Through a bumpy and roughed in road, where the dips swallow the front end of a car, and the scrapes in the pavement on the edge of the dips showed where some cars did not make it unscathed. We made our winding way along the west coast of Vancouver Island from Victoria to Botanical Beach at the edge of Port San Juan.
Six years on the road, thirty-eight countries, with various suitcases we’ve packed and unpacked more times than we can count. We travel slowly because slow is the only way to actually see a place, one month in a village until you know which roaster makes the good coffee, three months in a city until the map in your head starts to match the streets. Romantic Roads is where we put the pieces of the life we’ve built moving: house sits, night buses, borrowed kitchens, the specific loneliness of a Tuesday in a place with a language you don’t quite speak, the specific joy of a Wednesday in one you’ve started to. If you’re building something similar, or thinking about it, or just want to travel from your couch…come along.
Where We’ve Been:
Africa: South Africa, Mauritius, Morocco, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Antarctica: Argentine Antarctica
Asia: Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand
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