Camping 101: What Do I Need?
Let’s say we just wrapped up our first trip as noted in my previous post and you had a blast. Hooray! Guess what that means? 1. Welcome to the great outdoors. You’ll be going camping again soon. 2. Now you need your own camping gear because it’s good manners to carry your own stuff! 🙂 If…
Do These 5 Things Whenever You Can Whilst Traveling
It’s November and we got our first snow today. That’s probably a major clue as to where we ended up living, but we’ll talk more about that in another post. I will say it’s now been three weeks since we moved in and every day I’m still amazed by some of the small conveniences of…
Camping 101: The Backcountry Bathroom
If you’re focusing on short day hikes and/or you are eating, you may wish to skip this post for the time being. Feel free to return anytime to learn more about using the backcountry bathroom! First things first: everyone poops. It’s normal and natural, and there’s no shame here. However, it’s extremely important to respect…
US – National Parks Road Trip Status Report #2
Start here if you’re just joining the journey! The Rocky Mountains After our long journey west we finally ended up in the Rocky Mountains! We’ve been exploring the range for the last couple of weeks on our US – National Parks Road Trip. Rocky Mountain National Park/Estes Park, CO We headed into RMNP after picking…
US – National Parks Road Trip Status Report #1
As of today, I’ve been unemployed for exactly two months. In less than a week, we’ll have been living out of our sedan for two months. That explains the lack of posts as sedans don’t have Wifi, but we’re taking a quick recharge trip in Missoula, MT, right now, and we have Wifi, so it’s…
Things We Learned During Our Long Trail Thru-Hike
The typical thru-hiker diet does not work for us. Through previous backpacking trips and researching the best calorie-to-weight ratios, we came to the conclusion that we would start each day of our thru-hike with pop-tarts, snack on trail mix and protein bars, make lunch with tortillas and dehydrated peanut butter, and dine on brand name…
Our Summer 2017 Plans
As of yesterday, we’re officially no longer homeowners! That means the adventure can actually begin – this is REAL now! Where are we headed? What’s the plan? Travis will be the first to tell you he’s not a planner, but I always operate better with a framework in mind. I can be super flexible within…
Vermont’s Long Trail Food Prep
As you may have heard, thru-hikers get hungry. Even when we’re not hiking, Travis has been known to get hangry: that irritable combo of hungry and angry. To help mitigate feeling gratuitously hangry on during our thru-hike of Vermont’s Long Trail, we decided to pack our initial bags with a bunch of food and mail…
Day Hiking Versus Backpacking
Time for another Camping 101 post! Today I’m going to break down the differences between day hiking and backpacking as well as some of the pros and cons. Someone’s probably going to ask me “Hey Sarah, which one is better?” and my quick answer would be “backpacking!” but that comes with a caveat. It’s not…
Favorite previous trips
Since we met in the woods it probably goes without saying that we spend a lot of our time together outside. Here are some of our favorite trips thus far (in no particular order): Big Island, Hawaii This one is pretty much a given. The Big Island has just about everything: beautiful oceans, rainforests, volcanoes,…
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