A Travel Blog by Katie Chavez
Originally published in August 2015. Updated February 2019. I have spoken in detail before on this blog about my love for Vancouver, here and here and here. So I really don’t need to bore you all by confessing my undying love for this city again. What I will say is that after living in Vancouver […] Read more…
The Crypt Lake hike is a well-known day trail in the often overlooked Waterton Lakes National Park, located in Alberta, Canada. It is a difficult 17km return trail that gradually climbs over 700 metres in elevation. This trail is the most well-known of the Waterton hikes because it involves a bit of an obstacle course – […] Read more…
Two years people! Who knew?! I certainly didn’t think I would still be travelling now. In fact, when I left Sydney to do a one year trip two years ago, the plan was to be living back in New Zealand now – pretty much settled and working a regular job. Thank God plans changed. Don’t […] Read more…
This month has been a lot more settled than last month, when I seemed to be in a different place every night, but still a pretty busy month none-the-less. Month Seventeen began with a couple more days in Vancouver, where I fit in a bike around the Stanley Park seawall, a wander around my favourite […] Read more…
Month Sixteen was a month full of travel and eating – and man did I pay for it! With so many highlights for this month and very little lowlights, it has been one of my favourite travel months to date. I wish every month was like this one (well, except for blowing my budget). I […] Read more…
It was during my third visit to the Canadian Rockies that I finally got to experience a mountain fall. I had always been in summer in the past which is a fantastic time of year for hiking and camping, but I was very much looking forward to discovering the mountains when the air was cooler and […] Read more…
You can’t always predict when you are about to embark on an adventure that will leave a lasting impression on your life. Before I did the two day return hike and scramble up to the Abbot Pass hut in Yoho National Park, I definitely didn’t know it would turn out to be the most challenging […] Read more…
My need to live in the mountains has been growing more and more as time progresses. It was never something I thought about when I was a kid growing up on the North Island of New Zealand. As long as I was by the sea I was happy, but that has shifted over the past […] Read more…
You don’t always get the chance to spend a lot of time in the places you travel to. Some places you only get to scratch the surface. That’s just the nature of travel. Revelstoke was one of those places for me. I only got a taster. But it tasted good. Revelstoke is a scenic mountain […] Read more…
I just can’t figure out why British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast isn’t better known to tourists. It’s blessed with natural beauty in the form of rugged beaches and lush rainforest, the towns are charming, the people are super friendly and welcoming, there is so much to do, and it is within day tripping distance from Vancouver. […] Read more…