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 […]
Mom and I visited Estonia on our amazing 10-Country, 10-Capital City Road Trip we did earlier this summer! We absolutely loved exploring Scandinavia and The Baltic States, especially Estonia. We travelled from Helsinki to Tallinn with Tallink-Silja Cruise Line which was a lovely experience and way to set […]
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 […]
Today I’m excited to introduce you to one of our most active, long-time #TRLT members, Ian Oliver! Ian describes himself as a “Quirky alone middle-aged geek” who is interested in travelling solo and the darker sides of history & humanity. He is an older-than-the-average backpacker who travels with […]
I personally have not yet made it to Central African Republic, but a few years ago my brother Ammon did. Here are his words on the experience. “In CAR I was in the border town of Gamboula. It ended up being a day trip from Cameroon. It was […]
For today’s #TRLT Tuesday Traveller I am happy to present you with avid traveller Joe Baur! Thank you again, Joe, for taking the time for our #TRLT interview. Joe is a car-free travel writer and filmmaker who likes to find everything from neighborhoods to countries off the tourist trek. Besides […]
Today’s #TRLT Tuesday Traveller is Anisa of @2travelingtxns! Anisa was raised in Texas, but after college, her career took her to Phoenix and eventually to the Big Apple. Together with her friend Katherine, she runs the Two Traveling Texans blog. She has been to 33 different countries across five continents (and […]
This week’s #TRLT Tuesday Traveller is Marcel Hovens also known as @Wandelgek. I’ve actually been fortunate enough to have met Marcel in person several times. He’s such a lovely guy and always a pleasure to have around! Marcel says that his alias, “De Wandelgek” is Dutch for “sucker for […]
Today I am excited to feature Anne Slater-Brooks on today’s #TRLT Tuesday Traveller. She is an avid traveller who has visited over 70 countries on six continents since discovering her travel spirit as a teenager. She indulges her passion for travel by writing on her blog, Travel The Globe […]
I’ve spent almost every birthday for the past 11 years in a different country, so I decided I’d stick to tradition for my 26th last week! I was so happy when the ladies accepted my very last minute proposal to do an all-girls, five-country, ONE-day birthday blitz road […]
Although we only spent a total of 5 days in Armenia it was enough to prove, yet again, that just because a country is less famous, doesn’t mean a thing about its touristic value. As a family we backpacked across the Caspian Sea from Turkmenistan to the Caucuses. […]
Welcome to Albania! A small, less common travel destination in Europe. The country has beautiful coastlines on the Adriatic sea, and borders Greece, Montenegro, Kosovo and Macedonia. We visited Albania for a week in the fall of 2006 during our four year backpacking adventure around the world. We […]
As you may already know, just over two years ago, Shane Dallas and I founded a Twitter chat called “The Road Less Travelled” which we use with the hashtag #TRLT. Shane, most commonly known as The Travel Camel, is a fellow adventure traveller from Australia who has been […]
As promised, this post is dedicated to Shane Dallas (or more commonly known as @thetravelcamel) my fellow founder of #TRLT, our weekly Twitter travel chat which stands for The Road Less Travelled. Shane is a professional public speaker, traveller and photographer. His photography was what stood out to […]
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