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Bolivia Salt Flats Tour to Salar de Uyuni: Review, Travel Guide, & Tips

September 30, 2018 By John Widmer 51 Comments

Jumping Salar de Uyuni Bolivia salt flats

A top highlight for any trip to South America tends to be a Salar de Uyuni Bolivia Salt Flats tour. After exploring the continent for more than a year of adventures, the standard 3-day Bolivia Salts Flats Tour remains one of our absolute favorite experiences. The landscapes crossed during this […]

Filed Under: Adventures Around the World, Destination Guides, Posts, Travel Tips Around the World Tagged With: Best of, Bolivia, South America

The DMZ Train: How To Travel from Seoul to North Korea Border

September 22, 2018 By John Widmer 60 Comments

DMZ Train at Dorasan Station South Korea

It may sound like a crazy proposition to venture into what is a buffer zone to a lingering war. Yet while roaming around South Korea, we were intrigued by the possibility to visit the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between North Korea and South Korea. DMZ tours are actually somewhat of […]

Filed Under: Destination Guides, Adventures Around the World, Posts, Travel Tips Around the World Tagged With: Asia, Korea

How to Visit the Ruta Puuc: Yucatan’s Road Trip Across the Ancient Mayan World

September 8, 2018 By John Widmer 27 Comments

Collage highlighting the Ruta Puuc, showing: rental car driving down road, Heather taking pictures at Uxmal and Sayil ruins

The Ruta Puuc (Puuc Route) is a fascinating trip to take from Merida, Mexico. This roadway slices through the Yucatan to connect various ancient ruins for such an interesting look into the ancient Mayan culture. Embarking on the Ruta Puuc is a great adventure to take in the Yucatan, whether […]

Filed Under: Adventures Around the World, Destination Guides, Merida, Posts, Travel Tips Around the World Tagged With: Central America, Mexico, North America

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

15 Best Things to Do in Queretaro Mexico: Travel Guide

August 19, 2018 By John Widmer 54 Comments

Best 15 Things To Do in Queretaro Mexico

Querétaro is an emerging star of a travel destination in Mexico and has quickly joined our growing list of favorites places within the country. It’s such a pleasant colonial city to experience in the central highlands of Mexico. We found so many fun things to do in Queretaro to make […]

Filed Under: Travel Tips Around the World, Destination Guides, Posts 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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Inca Jungle Trek Review: The Most Adventurous Route to Machu Picchu

July 20, 2018 By John Widmer 90 Comments

Inca Jungle Trek to Machu Picchu activities: ziplining, mountain biking, whitewater rafting, and hiking

The Inca Jungle Trek is such an awesome way to get to Macchu Picchu! If you’ve been following this travel site, then you know there are two things we often look for in a travel experience: awesome adventure, and great travel values. So when considering the many different ways to […]

Filed Under: Adventures Around the World, Posts, Travel Bargains, Travel Tips Around the World Tagged With: Best of, Peru, South America

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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Top 15 Worst Travel Moments from 2017

January 14, 2018 By John Widmer 9 Comments

rainbow mountain in the snow

During the past four years of travel, each year we have the tradition of documenting our worst travel moments. Looking back at these laughable and scary moments is always a fun post for us to write. You can find previous entries archived here: Worst travel moments 2014 Worst travel moments […]

Filed Under: Misadventures Around the World, Blogs, Posts

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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Imlil, Morocco: Trekking the Atlas Mountains

January 6, 2018 By John Widmer 23 Comments

Imlil, Morocco, is such a pleasant escape into the Atlas Mountains. Most people traveling to Imlil will be coming from Marrakesh and hence will discover the cooler and more tranquil environment found, in comparison. In Imlil, the heat is gone and so are the touts that often bother travelers in […]

Filed Under: Adventures Around the World, Destination Guides, Posts, Travel Bargains, Travel Tips Around the World Tagged With: Africa, Morocco

Cruising Through Glacier Bay National Park Alaska: A Photo Essay

December 11, 2017 By John Widmer 1 Comment

Cruise ship in Glacier Bay National Park

Cruising through the rugged wilderness of Alaska’s Glacier Bay National Park was one of the most photogenic experiences we’ve had all year. The day in October that we traveled through the scenic waters will go down as a highlight in all of our travels around the world. Slowly entering the […]

Filed Under: Cruising Tips, Blogs, Posts Tagged With: North America, USA

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 […]

Filed Under: Monthly Updates, Blogs, Posts Tagged With: Best of

6 Awesome Experiences to Eat Lobster in PEI

September 9, 2017 By John Widmer 9 Comments

Lobster meal during PEI floating lobster boil

Prince Edward Island is world-renown for its shellfish, from those famous Malpeque oysters to its signature PEI blue mussels. Yet we came to PEI to get our fill of Canada’s most valuable seafood export: lobster! The PEI lobster is well known and highly regarded for its abundance in the clean, […]

Filed Under: Eating Around the World, Eating & Drinking Around the World, Posts, Travel Tips Around the World Tagged With: Canada, North America

Tidal Bore Rafting on the Most Extreme Tides in the World

August 26, 2017 By John Widmer 23 Comments

Going over rapids during tidal bore rafting nova scotia

We’re always on the lookout for a good adventure, but weren’t sure what we would find in Nova Scotia. As soon as we landed at the Halifax airport, I noticed a brochure for something called Tidal Bore Rafting. I had absolutely no idea what the heck tidal bore rafting was, […]

Filed Under: Adventures Around the World, Posts, Travel Tips Around the World Tagged With: Canada, North America, Nova Scotia

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