Seeing the fall foliage in New England was something I had been dreaming of for years. One thing my daydreams hadn’t included? Spending my life savings on achieving this goal. Yes, as soon as I began putting together a plan to road trip New England in the fall, I discovered …
I couldn’t believe it: I’d been in New Hampshire for under an hour and already my underwear was soaked. I reached for my crotch as I took a step back. “Oh! Don’t mind the dog, he’s a big softie really,” beamed the owner of my guesthouse before she spotted the …
I originally kicked off this post with the following sentence: I’ve been fortunate to have visited many U.S. national parks over my six years of travel. But as you guys know, I’m all about preemptively calling myself out on my bullshit, so I was immediately all like, hang on a …
When I last left you, I had just fallen in love with Maine. Despite Dave and I considering throwing our money to the wind and cancelling the rest of our road trip to stay in Acadia National Park, I knew we had to at least get to New Hampshire. Everyone …
I can’t stop thinking about Maine. From the moment I stepped foot in the Pine Tree state, I was smitten, and I still can’t believe it took me so long to get there. I’d go so far as to say it’s my new favourite state — I loved it that …
It’s been named the 7th weirdest museum in the world by TIME, which was all I needed to know before deciding to spend a morning at the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine. What the hell is cryptozoology? Oh, man. Cryptozoology is the study of animals that have not yet …
I’m rolling August and September together for this monthly summary because, um, I barely stepped outside in August and didn’t have anything interesting to write about. I kicked off August with a commitment to insomnia. Back at the start of the year, I set myself a goal to wake at …
There’s a danger that comes with returning to the places you’ve fallen for. There’s always an underlying fear that on second visit, it doesn’t feel the same; that either you’ve changed or it’s changed, and I’aaf not sure which of those feels strangest. I’m a firm believer in change being …
Sometimes you need a slow, laidback four weeks for once, and that’s exactly what month 56 was for me! I’d just finished up an intense island-hopping adventure around the South Pacific, and was exhausted, stressed, and ready to hit pause on my travels for a while. Luckily, I found the perfect two …
I was bored. Twenty minutes into our drive from New Orleans to Slidell, I’d decided to research what a swamp actually was, and it sounded boring. After five years of exploring the world, I’ve been lucky to experience many extremes of nature: camping in the Sahara Desert, hiking across glaciers in New Zealand, …
I get my addictions from my dad. Neither of us do things by halves. If we find something we love, we’re either all in, 100%, or we just don’t care. There was the time I developed an obsession with LOST and skipped three weeks of lectures at college because I …