Category: Travel Stories

Travel stories & ideas for adventures near and far – road trips, weekend getaways, budget trips and epic vacations.

9 Favorite Oahu Hikes, Snorkeling & Other Best Activities

9 Favorite Oahu Hikes, Snorkeling & Other Best Activities

While Oahu is not the first island I would recommend for a relaxing beach vacation (unless you are relaxed in hoards of people), it is a beautiful island with a ton to offer! We really enjoyed getting to spend three weeks there while house sitting near Honolulu, and... Read more
Our Best Day on Kauai: Na Pali Coast Boat Tour

Our Best Day on Kauai: Na Pali Coast Boat Tour

While planning our epic friendcation Hawaii trip to Kauai with our travel besties, a Na Pali Coast boat tour was high on our must-do list. Although a helicopter ride looked epic, a boat tour was a little more budget-friendly. Plus, we loved that it would also allow us... Read more
16+ Kauai Hawaii Best Things to Do & Unique Activities

16+ Kauai Hawaii Best Things to Do & Unique Activities

Looking for some Kauai Hawaii best things to do for your upcoming vacation? We've taken multiple trips to Kauai and keep finding new reasons to love it each time. This island has so much to offer, you could spend months exploring! We took our first trip to Kauai back... Read more
Top 14 Questions We Get Asked About House Sitting

Top 14 Questions We Get Asked About House Sitting

Since beginning our full-time pet and house sitting journey about five months ago, we have gotten a lot of great and oddly blunt questions. Like any interesting or unheard of way of life, people are curious about how house sitting works and how we use it to travel... Read more
3 Can’t-Miss Maui Scenic Drives: Road to Hana & More!

3 Can’t-Miss Maui Scenic Drives: Road to Hana & More!

Slow travel is our preferred way of seeing new places, but that isn’t always an option – so we’ve also mastered the art of the quick trip. This usually entails a lot of driving, lack of sleep, and an intense burst of adrenaline to make it all happen. In 2.5 days, we... Read more
How to Plan an Amazing Maui to Lanai Day Trip

How to Plan an Amazing Maui to Lanai Day Trip

We have what I like to call ‘lack of travel self-control.’ When we are near an interesting place, we have a really hard time not going to check it out. After RVing for a year, ‘near’ has become a very subjective term. So, when we realized we would be seeing all of the... Read more
An Amazing Hike to Visit Kalaupapa in Molokai, Hawaii

An Amazing Hike to Visit Kalaupapa in Molokai, Hawaii

When planning on visiting Molokai, Hawaii for two weeks, one thing kept standing out in our research as a must-do: hiking to visit Kalaupapa National Historical Park. NOTE: As of late 2019, the trail for hiking to Kalaupapa is closed until further notice due to a... Read more