Having explored the Kenai peninsula we were keen to fit as much into the ten days we had left of our Inca to Inuit adventure. Desperate to venture as far north as our little car would take us we…
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The second half of our three week Canadian leg with my parents saw us depart from Jasper heading South. What awaited us was one incredible glassier-filled road, the biggest rodeo in the world, and the amazing semi-desert of the…
Alaska, the last frontier and the ultimate adventure playground. When Jake and I decided where we wanted to travel some three years ago, one thing was clear, we wanted to see and explore Alaska. To us, Alaska was an…
The Yukon. Just the name of the place conjures up images of wilderness. Nothing other than pine forest, bears, and gold. The truth is pretty close to this assumption, and because of its wildness, the Yukon and driving the…
Jake’s mum Samantha has very kindly written a collection of guest posts which will cover our time together in Canada. Here’s the second in the series. Back on the road, we headed into the Rockies, a long and initially…
My first few moments in a new city are spent comparing it to places I’ve been to before. It’s a bad habit that I seem to have developed over the course of the past ten months and to be…
After just under seven months weaving our way across and around the USA, it was time to temporarily say goodbye to America and embrace the behemoth land that is Canada. Neither of us had even thought about what we…
Standing on the corner of Goodge Street in central London, ten months ago I reluctantly waved goodbye to my friend Lucy. Under strict instruction not to open the card she had left for me until I got on the…
In an attempt to try and find some sunshine along the so-called sunshine coast, the three of us packed up the car and headed South to L.A along the Big Sur Claimed to be one of the greatest meetings…
I think the longest I’ve been without seeing my sister, Kayleigh is the three months I spent in China some ten years ago. Apart from that brief stint we’re never normally more than a couple of weeks away from…