A Travel Blog by Katie Chavez
Wondering how to spend one week in Cape Town, South Africa – don’t worry, I got you! Read on to find out my 13 highlights from my 7 days in Cape Town… Cape Town: what can I say that hasn’t already been said? This city truly is one of the most spectacular in the world. […] Read more…
Want to find out what the best Auckland activities are so you can make the most of your stay there? Then read on for the best days out in Auckland! Poor old Auckland gets a bad rap. Unfortunately this is mainly from New Zealanders who didn’t grow up here. Or from people that haven’t spent much […] Read more…
Like increasingly more things in my life, our day out in Melbourne was driven by my desire to see kitties. I haven’t been able to have one myself as I have been either living abroad or travelling over the last 11 years, which I think has made me a tad obsessive over every cute kitty […] Read more…
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 of them for their beaches. And I […] Read more…
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 for five months in 2009/2010 and visiting another […] 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…