ADVENTURE ON A BUDGET | TRAVEL BLOG
The Greek Islands were not an intended stop on our world tour; they weren’t even on our radar since they are not known to be “budget travel” or even budget friendly destinations. We assumed there was no way to fit them into our $50/day “business model”... That is, until we discovered a HelpX opportunity that traded some manual labor in…
The Earth throws just about every dramatic landscape at you in Iceland; Gushing waterfalls….check. Explosive geysers……check. Volcanoes and steaming fumaroles….check. Glaciers and icebergs… check. Hot springs and bubbling mud pots… check. Iceland is a country where the earth moves, and moves you. With 30 active volcanoes, and vast glaciers occupying nearly every mountain range, the land of fire and ice…
It was in Prague that we began our story… noses buried in our guide books, hurriedly walking down a cobblestone street and not paying attention until, suddenly crashing into each other. Knocking each other flat to the ground whilst locking eyes, and suddenly the song “That’s Amore” begins playing. A majestic castle looms in the background, overlooking the Seine –correction,…
The Making of an Explorer Gene (His Story) Growing Up Inside A Snow Globe… At the age of 6, my mom moved me to a new home. A magical and otherworldly wonderland home. The welcome sign at the entrance road to this unfamiliar land proclaimed that you were entering Leavenworth, Washington, the “Bavarian Village.” The sign included a new, unfamiliar,…
Part I: An Early Explorer My now husband and I were tucked between two lumberjack (err, gentlemen’s) clubs and an empanada food truck on SE 82nd Avenue when he realized without a doubt he wanted to marry me in 2012. We had found our way to a Vietnamese travel agency in East Portland thanks to our building handyman, Binh Nguyen’s…
When we left in July 2018, we thought our "world trip" was going to be a two year and done situation. And, the hospitality bar was set extremely high right off the bat when we opened up our trip by staying with the amazing Ek family in Kullavik, Sweden, about an hour southwest of Gothenburg. The Eks, whom Mandy knew…