by timshazz | Jun 29, 2021 | Backpacking
After 8 weeks in China, and some super-long Chinese train trips, we were ready to move onto the next part of our Silk Road Adventure – THE STANS in Central Asia. The first cab off the rank was Almaty in Kazakhstan, but getting there wasn’t going to be a...
by timshazz | Jun 4, 2019 | House and Pet-Sitting, Travel Tips and Advice
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 The many benefits of house and pet sitting for both...
by timshazz | May 11, 2019 | Travel Tips and Advice
The Good Life… As of mid-2023, Tim and I will have been traveling the world for around 17 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...
by timshazz | May 5, 2019 | Road Trips
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...
by timshazz | May 5, 2019 | Road Trips
PART ONE Day One: Calgary to Fort McLeod, Alberta Our new housesit in Calgary is right next to the Elbow River 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...
