Tour du Mont Blanc Epic Video

Tour du Mount Blanc trekking season is underway in the Alps.! For those about to embark upon Alpine Europe’s most celebrated hike, or considering the tour at some point, check out our short highlight video of the experience. If these views don’t inspire you, what will? We made GREAT memories on the TMB that will last a lifetime!

…What’s Not (Yet) in the Bucket List

The Bucket Reserve List: Potential Future BucketList Destinations Alas, our Bucket runneth over. Or maybe that should read…”Yippee! There’s too much cool sh-t to do!” Brian and Sylvia hope to complete all the BucketList adventures in about ten years…or at least as many as they can in that time. But we’ll always be adding new adventures to the Bucket. Here’s […]

Shock, Sorrow…And Hope…for Our Lady of Paris

Notre Dame Cathedral Burns Just Eight Months After We Visited *BecauseItzThere was planning to run the third in a series of posts about our preparations for Patagonia. However, in light of the tragic events in France — and a place which we feel oddly connected to — we decided that can wait a bit.* By now almost everyone who has […]

Thinking of Doing Something Big This Year?

Visit Our Tour du Mont Blanc Planning Resources! Thinking of attempting something BIG this year that will change the way you look at the world (and yourself?) Consider the Tour du Mont Blanc. A very strenuous but incredibly spectacular loop hike out of the French town of Chamonix through the Alps, over a hundred miles in length, passing through three […]

Paris: If We Had To Do It Over…

Paris: L’Essons L’Earned, or What We Learned NOT to Do from Four Days in the City of Light. **Becauseitzthere is typically a hiking and outdoor adventure blog. But from time to time we will feature other sorts of travel and leisure on these pages. In other words…fu fu travel. And it don’t get no more […]