A Travel Blog by Katie Chavez
Coming from the North Island of New Zealand, I grew up without knowing the captivation of the magical season known as fall in North America. A season that transforms parts of the US and Canada into a multi-hued, sanguine wonderland. Sure, we still had autumn with the trees shedding their leaves, the temperature dropping in […] Read more…
As you probably know, I am kinda in love with Vancouver so it was only fitting to end our Americas trip in one of our favourite cities in the world. Originally we were going to be spending a few nights in Victoria and were only going back to Vancouver to catch our flight, but as […] Read more…
Volunteering on Denman Island only became part of our plans at the last minute because of our bad experience at Osoyoos. It is funny how the unplanned parts of your travels, and in life in general, can sometimes turn out to be the most satisfying. After arriving by ferry from Vancouver to Nanaimo on Vancouver […] Read more…
After how well our first experience with Help X went, we weren’t as nervous about starting our second placement which was two weeks working on a vineyard/farm in Osoyoos. But if we knew what a Help X nightmare we were about to endure, we would have hightailed it back to Vancouver straight away. Osoyoos is […] Read more…
After a stressful time on Greyhound buses involving late arrivals, rude bus drivers and an almost missed connection, we finally arrived in Chase, the closest town to the HI Squilax Hostel and General Store where we would be volunteering for two weeks. Trav and I signed up to a couple of websites, Workaway and Help X, […] Read more…
Our Rocky Mountain Road Trip did’t start out with a bang. Sixteen hours on a Greyhound is not anyone’s idea of fun, certainly not ours. I think the fact that they made us change buses and wait around for an hour at midnight was what made it even less fun than we expected it to […] Read more…
As our time in Vancouver was coming to an end, I started to feel anxious. Although I was excited about our road trip through the Rockies and the volunteering set up for after that, I couldn’t help but feel that the best part of the trip was over – this is the pull that this […] Read more…
Anyone that knows me knows how much I love Vancouver. Trav and I lived here for a short time back in 2009/2010 and I fell head over heels in love with this city. For what I look for in a city, Vancouver is perfect (except for the rain from October to June). Within the Greater […] Read more…
After a very long day travelling 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…