A Travel Blog by Katie Chavez
Have you ever been somewhere, absolutely loved it, even considered maybe moving there one day, then returned a few years later and thought: meh. That’s how I felt about Victoria, Canada. Don’t get me wrong, I still like the city. There were even things I loved about it. I was just underwhelmed on the whole […] Read more…
My time on Hornby Island should have been different. I envisioned laying on the famous white sand beach and swimming in the clear waters of Tribune Bay. Hiking through the temperate rainforest and enjoying carefree summer days on a beautiful island paradise. Unfortunately my experience there couldn’t have been further from what I imagined. It […] Read more…
It was hard choosing an island to visit during our short four day stay in tropical North Queensland. Really hard. First World problems, I know. On one hand there was Green Island, a sand island with white sand beaches and offshore snorkeling. Then there was the larger, mountainous Fitzroy Island with its rainforest walking trails […] Read more…
I had been excited to visit Key West ever since I heard that it is full of social outcasts that don’t fit in anywhere else in the US. It even has the nickname ‘Key Weird’. People are accepted here for who they are, eccentricities and all, and that appealed to me. Along with the island’s […] Read more…
Volunteering on Denman Island only became part of our plans at the last minute because of our bad experience at Osoyoos. It is funny how the unplanned parts of your travels, and in life in general, can sometimes turn out to be the most satisfying. After arriving by ferry from Vancouver to Nanaimo on Vancouver […] Read more…
Prince Edward Island is famed for its beautiful beaches, abundant seafood, bucolic farmland, red soil and cliffs and of course: Anne of Green Gables. I never read the books myself but obviously a lot of people did as everywhere you look in PEI there is some reference to Anne. In fact the main reason that […] Read more…
In most cases there seems to be no reason why places in the New World were named after their namesake in the old. I don’t find New York to be anything like York, as far as I know New Zealand is nothing like Zeeland and New South Wales couldn’t be more different than South Wales. […] Read more…
After the 1.5 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 truly stunning. Making our way past houses draped in colorful buoys and fields of wildflowers, we arrived at the Hole in the Wall Camping ground, […] Read more…
I have been interested in visiting the province of Quebec for a long time, intrigued by what life is like in Canada’s Francophone province. Our first stop was Montreal. We had set up couch surfing with Mat and Marie, a French Canadian couple living in Verdun, a suburb on the outskirts of the city. Montreal […] Read more…
Thanks to the accrual of many air miles, we spent our first two nights in Canada in the Toronto Airport Hilton. It felt impossibly luxurious and we made the most of it, eating stomach busting portions of the buffet breakfast, eating lots of the free fruit from the lobby, swimming in the pool, watching trashy TV […] Read more…
