We rented a Cruise America C21 Class C RV for a two-week road trip from Seattle to Los Angeles. After covering more than 2,000 kilometres, we’ve got a solid sense of what worked and what didn’t. If you're considering whether this is the right rental for your next road trip, here's our no-fluff, tried-and-tested review. … Continue reading Top Features and Drawbacks of the Cruise America C21 RV
After wrapping up our Canadian snowboarding leg, we swapped powder for pavement and kicked off the next phase of our journey: a road trip down the Pacific Coast Highway, starting just outside Seattle and winding our way through Oregon, Northern California, and into Monterey. 👉 Watch the full video here Planes, beaches, and Pirate Coffee: … Continue reading Exploring the Pacific Coast Highway: A Road Trip Adventure
After carving our way through Banff and Revelstoke, Whistler was our final snowboarding stop—and it gave us everything we needed to wrap up our Canadian Rockies adventure: scenery, sunshine, slow mornings, and one last perfect day on the mountain. 👉 Watch the full video here Slowing Down in Whistler Village One morning, Darryl hit the … Continue reading Whistler Wanders, Peak Views, and Bluebird Boarding: Our Last Stop on the Snow Trail
In early 2023, the authors journeyed through Alberta and British Columbia, enjoying a winter road trip across the Canadian Rockies. Highlights included snowboarding at Banff and Revelstoke, marveling at Lake Louise, soaking in hot springs, and indulging in local foods. The experience left them enchanted, planning future trips to the region.
After months of planning and a full season of vanlife behind us, we swapped the warm breezes of an Auckland summer for something… a little chillier. And by chillier, I mean a lot—we landed in Calgary, Canada, in the depths of winter. Welcome to the next chapter of The Peterson Odyssey! This post covers our … Continue reading Calgary’s Winter Wonders: Food, Festivals, and Dinosaurs
We pick up this post on day three of our North Island road trip in our rented camper van. Day three sees us wake up in Tologa Bay and cruise down the East Coast towards Gisborne where we have a spot of drinking and eating. Not quite tasting everything New Zealand can serve on a … Continue reading Van tour around New Zealand’s North Island – day three and day four
Right at the end of winter we hit the road in our rented Apollo Euro Tourer camper van (built off a 2019 Sprinter van) to your around the North Island of New Zealand. We left Auckland we headed down toward the Bay of Plenty, choosing to stay the night on the stunning Ōhope Beach - … Continue reading Van tour around New Zealand’s North Island – day one and two
I reckon if I were to clock our YouTube viewing hours in 2020, it would easily be higher than the previous three years combined. That global pandemic has seen us react really differently to travel and we started our first lockdown with travel videos which quickly morphed into van life videos. In preparation for building … Continue reading So… we started a YouTube channel
2020 sees many of us rethinking how we travel or in fact, how we live. And we are no exception. During our weeks of lock down we grappled with the reality of saying goodbye to international travel, notably our long awaited month-long trip through Central America. In the grand scheme of things not being able … Continue reading Van Life for life?
There is this neat new feature on AirNZ - the travel mapper. You can map where you've been and it gives some ideas about where to go next (via AirNZ, obviously). I love seeing where I've been and figure out where to next. Over my summer holiday before heading back to work, I'm keen to … Continue reading Where I’ve been and where to next…
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