We should have been exhausted. We landed on Mahé at 8 a.m. after a red-eye from Abu Dhabi spent next to several screaming babies. Then we walked out of the tiny airport into granite boulders, impossibly clear water and green mountains, and forgot we were tired. We spent about a week in the Seychelles in…
We spent 10 days driving ourselves around Oman in October 2019, and it’s a country built for a road trip. The highways are good, fuel is cheap, and the best parts sit well outside Muscat: canyons in the Hajar Mountains, abandoned mud-brick villages, and wadis you swim through. We drove from Muscat inland to Jabal…
We’ve spent more than a decade chasing adventure across 95+ countries, and these are the 20 trips we’d tell anyone to do. Every one of them is a trip we’ve taken ourselves — no filler, no “we’ve heard it’s great.” We cut a few crowd-pleasers from our old list while writing this. Some were party…
Osaka is Japan’s kitchen, its loudest city, and the most fun we’ve had in a Japanese city. It feels less buttoned-up than Tokyo and more lived-in than Kyoto. Neon signs line the canals, locals are happy to chat, and there’s food on every corner. A lot of travelers treat it as a base for day…
Chamonix holds a particular place in our lives. Tash and I spent a month in “Cham” the summer before we got married, living cheaply and falling completely in love with the place — the town, the mountains, the culture, the sense that you’re surrounded by people who have structured their entire lives around being in…
If you’ve spent any time researching ski resorts in Europe, you’ve almost certainly come across Les 3 Vallées. It’s thrown around as the largest ski area in the world — 600 kilometers of pistes connecting Méribel, Val Thorens, Courchevel, Les Menuires, and Saint-Martin-de-Belleville across the French Alps. It’s a number so big it almost sounds…
We recently put the Helly Hansen Odin 9 Worlds Shell Jacket 3.0 through the paces in our travels and outdoor adventures. It handled winter in the Canadian Rockies and a hiking trip through the Alps with ease. If you’re in the market for a new hard-shell jacket, the burly Odin 9 Worlds Shell will definitely…
The Croatian Coast has been having a moment for the last decade, and at the moment, it appears to also be the sailing capital of the world. When we started this blog, Croatia and its coastline were one of our first travel destinations. However, after ten years and a lot of buzz, we decided it…
Pig Beach, or Big Major Cay, is an island in the Bahamas best known for its resident population of domesticated swimming pigs. Only a handful of famous pigs are in the world, including Wilbur, Babe, and Miss Piggy, to name a few. And then there are the swimming pigs of the Bahamas. Only one option…
Few beach destinations can compete with the white sand, sparkling blue water, and warm weather of the Exuma Islands of the Bahamas. Staniel Cay, a small island, makes an excellent base for accessing some of the best spots in the island chain. One of the most notable hotspots near the island is the world-famous swimming…
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