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US Road Trip 2021: Best Destinations & Recap

September 10, 2021 By John Widmer 3 Comments

After taking a 12,270-mile summer road trip across the US, we reveal our favorite places and discuss our plans for what’s next.

Filed Under: Blogs, Monthly Updates, Posts Tagged With: North America, USA

16 Fun Ideas for Travelers to Do from Home when You Can’t Travel

April 2, 2020 By John Widmer 3 Comments

Once upon a time, back in 2020, travel became an impossibility across the globe. So we wrote this post in an attempt to provide a happy distraction for travel lovers to partake in. For travelers who aren’t able to travel, there are still plenty of fun travel-related activities to do […]

Filed Under: Travel Tips, Blogs, Posts, Travel Tips Around the World

The Ultimate Babymoon: Around the World Trip while Pregnant!

January 25, 2020 By John Widmer 18 Comments

Three suitcases announcing we're expecting a baby in May 2020

We’ve been keeping a little secret during this most recent trip around the world. There’s been a stowaway onboard with us during the past five months. It comes with great joy and happiness to formally announce that we have a new addition joining the Roaming Around the World team! Yes, […]

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Fall 2019 Travel Update: Affordable Luxury Trip Around the World

October 21, 2019 By John Widmer 12 Comments

From Mexico to Alaska to Japan to Thailand to the Baltics to Italy! If you’ve been having trouble keeping up with our roaming lately, we can’t blame you. It’s literally been all over the map and much faster than our usual pace. Yet it sure has proven to be an […]

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Travel Update: We’re Roaming Around the World Again!

September 4, 2019 By John Widmer 9 Comments

Travel Route map 2019

Greetings from sunny San Diego! We’re currently packing our bags, ready to begin another adventure that we’re excited to fill you in on. It’s been a relatively slow start to our sixth year of full-time travel. We’ve only roamed around three countries in 2019. Although we’ve been exploring many new […]

Filed Under: Monthly Updates, Blogs, Posts, Preparing

Mexico Trip 2019: Highlights, Reflections, and Trip Budget

August 27, 2019 By John Widmer 5 Comments

map of travel route through Mexico 2019

It’s been another fantastic slow trip through Mexico. Yet we are currently closing in on our final week in this beautiful country. With our time winding down, we thought to write a little travel update to recap our time roaming around Mexico this year. This Mexico trip isn’t quite over […]

Filed Under: Blogs, Monthly Updates, Posts Tagged With: Mexico, North America

Spring 2019 Travel Update + Where To Next! ✈️

April 13, 2019 By John Widmer 8 Comments

Heather and john mexico city skyline

📍 We’re not in South America anymore. Welcome to the Spring 2019 Travel Update on Roaming Around the World, where we’ll elaborate on where in the world we are now and pictured below. Does anyone recognize this skyline? Since our Winter Travel Update, way back in December, there’s been lots of […]

Filed Under: Monthly Updates, Blogs, Posts Tagged With: South America

Worst Travel Moments of Year #5 of Roaming Around the World

January 19, 2019 By John Widmer 7 Comments

poopoo land

As we roam around the world each year, we regularly use this blog to show some of our favorite experiences and destinations throughout the journey. We like to stay positive and inspire travel! Yet, often what you see here and on our Facebook and Instagram feeds, is just the highlight […]

Filed Under: Misadventures Around the World, Blogs, Posts Tagged With: Asia, China, Korea

Best Local Meals Around the World Under $25

January 4, 2019 By John Widmer 5 Comments

John and Heather dining out in Mexico

While roaming around the world we make a concerted effort to try the regional specialties of everywhere we travel. It’s been an absolute treat to be able to taste locally prepared food with local ingredients in their native land, as they’re intended to be. We run a weekly series on our […]

Filed Under: Eating Around the World, Blogs, Posts

Part 2: Travel Update – Where To Next! ✈️

December 10, 2018 By John Widmer 3 Comments

Heather and the Holland America Koningsdam cruise ship

Greetings once again from Fort Lauderdale, Florida! Welcome to Part 2 of our 2018/19 Winter Travel Update. If you’d like to see what we’ve been up to in Mexico over the past five months, you can check out Part 1 here. While yesterday’s post took a look at the past, we’re […]

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Travel Update: Roaming Around Mexico 2018

December 8, 2018 By John Widmer Leave a Comment

John & Heather drinking a cantarito in Mexico

Greetings from the Sunshine State! We’re currently roaming around Florida and it sure is living up to its nickname! We’re back here in the USA and it’s been a while since our last travel update on the blog. So as we’re passing back through the States, we figured this would […]

Filed Under: Monthly Updates, Blogs, Posts Tagged With: Central America, Mexico, North America

Top Creepy Places Around the World

October 26, 2018 By John Widmer 6 Comments

Most Creepy Places in the World While traveling around the world during the past 5 years, we’ve visited our fair share of creepy places in the world. So as a tribute to Halloween time every year, we like to update this post which highlights the most spooky spots we’ve encountered around the world. […]

Filed Under: Misadventures Around the World, Blogs, Posts

What It Was Like To Travel Entirely Around the World Without Flights

August 26, 2018 By John Widmer 3 Comments

langkawi Malaysia from cruise ship

In the prior article we published our mega-post full of budgets and graphs detailing exactly how we managed to pull off this trip around the world without flights. (You can read that here: How To Achieve the Impossible: A Cheap World Cruise.) As that post was already painstakingly long enough, we […]

Filed Under: Blogs, Cruising Tips, Posts Tagged With: cruise

A Midsummer’s Travel Update

July 30, 2018 By John Widmer 7 Comments

drinking coffee

Greetings from Pátzcuaro, Mexico! Grab a cup of coffee for this one. We’ve got a lot to catch up on! Is it really the middle of summer already? I feel like it was just a few short months ago we were tromping around in the enduring snow of the Swiss Alps. […]

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Spring 2018 Travel Update and What’s Next!

April 9, 2018 By John Widmer 14 Comments

Our flightless round the world route map

Greetings from Turin, Italy! It’s been a little while since our last travel update, or any blog post for that matter. But we’re back here to discuss our latest travel decisions, announce how we’re completing our flightless round-the-world trip, talk about where we want to take this blog, and ultimately […]

Filed Under: Monthly Updates, Blogs, Posts

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