Brazil beaches: Our 3 days in the hippie beach town of Jericoacoara, Brasil

After the amazingness of Lençóis we continued our tour of Brazil beaches! The next stop on our itinerary was Jericoacoara, which is a little hippie beach town on the north coast of Brasil. The drive from Barreirinhas (where we stayed when visting Lençóis) to Jeri was supposed to take close to 7 hours, so we decided to split…

Our four days of touring the Lençóis Maranhenses landscape!

Wow, just wow. Honestly, I don’t know where to start this post, because I still feel at as much a loss for words as I did when I first laid eyes on the stunning landscape of Lençóis Maranhenses National Park in the north of Brazil. This literally has to be one of the most beautiful and unique and…

What is on our around-the-world packing list?

One of my favorite posts to read from other around-the-world travel blogs is a breakdown of a packing list. Before we took off on our own adventure I poured over these posts, figuring out what to bring, how much to bring, and how to pack it. I also think there is a fun “voyeuristic” aspect of seeing what…

Being quintessential Rio tourists – visiting Christ the Redeemer and Sugarloaf mountain!

Before we left Rio de Janeiro we knew there were two must-do, tourist-y, activities that we had to check off our list.I know seasoned travelers can be wary of super popular tourist destinations, and we include ourselves in that bucket. However, I also subscribe to the mentality that popular destinations are often popular for a reason and…

April 2018: Monthly Roundup

So, I’ve seen other travel bloggers do this (a monthly recap or roundup or whatever it may be called!) and I really like the idea – taking a minute to pause and reflect on the month, and record down little tidbits from travel and life that may otherwise go unnoticed. So, here we go, the first monthly round…