Emily Simmons Apr 9, 2019 17 min To Motorcycle, or To Not Motorcycle - Vietnam The longer we’ve been on the road, the less we plan in advance. When we got to Vietnam, we really didn’t know what we were doing. We knew...
Emily Simmons Mar 14, 2019 4 min Looks Can Be Deceiving - An Indian Ayurvedic Cooking Class One style of cooking in India that is advertised everywhere, but is an ancient tradition from Kerala (South India) is ayurvedic cooking....
Emily Simmons Mar 14, 2019 8 min A Traditional South Indian Cooking Class Before we left last July, there were a number of things we thought we would miss, and while we do miss many things, we are beyond content...
Emily Simmons Mar 3, 2019 15 min Hitchhiking in Patagonia Part 2: Hitchhiking is the BEST way to travel here. I’ve seen the cheesy quote, “it’s not about the destination, it’s about the journey” more times than I can count; on book marks, coffee...
Emily Simmons Feb 18, 2019 21 min Hitchhiking through Patagonia Part 1: The First 2 Weeks In the United States, most kids are taught that you don’t pick up hitchhikers from the side of the road. Horror stories of hitchhikes...
Emily Simmons Feb 12, 2019 20 min 8 Days at an Authentic Yoga Ashram in Rishikesh, India Our Introduction to the Yoga Niketan Ashram Our tuk tuk driver pulled up to a random spot on a dark, secluded road. We followed along on...
Emily Simmons Jan 5, 2019 19 min The Trial Trails Emily & Jesse: Frogs are jumpy little creatures. Do you know how to boil them so they don't jump out? You put them in a pot of room...
Jesse Simmons Jan 4, 2019 22 min A Moroccan Road Trip Day 1: Late Arrival in Casablanca Day 2: Casablance to Chefchaoeun Chefchaouen was built in between two rocky peaks in the Rif Mountains...
Jesse Simmons Jan 2, 2019 9 min Hampi We arrived in Hampi at 7:30ish in fog of sleep deprivation and jet lag from our four connective days of travel (we flew from Morocco to...
Emily Simmons Dec 28, 2018 13 min India: First Impressions Out of everywhere on our itinerary, India was the country that we were most nervous to enter. We have heard from many people that you...
Emily Simmons Dec 24, 2018 7 min Hitchhiking in Patagonia - The First 48 Hours If you would have told me that I would hitchhike once, let alone as a lifestyle for five weeks, camping on the side of the road in hidden...
Emily Simmons Dec 14, 2018 8 min Midway Moments - Reflections from 5 Months on the Road We woke up to a morning colder than the others, hopped in the car, and drove in search of fresh bread. Our nutella, jam and apples were...
Emily Simmons Dec 10, 2018 11 min From Barcelona to Morocco Day 1: Barcelona to Casablanca Most flights from Buenos Aires, Argentina to anywhere in Morocco required a layover in either Madrid or...
Jesse Simmons Nov 27, 2018 4 min San Pedro de Atacama After the expansive beauty and freezing temperatures of Salar de Uyuni, the drive down the plateau to warmer temperatures was both a...
Emily Simmons Nov 27, 2018 9 min Salar de Uyuni - to Another Galaxy and Beyond The most popular tourist destination in Bolivia is without a doubt a four wheel drive trek through Salar de Uyuni, the world’s largest...
Emily Simmons Sep 28, 2018 8 min The Sacred Valley – Five Inca Ruins from Ollantaytambo When people think of Incan ruins, they immediately think of Machu Picchu. Of course we visited Machu Picchu and we saved it for last, but...
Emily Simmons Sep 9, 2018 6 min The Sacred Valley: Cusco and Rainbow Mountain When most people think of Peru, they think of Cusco and Machu Picchu. We were included in most people before we left, making Machu Picchu...
Emily Simmons Sep 1, 2018 1 min Street Art: For Better or for Worse? This past summer I worked as an instructional coach to help develop new teachers through an alternative certification program in...
Emily Simmons Sep 1, 2018 8 min Huacachina, Peru- Climbing up & falling down sand dunes in the world's driest desert Plus two days in Ica and Paracas After recouping from the jungle for two days in Lima, Jesse and I headed to Ica where we would be based...
Jesse Simmons Sep 1, 2018 8 min Iquitos: Into the Jungle Once we reached Iquitos we teamed up with the French couple from our cargo boat adventures to get a good price on a jungle tour. We woke...
Emily Simmons Aug 29, 2018 16 min Human Cargo on the Slow Boat to Iquitos Jesse and I didn’t plan anything in Peru beyond our first two hostels in Lima and Huaraz, which would get us through a week and half....
Emily Simmons Aug 21, 2018 9 min Laguna 69: Rent Camping Gear & Camp Overnight at the Lake We thoroughly enjoyed our previous two day-hikes to Laguna Wilcacocha and Laguna Churup, but Jesse had a wild notion that we may actually...
Emily Simmons Aug 19, 2018 7 min Trujillo to the Jungle: A Long Story THE BUS By Jesse Simmons The bus ride was an action packed 20 hour journey. It began innocently enough; we arrived on time and everything...
Emily Simmons Aug 13, 2018 7 min Laguna Churup - Day Hike No. 2 in the Cordillera Blanca Laguna Churup was our second day hike in Huaraz and although many consider it an “easy” acclimatization hike, it is known as a more...
Emily Simmons Sep 11, 2019 6 min The Prequel to the Huemel Circuit: The Hike to Mt. Fitz Roy in El Chalten, Argentina A 3 day journey to Mt. Fitz Roy and back to El Chalten, Argentina where we waited for the clear to begin the Huemel Circuit.
Emily Simmons Apr 9, 2019 17 min To Motorcycle, or To Not Motorcycle - Vietnam The longer we’ve been on the road, the less we plan in advance. When we got to Vietnam, we really didn’t know what we were doing. We knew...
