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  • 06 2019 November

    50 Awesome Travel Blog Name Ideas

    50 77 Awesome Travel Blog Name Ideas When I was getting ready to launch my travel blog, I had a really tough time picking a name for the blog.  In reality, the name of a travel...

  • 18 2017 April

    Video: 10 Days in Patagonia with EcoCamp

    Read more about our trip here: https://thisworldrocks.com/tag/patagonia/ Learn more about EcoCamp here: http://ecocamp.travel Song: “Way Down We Go” by Kaleo http://www.officialkaleo.com/music...

  • 18 2017 February

    Wild Horse Trekking with EcoCamp in Patagonia

    Today was our first morning waking up at EcoCamp, and it takes us only one step outside of our dome to be completely in awe of the view.  EcoCamp is built on top of a small ridge,...

  • 29 2017 January

    Our Home for the Next Week: EcoCamp Patagonia

    After a 45-hour journey via Santiago, we have finally made it to Chilean Patagonia!  The final eight hours of our journey took place this morning with a flight from Santiago to Punta Arenas, followed by a...

  • 22 2017 January

    On Our Way to Patagonia: 24 Hours in Santiago, Chile

    When it comes to choosing travel destinations, I never have a shortage of methods on how to decide where I go next.  There are places I’ve dreamed about forever, places inspired by history or wonder, places I’ve heard...

Here is the video I made from our 56-day overland trip in Africa.  Enjoy! – Read our stories from Africa. – Our review of Oasis Overland. – Learn more about Oasis Overland on their website: oasisoverland.co.uk...

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Israel is known as the holy land and its tourism industry is certainly centered around its holy sites for Christians, Jews, and Muslims. But we learned on our eight-day trip that there are some incredible...

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After four days of touring the northern parts of Israel and the West Bank, we have finally made it to Jerusalem’s Old City.  So much of Israel is modern and reminds of being home in...

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Our time in Galilee was great and today we will start making our way towards Jerusalem with quick stops in Golan Heights, the Jordan River, and the Dead Sea.  Today will be interesting for us...

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After a tour of Jesus’s boyhood home Nazareth, Alissa and I have headed east to Tiberius and the Sea of Galilee.  This is the second stop on our Holy Land tour that we are currently...

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As savvy readers of our blog may have noticed, we enjoyed our 2 month overland trip (check out this post, or this one, or this one). But we did so many things that my memories...

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One of the best ways for Alissa and I to cure travel burnout is to convince people to come visit us somewhere.  Having a familiar face or faces around for a week or two always...

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I’m a travel photo junkie.  I can spend hours browsing photography sites and social media sites looking for the travel photo that will inspire me next.  Below are 27 of my favorite from the last...

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Over the course of the last two months in Africa, I’ve received a bunch of emails and messages asking about my trip with Oasis Overland.  Why I chose them, what is the company like, would...

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We are out of Africa!  We’ve had a few nights in Johannesburg to readjust to finding our own way around a new city, but surprisingly, I still kind of miss our overlanding tent! Istanbul is...

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