Still feeling the effects of a crazy travel week riding camels in Morocco, sleeping in Bedouin tent villages in the Sahara Desert and hanging out in the chaotic sprawling urban jungle called the Medina of Marrakech, Micki and I were on the mend in Seville and looking for our next family adventure.When we pulled up a map of the area, it became clear that there was one last place we needed to check out before we left this area of Spain behind us. Only 2 hours south was an iconic landmark that I had heard about since childhood and never really thought I'd ever see it in person. Gibraltar was calling and that meant two things, road trip and monkees!
It's been a long road these last six months.In that time we've been to ten countries and set foot on four continents.We've logged over 28,377 kilometers (or 17,632 miles for our American friends), as the crow flies.Now that we're back in Canada for the summer, it's time to get my Canadian on...
Jordan, four years old and all of 32 pounds, makes a beeline for a sitting camel and bounds on top without a moments hesitation.I exchange a tentative glance with Charles, debating how much I should worry about our little girl's sudden bond with a 1,000 pound animal. Mohammad, the camel's handler is completely unfazed by Jordan's enthusiasm, though I'm fairly sure that small girls with wild golden ringlets don't fling themselves on top of his camels every day...
Getting paid to travel, teach and inspire is not something you see on a lot of job advertisements, but teaching English abroad is a fairly special career path. If you want to see the world, do something to shake up your life and have a great time doing it, teaching English abroad could be the answer. Take a look at these top ten tips of places to go…
One of the hardest things to do while on the road is to talk to friends and family back home on a regular basis. They're generally living their normal lives, going to work and so forth while you're doing your own thing on the other side of the planet.Emailing, texting and video chatting all help immensely however what happens to those friends or relatives not plugged into the internet or on the cutting edge of technology? Sure you can send them a postcard and hope they're doing well however that's a little one sided and frankly, so 1880.Let's kick it up 50 or so years and remember how it was done for almost a hundred years. Most people still have a telephone and here's a quick rundown of traditional and not so traditional ways to phone internationally.
Marrakesh's Medina is everything every guidebook says it is: a vibrant, teeming and wild assault on the eyes, ears and nose. Hustlers, touts, tourists, merchants, mopeds, cars, and even donkeys pulling carts of fresh vegetables somehow make their way along the narrow alleyways, as Moroccan grandmothers totter along seemingly oblivious to the chaos around them.It's this chaos that makes Marrakech's riads a perfect, calm place to escape. Check out our guide to finding the perfect retreat from the chaotic city streets and souks.
What makes one person decide to take a chance, and travel around the world for a year, while another decides to stay at home and forgo that opportunity?We take a look at Adam Shepard's new book, One Year Lived
to get his take on life and travel while looking back at our own reasons for travel.
to get his take on life and travel while looking back at our own reasons for travel.
Luggage, every traveler's bane and many traveler's only worldly possession. Do you own it or does it own you?I take a quick peak at how our luggage has evolved from our simple backpacking days 10 years ago up until we had kids and then the mountain of bags we traveled with right after.As the kids get older, is there hope on the horizon for us? I hope so....