Author: Justin and Steph

  • Month 11 Stats & Recap

    Month 11 Stats & Recap

    States Visited 7 – Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Nevada and California How We Got Around Lots more driving The street car in New Orleans A few Ubers in Austin Our feet – a lot more than the month before which felt amazing Best Meal Steph – Eating has…

  • Favorite Books – Winter 2020

    Favorite Books – Winter 2020

    It has been a few months since we shared this list of favorite books. Since a list for the whole year is a little overwhelming, we decided we would post every couple of months. There is a little overlap because we often convince each other to read books we have…

  • Month 10 Stats & Recap

    Month 10 Stats & Recap

    It’s a whole new year, but we are back with another monthly recap. Things look quite a bit different now because we are happily exploring our home country. This month was pretty quiet because we spent most of it in a small town in Iowa. We needed a bit of…

  • Month 9 Stats & Recap

    Month 9 Stats & Recap

    A couple days late on this one, but we are back with a recap of the last month. It looks a little different this month because we are officially back in the States and it is a brand new decade. Here is what we’ve been up to the last few…

  • 24 Countries, 1 Year

    24 Countries, 1 Year

    One year, twenty four countries. It’s been a wild ride. We wanted to do a quick recap of the places we’ve been, so we borrowed an idea from our kiwi friends. Simple and quick – we are giving you a quick overview of the countries we’ve visited and some of…

  • Christmas Card 2019

    Christmas Card 2019

    Mail is a wonderful thing when you see those handwritten addresses instead of the usual typed bank statement or utility bill. Christmas card season is the best time of year for the mailbox. Since we weren’t really able to pull it together and mail out cards, we are sharing this…

  • Month 8 Stats & Recap

    Month 8 Stats & Recap

    Countries Visited 7 – Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Slovenia, Italy, Austria and Germany How We Got Around 0 flights! Woohoo! 8 Train rides 3 taxi rides – there were a couple long hikes to train stations at weird hours of the night and we decided to spring for a cab instead…

  • A Guide for the Vienna Christmas Markets

    A Guide for the Vienna Christmas Markets

    After months of traveling around Europe, we are finally ready to kick off our Christmas season. We have to make our way to Amsterdam by December 13th, so we pulled out a map and made a plan. That plan was to visit a few Christmas markets along our journey west.…

  • Things to Know Before Traveling to Australia

    Things to Know Before Traveling to Australia

    Spending a month in Australia wasn’t on our original plan at all. When we were originally planning our trip, we knew that we could swing a couple weeks there to celebrate Steph’s mom’s birthday. The closer we got to that date, it became clear that making the jump from Australia…

  • Month 7 Stats & Recap

    Month 7 Stats & Recap

    Countries Visited 5 – France, Austria, Czechia, Poland, Slovakia How We Got Around 0 flights – Woohoo! 12 train rides 2 bus rides that we were able to carbon offset 1 Uber ride when we didn’t want to carry our bags 55 minutes to the train station 1 gondola round…