A Travel Blog by Katie Chavez
If you are planning on visiting Inle Lake, then check out this two day Inle Lake itinerary and guide to start planning! As we glided through the still waters of Inle Lake, sitting local style side by side on the bottom of the boat, I let the last three days of trekking through the mountains […] Read more…
Looking for a scenic Vancouver day hike that isn’t too far from the city? Then check out my experience doing the Garibaldi Lake Hike – a stunning hike to a beautiful turquoise lake. There are many, many beautiful hikes around Vancouver, one of the reasons I love this city so much. Over the years I […] Read more…
The Alice Lake hike in Idaho was one of the best day hikes that I did last year – in fact, it was one of the best day hikes I have probably ever done. This hike to Alice Lake in Idaho has it all. Stunning Rocky Mountain scenery, gorgeous lakes with crystal clear water of […] Read more…
After spending two weeks in peaceful Big Bear Lake in summer, I came to realize pretty quickly that this beautiful place is worth spending some time in. Another few days spend there in the fall confirmed this. Less than a two-hour drive from both LA and San Diego, Big Bear gets a lot of visitors […] Read more…
After a stressful time on Greyhound buses involving late arrivals, rude bus drivers and an almost missed connection, we finally arrived in Chase, the closest town to the HI Squilax Hostel and General Store where we would be volunteering for two weeks. Trav and I signed up to a couple of websites, Workaway and Help X, […] Read more…
As our time in Vancouver was coming to an end, I started to feel anxious. Although I was excited about our road trip through the Rockies and the volunteering set up for after that, I couldn’t help but feel that the best part of the trip was over – this is the pull that this […] 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 US, 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 a very long day travelling we finally arrived back in Quebec to Riviere du Loup, on the eastern side of the St Lawrence river. Unfortunately the bus station was located on the outskirts of town, and 6km from the camping ground we were going to be spending the night in. There are no public […] 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…
So our journey continued with a flight on Bolivia’s Military airline, TAM, from La Paz to Rurrenabaque. It was a bit too bumpy for my liking but in the 50 minutes we were flying the change in landscape was very dramatic. We flew over snow-capped peaks and milky turquoise lakes then dramatically the mountains dropped […] Read more…