without a detailed plan of where to go and when, opting instead for the relative freedom of booking travel on short notice and moving along at our own pace. Since Romania, we’ve moved quite a bit: In …
Traveling southeast from Budapest on the train to Transylvania, we weren’t sure what to expect. We chose to visit Romania, because it seemed to have everything we were looking for in our next destination: incredible mountains, friendly people, and places that are a little more off the beaten path. Our intel was solely based on …
We’ve been in Romania for over a week now, so I figured it’s about time for a post about our transition from Scandinavia to Central Europe. After Stockholm, we spent three days in Copenhagen (København to the Danes) before jetting southeast to Budapest, which served as a bridge to traipsing about Transylvania.One of the best parts …
Hello from Copenhagen! Given that we only have a few days left in Scandinavia, I figured I’d write about the Norwegian leg of our journey before it’s a wonderful but distant memory. Writing about our travels starts to feel like a burden when the days since our last post start to pile up, so I’m …
Iceland is by far the most expensive country Brandon and I have ever visited. Everything costs way more than what you’d expect to pay in the US: groceries, dining out, admission tickets, you name it. We’ve heard a variety of explanations for why things cost so darn much, and they boiled down to three main …
It’s been about a month since our last post, which is a lot longer absence than we’d intended! I’ve learned that blog posts are a bit like book reports. The longer you wait to write them, the harder it is to remember key details about the story. I don’t want these posts to feel like …
On Monday, we loaded up the car again (minus our trusty rooftop carrier and several hundred pounds of stuff) and left San Jose for our next stop: Yosemite National Park. Brandon grew up going to Yosemite, but I had never been. He was probably as excited to show it to me as I was to …