This is one of our first ever blog posts about our time paddling on the Horton River in Northern Canada in 2012. It has been edited to make it easier to read and images have been added. We still talk about this adventure and we sure hope you enjoy reading it as much as we …
This post contains affiliate links. If you click on any of these links Reason2Roam *may make a small commission at no extra cost to you. Bungee Jumping at Victoria FallsIt all started over a couple of beers in the bar, with some testosterone and peer pressure thrown in for good measure. We met a bunch of …
The canoe slid slowly to a stop. The sandy bottom of the ocean grasped the boat with the tenderness of a lover, but the strength of a hurricane. We were about 1.5 km from the shore in the Everglades and far away we could see the mangroves, and palm trees waving languidly in the breeze …
Some lessons travel teaches us are true life lessons like how to treat people, and what to expect of strangers. Other lessons are more travel specific. This post shares 35 lessons we learned while travelling for a year. We hope you can learn from us so you don’t find yourself without toilet paper after a spicy …
Well….kind of. More like “home-like” for a rest. And I don’t use the term “like” in the familiar teenage manner – you know: “like yesterday I like went to the like mall.” I am using the term as an analogy…we didn’t actually go home… but where we went was similar to home…except it was in …
Well Mr. Cochburn they are in the Ngorogoro Crater in Tanzania! This is also where you are more likely to see the very endangered Black Rhino. Throw in the Oldepei (Oldevei) gorge where ancient human remains were found and it’s obvious why Matt and I chose this adventure in Africa. Like the Jordan blog, I …
As high as you can into the wild blue – Dixie Chicks” Matt and I live in what many consider to be ‘cowboy central’ in Canada. Every year for 10 days our city drops large quantities of hay bales in front of bars and restaurants, people dust off their cowboy hat and boots, and country …
Whale sharks are large fish that are neither whales nor sharks. They are plankton feeders. When I say large I mean really, really, really big! We have always “just” missed the opportunity to swim with the creatures, and always swore we wouldn’t let the opportunity pass in the future. Imagine our excitement when our Lonely …
I was flipping through our Lonely Planet guidebook on Ethiopia and read about an interesting location in the NE of the country: The Danakil Depression. Perhaps what caught my eye was the statement: this is probably what Hell looks like! We both thought this sounded like an adventure and were lucky enough to join in …
Egypt! What a place filled with a lot of OLD stuff. It was about surreal to actually find ourselves standing near these ancient structures that are a piece of our collective history..we both kept pinching ourselves because it just didn’t seem real! We started our tour of antiquities in Cairo and were blessed to spend …
Ok…so I stole that from Lonely Planet..but it is kind of funny. I am talking about summiting Mt. Sinai: the biblical mountain where Moses received the 10 commandments. It is a popular tourist destination and for some reason unclear to us…it must be hiked at night to witness the sun rise. Matt and I are …
“No we can’t leave tomorrow, it’s too lovely here” ~ Matt It needs to be scientifically confirmed, but I do believe the gravitational pull of the earth is stronger in Dahab Egypt. It can only explain how Matt and I got stuck in this fantastic little town. Somehow, we were able to leave…perhaps this is …
To set the stage: Jordan is a Muslim country which means beer is hard to come by. Amman was in the middle of protesting increased gas prices so we stuck close to our hostel in downtown..which oddly is where all the protests were. Matt and I were at the same establishment, and this post is …
“To Pilgrim” – A journey in search of a higher plane. Our pilgrimage was the Camino De Santiago, a 650km trip from St. Jean Pied de Port in southern France to Santiago in Spain. We completed 250km over 10 days. We were told on our first night that every pilgramage should include some suffering. We …
Romania! What another gem of a country. We went in search of Dracula’s castle and found some great hiking, old school villages, and a new friend from Australia! Transylvania has all the tourist trappings you would expect from the location that inspired the famous Dracula character. Matt constantly did his best Count Dracula impression from …