A Travel Blog by Katie Chavez
Month Eighty-Five was a pretty great one because I got to spend most of it in one of my favorite countries: Canada! I started the month in the Kootenay Rockies, a part of the country I hadn’t been to before, and I thoroughly enjoyed exploring. From there, I headed up to Banff and Yoho National […] Read more…
Month Eighty-Four was a mix of work and road trips, and although I was busy on both fronts, it was a fun month and much better than the month before when it felt like everything went wrong. The first few days of the month I was still roadtripping through Montana and Northern Idaho on the […] Read more…
Month Eighty-Three was a whirlwind month of wedding celebrations in Mexico City and Cholula before I finally returned to the US after five months away – and promptly got COVID. I started the month with a few more nights in laidback Sayulita and we mostly just spent it hanging out with our friends at the […] Read more…
Month Eighty-Two was a whirlwind month of Mexico travel including road trips, waterfalls, beautiful historic towns, and beach time. We started the month in gorgeous Queretaro, somewhere we probably wouldn’t have visited if we weren’t doing a waterfall road trip but a definite highlight of the month. From Queretaro, we hired a car and spent […] Read more…
Month Eighty-One was another big travel month spent entirely on the road but it was more special than most because we spent three-quarters of the month in the Galapagos on a trip of a lifetime! We started the month with three days on Santa Cruz Island based in Puerto Ayora, doing excursions to swim at […] Read more…
Surprise, I am in the Galapagos Islands! We decided a few weeks ago that this was where we really wanted to go next and with prices a lot lower than usual and with fewer tourists, now seemed like the perfect time to take this once-in-a-lifetime trip. But backing up a little, most of month eighty […] Read more…
The 1st February 2022 marked 18 years since I left New Zealand to live abroad and travel the world, and it blows my mind that I am still doing it. What was meant to be a year in Australia and a couple of years in the UK before probably moving back to New Zealand, turned […] Read more…
Month Seventy-Nine was spent entirely in Colombia, traveling in the Caribbean Coast, the Pacific Coast, and Medellin. We started the month in Taganga where we had one more day hanging out by the beach and the pool before catching a taxi to Minca on Christmas Eve. In Minca, I did yoga daily, we hiked to […] Read more…
Overall, 2021 was not a bad year for travel although I mostly traveled within the U.S. due to COVID, visiting 14 states over the year on numerous road trips. I also spent six blissful weeks of summer in New Zealand, six weeks living between different mountain towns in Colorado during winter, five weeks island-hopping solo […] Read more…
Unfortunately, like 2020, 2021 was still not the best year for travel although I did manage to get some great trips in, both in the U.S. and abroad. After 18 months of no international travel (other than a trip back to my home country of New Zealand), it definitely felt good to visit a couple […] Read more…