A Travel Blog by Katie Chavez
To get from Toronto to Chicago involved 2 buses, numerous stops, an intrusive border crossing experience and a whole lot of time. I always dread having to cross into the US, especially by land. The US Border Guards are pretty much always nasty and incredibly self-important at the best of times, but the guy that […] Read more…
After a very long day traveling we finally arrived back in Quebec to Riviere du Loup, on the eastern side of the St Lawrence river. Unfortunately the bus station was located on the outskirts of town, and 6km from the camping ground we were going to be spending the night in. There are no public […] Read more…
Prince Edward Island is famed for its beautiful beaches, abundant seafood, bucolic farmland, red soil and cliffs and of course: Anne of Green Gables. I never read the books myself but obviously a lot of people did as everywhere you look in PEI there is some reference to Anne. In fact the main reason that […] Read more…
In most cases there seems to be no reason why places in the New World were named after their namesake in the old. I don’t find New York to be anything like York, as far as I know New Zealand is nothing like Zeeland and New South Wales couldn’t be more different than South Wales. […] Read more…
After the 1.5 hour ferry crossing from Blacks Harbour, New Brunswick, we arrived on Grand Manan Island, and we loved the island from the very beginning. Grand Manan Island is truly stunning. Making our way past houses draped in colorful buoys and fields of wildflowers, we arrived at the Hole in the Wall Camping ground, […] Read more…
We were lucky enough to get another rideshare organised to get from Quebec to Fredericton in New Brunswick as the buses in the Maritimes are ridiculously expensive. Our ridesharing hosts didn’t speak much English so it was a quiet but pleasant enough ride. They dropped us just outside of Fredericton and we immediately hitched a ride with a nice […] Read more…
I have been interested in visiting the province of Quebec for a long time, intrigued by what life is like in Canada’s Francophone province. Our first stop was Montreal. We had set up couch surfing with Mat and Marie, a French Canadian couple living in Verdun, a suburb on the outskirts of the city. Montreal […] Read more…
Thanks to the accrual of many air miles, we spent our first two nights in Canada in the Hilton Garden Inn Toronto Airport. It felt impossibly luxurious and we made the most of it, eating stomach-busting portions of the buffet breakfast, eating lots of the free fruit from the lobby, swimming in the pool, watching […] Read more…
So because we only had a short amount of time left to us before our flight to Toronto, we decided to spend our last week in Rio, rather than rushing around trying to see more of Brazil. Unfortunately before we could relax, we had to complete 18 hours on a bus to Sao Paulo then […] Read more…
We arrived to freezing Buenos Aires and eventually managed to find the subway system after a couple of false starts and confusion over all of the other different types of trains. Day One in Buenos Aires We found our little hostel, outside the tourist zone, and left our bags there before going in search of […] Read more…
