If you are a long-time reader you know that we love hiking and walking (hence the name Boots not Roots). When searching for some of the best places to hike we sometimes stumble across cool websites collating some unique hikes that we otherwise might not have heard of. The Sole Power blog powered by Michelin is an adventure …
Paddle Forward! Forward! Forward! Now hold on!!! I could hear our guide’s voice behind me encouraging us to paddle faster as we approached the upcoming rapid and I couldn’t tell if I was shaking because I was terrified, elated, cold, exhilarated, or a bit of all of that. After looking at all of the pictures I …
Have you ever been so excited about a place that you had to tell everyone you knew about said place practically immediately? There are really only two places that fit this bill for me — Penang, Malaysia (I know, I still haven’t told you all about this magical place!) and Heather Lake. Last night the hubby …
Ah, Nuremberg. Some of my earliest memories are of my time in this beautiful city. Dreaming of growing up to be Christkind. Dragging my Oma’s prized treasures through the chill of early morning to the Saturday flea market and then dragging them back to the apartment when they didn’t all sell. My first day at …
Unbelievable scenery, friendly people, impeccable wine, and to-die-for food There are only a few locations in the world where you can use all of these phrases to describe the place. Italy almost fits the bill, but misses on one note (I’ll let you make your own opinions onto which one 🙂 ). Croatia also almost matches …
This year has been CRAZY. Work went nuts in February of this year and hasn’t really slowed down since. We traveled a LOT both for work and personal reasons — a total of 8 countries so far this year! To top it all off, the hubby’s business took off and he started making money. In short, we’ve …
When I first started planning the hubby’s 30th birthday to Portugal one of the first pictures I stumbled across were the caves in Lagos. I started researching how to see these caves from the water and found a few different tour companies offering boat rides. We already had a boat trip planned and wanted to …
Have you ever been somewhere that your jaw just kept dropping over and over again? We’ve been a few places like this (the Algarve and Achill Island to name a few), but for both of those, we expected to be awestruck. We did not, however, have very high expectations for the Basque region and boy were we wrong. If …
May was the month of crazy. I thought April was nuts and then May came. Some highlights include not only a ton of traveling and adventure, but a new blog!!! I’m still tweaking it and will be changing hosts at the end of this month (faster site for the win!), but with all of the …
Two weeks ago one of my best friends and I jetted off to Brussels and Cologne to visit the famous Christmas markets. We fell in love. I’m not sure I can ever visit either of these cities again simply because the Christmas cheer was contagious throughout both. I don’t think the same charm and allure would …