Best and Worst U.S. National Parks after Visiting All 63

Have you ever dreamed of visiting all of the U.S. National Parks? Us too! We achieved our goal of visiting all 63 U.S. National Parks in August of 2023! Read on to learn a bit about our journey to visit all the National Parks, as well as a summary and some of our rankings of … Continue reading Best and Worst U.S. National Parks after Visiting All 63

2024 South America and Antarctica Trip: Summary and Expenses

At the beginning of 2024 we embarked on our 7th multiple month international trip since 2018. We've learned a lot about how to plan these trips over the years, and each successive trip has been a little more optimized. Although the costs of our trips have increased gradually over the years, our enjoyment of the … Continue reading 2024 South America and Antarctica Trip: Summary and Expenses

Epic 2024 Adventure: South America, Patagonia, and ANTARCTICA

*Written by Whitney* We are starting 2024 off with a bang by taking an epic bucket list trip to South America, Patagonia, and Antarctica! If you've been keeping up with our travels, you may be aware that we said our Summer 2023 Honeymoon trip to Europe, after our wedding in June, would likely be our … Continue reading Epic 2024 Adventure: South America, Patagonia, and ANTARCTICA

2023 Europe Trip: Summary and Expenses

At the end of August we wrapped up our most recent long international trip in Europe. We've taken many multiple month international trips in the last 5 years, but this one was really special (why? keep reading). If you haven't read about our prior trips and the associated expenses, you may be interested in those … Continue reading 2023 Europe Trip: Summary and Expenses

Guide to Visiting the National Park of American Samoa

Our Goal to Visit all of The US National Parks Several years ago, when we started our careers as traveling physical therapists, we began visiting a few US National Parks near our travel therapy contracts on the east coast. When we set out on our first cross-country road trip in 2019, we decided it would … Continue reading Guide to Visiting the National Park of American Samoa

Around the World in 2022

2022 was a whirlwind of travel for us! We spent only eight weeks at home all year, not consecutively. We set a goal to travel as much as possible before settling down and having kids soon, and we really cashed in on that goal in 2022. We spent the first two weeks of the year … Continue reading Around the World in 2022

Latin America Adventure 2022 (Trip Recap)

At the beginning of 2022, we set out on a 10 week trip through Latin America. Ever since our 5-month long trip to Latin America got cancelled in 2020 due to COVID, we had been trying to resume some of our travels there. In 2021, we spent about 2 months traveling around various parts of … Continue reading Latin America Adventure 2022 (Trip Recap)

2022 Around the World Trip: Summary and Expenses

Wow, 2022 was an extremely busy year for us. We started off the year with a couple week road trip to Florida. Soon after returning, we spent 10 weeks traveling all over Latin America. After that was a quick turn around to our 4 month summer adventure driving to/from and living in Alaska. A couple … Continue reading 2022 Around the World Trip: Summary and Expenses

Hawaii: Living, Working & Exploring for 3 months (Recap)!

In the summer of 2021, we had the experience of a lifetime getting to live, work and play in Hawaii for 3 months! I (Whitney) had the opportunity to take a travel physical therapy contract on the Big Island, and Jared came along for the adventure! We had an amazing time, and I want to … Continue reading Hawaii: Living, Working & Exploring for 3 months (Recap)!

2021 Cross Country Road Trip Summary and Expenses

We enjoyed last year's road trip in our van so much that we decided to do a very similar trip this year! We altered the route to be able to see more of the country including some new national parks and states we hadn't been to yet. We also shortened the trip by a couple … Continue reading 2021 Cross Country Road Trip Summary and Expenses