We Built a Casa in Mexico!
The last few years have been full of adventures, changes, successes, failures, and – probably more than anything else – challenges. If you've been following along, you know we took a yearlong sabbatical to travel the world, and then decided to make it a...
How To Spend A Week in Oaxaca, Mexico
Photos by Josh Meister Photo. We've now been living in Mexico for about eight months and had yet to travel very far – a big change from how we were living before we moved here! Oaxaca city had been at the top of my list for a while now, so we decided to spend a week...
Best Day Trips Out of Oaxaca City
Photos by Josh Meister Photo. Oaxaca is an amazing and colorful city. We spent just over a week there, eating, shopping, and exploring. Check it out here. We also took a couple of day trips outside the city. There's a lot of options for places to go and ways to get...
Eating All the Things in Puerto Vallarta
Photos by Josh Meister Photo. We've only had a couple of opportunities to explore Puerto Vallarta since we moved to San Pancho, so when we were thinking of some good activities to do with visiting parents, a food tour I've been wanting to do jumped to the top of the...
9 Tips for Long Term Travel
Photos by Josh Meister Photo. After living a life of travel for practically a year straight, making more mistakes than we would have liked, and befriending loads of other perma-travelers along the way, we came to terms with some realities about long term travel and...
Crossing the Border into Mexico
Moving to another country is a bit of an overwhelming endeavor. Since Mexico and the US are land-connected, we decided that instead of selling everything, hopping on a plane, and starting over fresh when we got there or shipping our belongings at a cost of somewhere...
Our Best Travel Items
Photo by Josh Meister Photo. CHECK OUT SHARI'S UPDATED PACKING LIST FOR LONGTERM TRAVEL HERE When you pack for a year on the road, you're going to have some hits and some misses. Some of the items we thought would be great crapped out on us almost...
The Imperfect Packing List for Longterm Travel for Women
There's certainly no magic perfect longterm travel or round-the-world trip packing list because every trip is different, and everyone's style and comfort level is unique. But there are some good general rules of thumb to follow: take less than you think you need (near...
Why We’re Moving to Mexico
Photo by Josh Meister Photo. The most common question we get asked these days is why are we moving to Mexico? And the answer is simple – tacos. Just kidding. But only sorta. Our intention in spending a year traveling the world was not to find a new place to...
How To Plan + Budget a Longterm RTW Trip, The Podcast
On Not Being Sick While Traveling
The Cost of Traveling the World for 1 Year
Mexico Recap Video + Expenses
Cultural Daytripping in Mexico
Living it Up on Mexico’s Riviera Nayarit
Weekending in Mexico City
Nicaragua Recap Video + Expenses
One Week for the Rest of Nicaragua
Little Corn Island – Worth It!
Guatemala Recap Video + Expenses
Three Weeks in Guatemala
Cheap-ass Spanish Lessons – Sign Us Up!
Colombia Recap Video + Expenses
Highlights of Colombia
The Only Gringos Around
Bora Bora Recap Video + Expenses
The Ultimate Travel Hack
Indonesia Recap Video + Expenses
Guide to Bali’s Nusa Islands
On Track! (Sort Of): Our Budget After Asia
Thailand Recap Video + Expenses
Truth and Pad Thai in Thailand
Vietnam and Cambodia Recap Video + Expenses
Siem Reap in 3 Days
The Heartbreaking Side of Siem Reap
9 Cool Things To Do in Hoi An
Five Days in Phong Nha
Good Morning, Typhoon!
Japan Recap Video + Expenses
Awesome Things to Do for First-Timers in Kyoto
A Visit to Lesser-Known Takayama
How to Use A Sento
Three Days in Tokyo
China Recap Video + Expenses
Trekking Hua Shan and the “Most Dangerous Trail in the World”
Hiking the Wild Wall
Do As I Say, or How We Almost Never Got To China
Three Weeks Exploring the Croatian Coast (Recap Video + Expenses)
Croatia’s Waterfall-tastic National Parks
Yay for Travel Insurance (Sort of)!
Bruised But Not Broken: Our Budget After Europe
Indulging Our Way Through Italy (Recap Video + Expenses)
Why You Should Skip the Amalfi Coast for Puglia and the East Coast
Venice on the Cheap
Three Weeks Island Hopping in Greece (Video + Expenses)
The Logistics of Island Hopping in Greece
Bordeaux on a Budget (sort of) with Video + Expenses
Why We Quit our WWOOFing Gig
48 (Almost!) Perfect Hours in Paris
Amsterdam FTW! (Video + Expenses)
Iceland – Elves, Fairies, and Trolls – oh my!
Iceland Costs and our Costly Mistake
#TripGoals
Jumping The Gun
Money, Money, Money! (Or, which credit cards and bank accounts we’re using – not quite as exciting a title)
Stupid Mistakes
