by Josie Kelsh | Oct 23, 2019 | Canada
During my trip to Canada and the USA I was in and out of Vancouver a few times, which gave me the opportunity to stay in some of the different hostels in downtown Vancouver. Here are my Vancouver hostel reviews, including which I think are the best hostels in...
by Josie Kelsh | Oct 22, 2019 | Australia, South Australia
Mention Port Adelaide to an Australian and they will probably tell you about either their love or hatred of the Australian Rules football team. They might also know it’s near the water and has a maritime history. There is a lot more to the area than that though,...
by Josie Kelsh | Oct 13, 2019 | Featured, Musings
I have debated long and hard as to whether I was going to share the lemon that life has recently thrown at me. This is a travel blog, it’s all about far flung locations and wild adventures. But my life for the next few months (with one short exception) is...
by Josie Kelsh | Oct 8, 2019 | Canada
During my recent visit to Canada we did a road trip from Vancouver to Calgary. The first stop of the trip was Kelowna, chosen because it is the hub of the Okanagan Valley wine region. We had only one afternoon the spare, and chose five Kelowna wineries for wine...
by Josie Kelsh | Oct 5, 2019 | Canada, Travel Diaries
Our trip to North America was coming to and end. We had just finished up an amazing road trip from Vancouver to Calgary, and now we were getting on a plane to fly back to Vancouver. We had a bit over 24 hours until we would board our flight to head home to Australia....
by Josie Kelsh | Oct 1, 2019 | Australia, South Australia
Adelaide, Australia, is a great city to visit all year round. South Australia is often known as the Festival State, because there always seems to be some festival or other going on. But there is one part of the year that Adelaide truely comes alive – and that is...
by Josie Kelsh | Sep 30, 2019 | Canada, Travel Diaries
After our weekend in Seattle we were back in the car for another road trip – this time we were off to Calgary. I had a hard time putting together the bones of this part of the trip, because there is just SO MUCH to see in this part of Canada and I only had four...
by Josie Kelsh | Sep 21, 2019 | Travel Diaries, United States
We left Vancouver just before lunch to drive down to Seattle for the weekend. Our daughter Bailey was with us to make it a party of three. She had briefly been to Seattle on a day trip with friends before, but really, this would be the first time any of us had...
by Josie Kelsh | Sep 20, 2019 | Canada, Travel Diaries
On our arrival back into Vancouver from our cruise, we docked at about 7am. It took until about 9am for us to disembark, and another hour or so before we dropped off our luggage at our hostel. Our plan was to head out and explore Vancouver some more for the day....
by Josie Kelsh | Sep 19, 2019 | Travel Diaries, United States
I’ve never done a cruise before. I’ve always hesitated when considering one because every other member of my family suffers from motion sickness. I couldn’t think of anything worse that having to deal with that for the whole time. It would not be fun...
