Most people book their W trek well in advance but if your travelling in the shoulder season then there’s no need to. We flew to Chile in mid September 2019 without anything arranged, at the end of September we booked a flight south to Punta Arenas and just 5 days before our arrival to Torres…
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Chile’s Lake District and hiking around Osorno Volcano
Chile is a wild country; it’s extremely long and narrow, home to deserts and glaciers and prone to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Mother Nature sure had fun here and we were treated to a birds-eye view of the landscape as we took a flight from Santiago to the Los Lagos region (the Lake District of…
Orcas and Humpbacks | Our encounters on two whale watching trips, Vancouver Island
Wherever we are in the world we try to do a whale watching trip and so far we’ve seen humpbacks in Hawaii, sperm whales in Norway, blue whales in Sri Lanka and Orcas in Alaska. With a little research I found out that Northern Vancouver Island is one of the most reliable places in the…
The ultimate hot spring roadtrip | Idaho
Idaho is home to more natural hot springs than any other state so we set out on one hell of a relaxing roadtrip to visit as many as possible. After soaking in our favourite ones around Stanley for the previous week, we reluctantly left the high mountains and followed river carved valleys west. The first…
Grand Teton National Park | Wyoming
Mountain ranges surrounded us on all sides as we made our way north to Grand Teton National Park. It’s the perfect park for us as it has incredible hikes, plenty of wildlife and free camping in the adjacent national forest so we never feel the need to rush. We arrived in the late afternoon so…
Finding hidden canyons in Utah and Arizona
I hate forks in roads as I always fear I’ll make the wrong decision, what if bad weather follows us on one route but it would of been sunshine if we went the other way? We had decided to revisit our favourite spots in Utah but I guess deep down it didn’t feel right because…
Hiking the jaw-dropping Angel’s Landing | Zion National Park
We visited Zion National Park back in winter 2010 and it was the first glimpse we got of desert scenery. As soon as we entered the park we realised we were desert people and instantly fell in love with the place. The scenery in Zion is pretty mind-blowing. There’s huge, sheer walls rising up to…
Boating and hiking around Lake Tahoe | Nevada
The sun pierced through the gaps in our curtains, waking us early so we could hit the road towards California. Our only plan was to head south to Lake Tahoe and we ended up on some very lonely roads. One of which had a sign for a ghost town 4 miles up a dirt road…
Converting a workers van into a tiny home in four days
We parked our newly bought van along the busy street of our Airbnb and headed inside for a very late dinner. It’s the first van we’ve owned with an alarm system so that was comforting but it didn’t stop me worrying that we’d wake up, look outside and find it had been stolen. I literally…
Swimming with Manta Rays on Ukulhas Island | The Maldives
Ukulhas island was the fourth and final local island we visited in the Maldives and our last chance for seeing manta rays. It’s a fairly popular island with a big selection of guesthouses, a few eaterys and an award for being an eco friendly island. Our guesthouse host met us at the jetty and he…
NON STOP TRAVELLING 