Our pals over at GoPetFriendly.com have been running the Pet Blogger Challenge for eight years now. 2019 marks our third year of participation. The goal of the post is to reflect back on 2018 and identify goals for the new year. As you know, 2018 was an incredibly difficult year for us[...]
One of the most frequent questions we are asked is how we have been able to afford to travel for nearly two years. People often assume you have to be a trustafarian or wealthy to travel, and the simple answer is that is not true. Of course you need a job, and yes it helps if you have[...]
A Day in the Life of An Animal Shelter Volunteer Everyone in Colán knows where Sra. Rosemary lives. Located just a few blocks from the beach, Asocicasión Humanitaria San Fransisco de Asis (AHSFA), the animal shelter in northern Peru that Rosemary has run for nearly 30 years, sits down a[...]
Today marks one year on the road! We can’t believe that we are still on our bikes and traveling from Patagonia to Portland. Europe seems so long ago. We’ve come a long way from plunking down in the Oslo Airport without a map, pedaling off blindly in a new city. After one year on the road[...]
Weeks before our trip, we began our countdown to departure and made list after list of things to get done and packed before leaving. Of course, this doesn’t mean that we’ll remember all of those things we need to get done and, inevitably, something will go awry. Below, I tell the[...]
Yesterday morning, I attended a tourism industry seminar in Lloyd Center. Rather than driving to work in Oregon City, then back to Portland for the seminar, and back to work within a span of a few hours, I asked to work from home. I felt the best and most energized I’ve felt on a workday[...]
Committing to Travel – Jen’s Story I’ve always been a bit of a nomad in my adult life. Before moving to Oregon in 2010, I had never stayed in the same place for more than three years at a time since leaving my parents house at eighteen. Even during four years of undergrad in[...]