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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 Tagged With: North America, USA

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, 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 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 Tagged With: South America

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 Tagged With: Central America, Mexico, North America

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 […]

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Year #4 Travel Update from Roaming Around the World

January 8, 2018 By John Widmer 4 Comments

John and Heather, of Roaming Around the World, standing in front of a globe

Our fifth year of roaming around the world starts now! It was only supposed to be a one year trip. So it’s almost hard for us to believe that we’ve been traveling non-stop for the past four years now. Yet here we are in 2018, now 65 countries later, in […]

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Travel Update: We’re Circumnavigating the Globe Without Flights!

September 30, 2017 By John Widmer 13 Comments

Heather & John circling the world on a cruise to Japan

In this travel update, we’re announcing our new travel goal that will take us into our fifth year of Roaming Around the World: To completely circumnavigate the globe without the use of flights! We have a yearlong agenda planned to literally roam entirely around the world! We are so excited to […]

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Travel Update Summer 2017

June 12, 2017 By John Widmer 4 Comments

Heather with Canadian Flag in Guanajuato, Mexico

So here we are, halfway into our fourth year of this around-the-world adventure and we find ourselves back in the US. But this journey isn’t over yet! It’s been a fun romp around Latin America for the first half of 2017, exploring bucket-list destinations like Machu Picchu and the Galapagos. […]

Filed Under: Monthly Updates, Blogs Tagged With: Argentina, Bolivia, Mexico, North America, Peru, South America

Travel Update: Where We’re Roaming Around Next!

March 11, 2017 By John Widmer 5 Comments

napo river boats loading supplies in Coca Ecuador

So here we are, departing Ecuador, now three months into our fourth year of traveling around the world. And it’s been way too long since we posted a travel update. I remember the days when we used to post monthly travel updates that detailed our routes, miles traveled and favorite […]

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Travel Update Part 2: Where We’re Roaming Around Next!

July 9, 2016 By John Widmer 25 Comments

Heather is pointing to Africa

This is Part 2 of our long overdue travel update. You can see Part 1 here, which recaps the last few months of what has now become a 2.5 year trip around the globe. But let’s move on to the question that we’ve been getting a lot lately… Where in […]

Filed Under: Adventures Around the World, Blogs, Monthly Updates Tagged With: Africa, Kenya

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