One of the practices that Darren and I follow is to maintain a master packing list. This practice makes it easy to tailor our list for a particular trip, including backpacking, international travel, car-camping, or simply an overnighter at a friend’s house.
We just completed a podcast interview with Paul Schmid from The Pursuit Zone.
It is hard to believe that it has been six months this week since we have returned home from our 424-day global journey to raise geography awareness. Sandy writes how we inevitably receive questions about what it is like to be home after being away for so long and whether we are just plain bored after all the excitement of our trip.
During our global journey we published a “By the Numbers” summary of the countries we visited on each continent. Learn more about the 53 countries we journeyed to and view our Infographic.
During our global travels we interviewed a wide variety of people. Take a look at our interviews!
During our 14 month around-the-world journey, we completed 12 treks in some of the most remote places in the world. While trekking we filmed our experiences and created short videos to summarize our time.
Our ‘Best of’ Trekking the Planet wallpaper features 54 of our favorite photos from the 14 series that we released during our journey! The photos in this theme will automatically be rotated every 30 minutes.
One of the great pleasures of traveling is the culinary journey taken in trying food from the places you visit. While on our expedition, we wrote several articles about our food experiences. Read all six stories here!
Our journey has been featured on Matador Network! Trekking the Planet: Teaching Geography from a Travelers Perspective is the title of our interview.
Sandy features more travel ‘horror’ stories that we experienced during our journey.
In early 2011 when we began planning Trekking the Planet, we decided we wanted to travel with a purpose. Learn why we decided to dedicate our journey to bringing geography to life!
Here are all eight of the Trekking the Planet recap videos, filmed throughout our journey, in one place!
