Though our stay in The Gambia was quite short, just 8 days, we made many memories there and met a lot of new friends. We stayed with a wonderful family who hosted all 6 of us (my entire family!) through Couch Surfing. It was here with their family […]
Gabon was an amazing experience and has so many intense and incredible memories, some of the best material I simply MUST keep top secret for the book series! I loved visiting countries I’d never heard of before because it’s like a a piece of the world map lights […]
It’s our wedding day!!! Our final hours as bachelor and bachelorette, I wanted to share his bachelor party and my second bachelorette party with you. My fiancé was kidnapped just two days before our departure by the bachelor fairies!!! They did a brilliant job of surprising him and […]
When people think of Ethiopia they may imagine poverty, barren earth and children with flies crawling around their eyes. We travelled overland through Ethiopia from Kenya into Sudan. The Ethiopia we saw over three weeks was full of big smiles, gorgeous, green and mountainous landscapes. We camped in […]
Today we celebrate our 3 year anniversary on “The Road Less Travelled” (#TRLT) Twitter chat! I can not believe that three years ago Shane Dallas and I founded this amazing chat and have not missed a single week in all that time! I don’t think either of us ever […]
I have yet to see East Timor but Mom, Dad and Ammon have been there. This is what Ammon and Mom have to say today about it: “Of all the countries I’ve been to outside of Africa, East Timor felt the most African. Not in a cultural or […]
Unfortunately I have not yet been to Cuba but LUCKILY someone in my family has been. Earlier this year, Ammon and Sasha went to Cuba and this is what he has to say about Cuba: “Cuba is a hard country to write about without getting political because it […]
DRC was an intense experience, one I was grateful to be in a convoy of three trucks and twelve people rather than our usual method of backpacking on local transit. A place covered in barbed wire fences, police and strict “no photo” rules through out the country. The […]
I’ve been distant and dishonest. I realized it last week when I received a message from one of my biggest and youngest fans, Nicole Martel. She discovered my book series when she met me at one of my book signings in Vancouver, Canada. You may remember her from […]
Ammon is again the only one of the family to has been to Djibouti so this is his story. Someday I will get there too I hope. Djibouti. It is a small Arab mostly desert country, home to a lot of foreign military bases and NGO-type organizations but […]
CRUISING – STOCKHOLM TO HELSINKI on SILJA SERENADE After spending four nights in Stockholm in a room with no windows, it was an extra special treat to have a WINDOW on my first-ever CRUISE! Given, it was only a one-night cruise, it gave me a great taste of cruise […]
Mom and I attended our first European TBEX (travel blogger convention) in Spain last year and immediately afterwards bought our tickets for this year’s in Stockholm, Sweden. A year passed in a snap and before we knew it, TBEX was two weeks away. Then a week!!! And we hadn’t planned […]
Being an avid traveller, living in The Netherlands is a land of opportunity and the perfect base for road trips. In the 7+ years that I’ve been living here, we (“we” includes various family members) have done road trips to Spain, Italy, Norway, France, Portugal , Austria, and a […]
We visited Croatia so many years ago on our family’s crazy four year adventure around the world. I think it was actually the SHORTEST stay in any country of that trip but that had nothing to do with our lack or interest. We stopped for a night in […]
We passed through Congo in just a few days. Despite a short visit, Congo made a lasting impression. A country full of barbed-wire, armed guards and police in the streets, patrols, dirt roads, river crossings, smiling children running next to our trucks, vast landscapes, bug bites and my […]
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