Hopefully, you’ve already read Part 1 of our series on housesitting – International Housesitting – How to stretch your travel budget and upgrade your trip. In it, we explained what housesitting is all about, along with the many benefits of house and pet sitting for both homeowners and sitters. We also examined the downside of housesitting. As we say in...
As of mid-2019, Tim and I will have been travelling the world for around 13 of the last 23 years. Even before we started international house sitting, people wondered how we could afford to ‘retire’ as early as we did. In the early days, that could be explained away because we mainly travelled in developing countries where the cost of...
PART TWO Day Four: Cranbrook to Golden, British Columbia We had breakfast at another Tim Horton’s again this morning, it was starting to become a habit. I must say though, they’re pretty convenient, warm inside and have clean toilets. Back on our way north out of Cranbrook, and on the 95, we stopped after Canal Flats to get a picture...
PART ONE Day One: Calgary to Fort McLeod, Alberta We had a week to spare in between housesits and decided to take a road trip into the Rocky Mountains. We had just completed our housesit in Vancouver and taken a 15 hour bus ride directly to Calgary on the other side of the Rockies. No sooner had we arrived and...
Port Townsend to Fisherman’s Bay, Lopez Island, Washington: (64kms) Ricki came down to the ferry to see us off to Whidby Island. From Port Townsend, it was a short trip across the bay and after we let the cars go ahead of us, we headed off in the direction of Coupeville, where we stopped for lunch at a service station....
Whitefish, Montana to Seattle, Washington: (Amtrak) Unfortunately, as it was an overnight journey, we missed out on any mountain scenery in the darkness, par for the course at the moment! We awoke around dawn to find ourselves in the Columbia River Valley and still well amongst the smoke we thought we’d escaped from back in The Rockies. We wound our...
Apgar Campground to Whitefish, Montana: (56kms) Still concerned by the weight we were carrying, we had decided to have one last shedding of things we wouldn’t need before we would hit the Rockies and the long climbs. The next morning we headed straight to the post office in West Glacier on our way out. Still somewhat doubting our ability to...
Rising Sun Campground to Sprague Creek Campground, Glacier National Park, Montana: (56kms) In the morning we stumbled around the site getting ready, lowering the tent and loading our bikes, all the time trying not to wake anyone. It was 4.45am and it was quite cool. Just Mark and ourselves were the only ones up. Mark was ready quickly and set...
Williston, North Dakota to St. Mary, Montana: (Train) We spent the majority of the morning hanging around the railway station waiting for the train. It eventually arrived nearly 3 hours late! We crammed on board after double-checking the platform staff had loaded our bikes and gear. If we had any lingering doubts about our decision to take the train, they...
Hazelton to Bismark, North Dakota: (76kms) Roger and Laura were already packed up and gone by the time I stuck my head out of the tent this morning. We looked at each other in amazement, how the hell did they do that without us hearing them?! On the edge of Hazelton we turned north onto state highway 83, it had...
A lesson in hospitality. Turning things around
23 Jul, 2015
