A Travel Blog by Katie Chavez
Originally posted July 2015. Updated February 2019. I have visited four Hawaiian islands in total over the past few years and I loved them all, but for different reasons. I love Maui for it’s swimmable waterfalls. I love Kauai for it’s lush greenness. I love the Big Island for the volcanic activity. I love all […] Read more…
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…
Month Forty One was a full-on month of good old-fashioned roadtripping! We traveled through eight states – seven of which were new to me – on our Southern honeymoon road trip, and even though a fair bit of it we were moving FAST, it was still so much fun. The month started with us exploring […] Read more…
Koh Phangan was never an island that I particularly wanted to visit. I was 33 on my first trip to Thailand and couldn’t have been less interested in attending a full moon/half moon/blood moon/blue moon/whatever moon party, and that’s why most people go to Koh Phangan, right? Turns out that there are a lot of […] Read more…
I can’t say that I had heard of Les Saintes before I started my trip research on the French islands of Guadeloupe in the Caribbean. Hell, I knew almost nothing about Guadeloupe at all, let alone that there was a secluded archipelago of mini volcanic islands, south of the main islands of Grand Terre and […] Read more…
Month Twenty Five of Digital Nomad Life was an action-packed travel month which saw me traveling through three countries and three States, having a ball and blowing cash. The beginning of the month was spent in Vegas, partying with my Denver family – although I was pretty lame and was in bed by midnight every […] Read more…
After spending New Years in rough and ready Coron, the first thing that struck me as we were pulling into El Nido, Palawan after seven hours on a ferry, was how much more developed it felt in comparison. But also – how much prettier it is. Emerald green water, towering limestone cliffs and lush green […] Read more…
I decided to go to Coron for different reasons than most. I don’t dive so it wasn’t for the ship wrecks that attract divers from all over the world. And it certainly wasn’t for its beaches as it really doesn’t have any to write home about. The main reason I ended up there was a […] Read more…
The word ‘paradise’ is bandied around a lot, I know. But sometimes there just isn’t a better way to describe a place that looks like, well, paradise, and Kalanggaman Island definitely fit the description of paradise for me. Uninhabited, tiny Kalanggaman Island is visited by day trip, from either Leyte or Malapascua Island off Cebu. With […] Read more…
The first time Malapascua Island in the Philippines popped up on my radar was when a British expat, who lived on the island and owned one of the dive shops, was murdered there. This didn’t stop me wanting to visit, but it could be one of the reasons why my time there felt clouded with […] Read more…