A Travel Blog by Katie Chavez
I had it pointed out to me a while ago that everything I post about the United States on my Facebook is negative. And, he was kinda right. Since Trump got in, and even now with the Democrats back in power, I have been feeling pretty negative about U.S. politics and the future of the […] Read more…
If you love markets and are traveling to London – you are in for a treat because London is home to so many great markets. Read on to find out the very best markets in London you shouldn’t miss. There is just something special about markets. Maybe it’s the old-timey-ness of them – markets have […] Read more…
Already have the well known highlights of South America locked into your itinerary and now you are looking for some more offbeat South America highlights? Then read on to find out the best of off the beaten path South America. Most people’s South American bucket list would read something like this: Rio for Carnival, Hike […] Read more…
It took me a while to finally start delving into podcasts, but now that I have, listening to podcasts is a part of my life. I listen to them when I’m on bus, train and car journeys, when I’m doing some of my more mindless client work and working on the blog, when I’m cooking […] Read more…
Call me morbid but I am fascinated by cemeteries. There is just something about them that I find enthralling. I think that death goes hand in hand with history and cemeteries are a showpiece of death. I love the peacefulness about them. I find them tragically beautiful. Every gravestone is for a person that was […] Read more…
I don’t know what it is about lighthouses that make them so intriguing and beautiful to me. It could be that there weren’t any where I grew up – well only boring small ones that don’t even look like lighthouses. Or maybe it’s just because they look cool. Maybe I was a lighthouse keeper in […] Read more…
There are many places in the world that I have visited and enjoyed but only a handful that I have loved so much that I am sure I will return to. With there still being so much that I want to see in the world, sometimes it is hard to justify continually returning to a […] Read more…
When Trav and I decided to move to Sydney after our big trip through the Americas in 2013, we were asked by numerous people ‘Why Sydney?’ Melbourne and Perth appear to be the cities of choice for lots of Kiwis moving to Australia at the moment, and I can definitely see the appeal of the […] Read more…