A Travel Blog by Katie Chavez
I hadn’t heard of the Grampians before moving to Australia. Like most attractions in Victoria (apart from the Great Ocean Road, Melbourne and Phillip Island), this National Park is virtually unknown to people outside of its home state. When friends in Melbourne suggested we join them to go camping and hiking in the Grampians over […] Read more…
Every time I go home these days, I try to add on a trip to a destination that I haven’t been to before. This time around it was Cape Reinga, north of Auckland at the northernmost tip of New Zealand, that was calling my name. It was time to do a Northland Road Trip! Despite […] Read more…
Despite our undying love for the Windy City, we wanted to check out a bit more of the Mid West. We rented a car for two days and set out to the Michigan Gold Coast via Indiana. Out first stop was the Indiana Dunes (hehe) National Lakeshore. The heatwave was still upon us so it was […] Read more…
Is the Great Ocean Road, one of the most visited parts of Australia, overrated? I kinda thought so. Don’t get me wrong. The beaches are beautiful, the towns are cute and the coastal views from the road are great (well, on one stretch anyway) but despite all this, I felt it was lacking. Lacking in […] Read more…
Auckland is the largest city in New Zealand, both in physical size and population, with 1.2 million people residing in this thriving metropolis. There are numerous big city benefits of living in Auckland such as world class dining, fantastic entertainment options and great shopping. But that is not why I love it. In my opinion […] Read more…
I first visited the beautiful Waiheke Island when I was a kid growing up in Auckland. I have hazy memories of deserted beaches and eating ice-cream from the dairy (that’s a corner store for all of you that don’t speak Kiwi). I remember it feeling empty, especially compared to the busy city suburb we lived […] 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…
To get from Toronto to Chicago involved 2 buses, numerous stops, an intrusive border crossing experience and a whole lot of time. I always dread having to cross into the States, especially by land. The US Border Guards are pretty much always nasty and incredibly self-important at the best of times, but the guy that […] Read more…
After the 1 ½ hour ferry crossing from Blacks Harbour, New Brunswick, we arrived on Grand Manan Island, and we loved the island from the very beginning. Grand Manan Island is stunning. Making our way past houses draped in colourful buoys and fields of wildflowers, we arrived at the Hole in the Wall Camping ground, about 1km […] Read more…