Wondering where the lions are?
Well Mr. Cochburn they are in the Ngorogoro Crater in Tanzania! This is also where you are more likely to[...]
Rickshaw Run: 3 Wheels, 2 Weeks, 1 Crazy Adventure! Will We Survive?
What is the Rickshaw Run? In a word: Ridiculous. In more words: The Rickshaw Run is a 2 week long adventure[...]
Running in the Mazatlan Marathon – 10 km in the heat
What better way to start my winter fitness program in Mazatlan than with a 10km run in the Mazatlan Marathon?!I[...]
Retirement: Plan C
Retirement planning is often on our minds because we want to ensure we continue to have adventures well into our[...]
2019 Year in Review – Looking forward to 2020
The New Year is the perfect time to reflect on the past year and to dream of the future. We[...]
The Great Canadian Roadtrip with HitTheRoad.ca
Imagine the rich feel of leather enveloping you while staring at a dashboard of buttons that control everything from temperature[...]
Hiking the Great Divide Trail
Welcome to our Next Adventure - Hiking 400km on the Great Divide Trail! The route follows the Great Divide (also[...]
Gorilla Trekking: A How to Guide
We had such an incredible experience trekking the Mountain Gorilla's in Uganda and feel like everyone should experience this. So,[...]
The Canol Heritage Trail – A Beginners Perspective
When Karyn said yes to hiking with us on the Canol Heritage Trail in northern Canada we were pretty surprised.[...]
Strange things done in the Midnight Sun….
This is one of our first ever blog posts about our time paddling on the Horton River in Northern Canada[...]
“Cowboy Take Me Away”
As high as you can into the wild blue - Dixie Chicks" Matt and I live in what many consider[...]
The couches of America
Getting out of the saddle is often the hardest part. That first moment when you release your sit bones from[...]
Walk like an Egyptian
Egypt! What a place filled with a lot of OLD stuff. It was about surreal to actually find ourselves standing[...]
Here Fishy, Fishy, Fishy
Whale sharks are large fish that are neither whales nor sharks. They are plankton feeders. When I say large I[...]
The Red Chair in Auyuittuq National Park
We probably wouldn’t have appreciated the chair so much if the weather had been picture perfect leading to that moment.[...]
Aushwitz-Birkenau
I think I will continue to process the experience we had at Aushwitz-Birkenau, and will likely never fully grasp the[...]
Take a Hike
Europe redefines Old. Every city we have been in has an Old Town, maybe an Old Castle, and certainly Old[...]
Alia the Camel has 10 humps
Or just one hump and a really bad temper? Not sure. I don't think I really did anything to piss[...]