9 Ways to Be a Great Travel Buddy

Embarking on a journey with a travel buddy is more than just a shared adventure. It’s an opportunity to forge unforgettable memories, strengthen bonds, and get out of your comfort zone to experience life to its fullest. Whether you’re getting lost in a new city, trekking remote landscapes, or immersing yourself in new cultures, being…

21 Reasons Traveling with A Friend Beats Solo Travel

We’ve met a lot of travelers who are surprised by all the places we’ve traveled together. Often met with the response, “I could never travel with someone else, “Solo travel is way better,” or “How aren’t you sick of each other yet!?” To each their own, the Bros say.  Traveling long-term gives you an immense…

Skate & Travel: A Blog Series with Trucks and Fins

For this blog series, we teamed up with Trucks and Fins the World’s largest skatepark directory. Their mission: to help skaters discover skateparks across every corner of the globe. With comprehensive guides, interactive maps, photos, and reviews from real skaters, finding skateparks around the world has never been easier. It’s a game-changer for skaters who…

9 Reasons Why I Travel

Everyone has their own reasons for doing the things they love in life. One person’s passion may not be interesting at all to someone else. It’s one of the beautiful things of the human experience, we all are so similar, yet so different. When it comes to myself, I have two main passions in my…

I Got Bitten By A Dog in Xela and Left Guatemala

Wrapping up our second month in Guatemala we found ourselves in Quizeltenango after making the trip from Panajachel. With a week or so to kill before I headed to participate in a Workaway at a surf lodge in El Paredon, we figured we could spend some time in Xela. Here we’d experience Guatemala’s second-largest city…

A Check-In with The Bros feat. GAFFL.com

The Brothers Who Quit Their Jobs At The Age Of 30 To Embark On An Endless Pursuit Of Adventure This story was originally published on GAFFL, the app that helps you find a travel buddy and meet locals worldwide. We recently checked in with the GAFFL team to tell our story. Get A Friend For Life! GAFFL connects…

An Unexpected Mayan Spiritual Experience in Uxmal

While traveling the world, you inevitably come across amazing, inspiring people. When we toured the Mayan ruins of Uxmal, we crossed paths with Jorge, a man from a small Mayan village. Little did we know we had encountered more than just a tour guide. We were about to embark on an unexpected Mayan spiritual experience…

How I Crashed the Van in New Zealand

3 weeks of living in a van, it was starting to feel like home. The day started with one of those mornings that van life is made of. Sunshine peeking through the condensated windows, birds chirping amongst the fresh New Zealand air, and a campsite all to ourselves. We were posted up outside of Westland…

Two Years Later

The Bros went on an incredible journey of 400 days traveling around the world. A lot has changed in my world since then. Hell, a lot has even changed since One Year Later. So Two Years Later… The Highs Becoming an uncle once again is for sure one of the highlights of the past year….

Coronavirus and Travel

Everyone’s world has been turned upside down in the past few weeks. For travel enthusiasts like us Bros, the impact the Coronavirus has had on travel is a major bummer. Upcoming travel plans are up in the air and looking more and more unlikely by the day. None of us have experienced this in our…

Traveling Around The World With A Skateboard

To Pack or Not to Pack The pre-trip pack. For some seasoned travelers, it’s performed like a sacred ritual, days in advance to ensure they’re prepared to survive any curveball travel throws their way. For others, it’s a last-ditch effort the night before attempting to have enough clean underwear to survive their holiday, only if…

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From Tourists to Travelers

People travel to check off bucket lists, see amazing places and eat delicious foods, but one of the Bro’s favorite parts of travel is the people you cross paths with. This week we teamed up with a group of fellow travel bloggers to share our stories of the trip that changed us from tourists to…

Quitting Your Job To Travel The World

If you had all the time and money in the world, what would you do? One of the most common answers to this question is to travel the world. But what if we told you that you don’t need a six-figure salary, a lottery jackpot, or a trust fund. All you need is a little…

The Journey Around the World

Follow the journey around the world in our footsteps through 5 continents and 23 countries by means of flying, walking, driving, taxis, buses, tuk-tuks, vans, sleeper buses, camper vans, trains, slow boats, long tail boats, speed boats, ferries, hitchhiking, motorbikes, back of pickup trucks, cargo vans, bicycles, dune buggies, sandboards, skateboards, hiking, swimming, cliff jumping,…

How Much Does It Cost To Travel Around the World?

This post is all about the numbers. Have you ever wondered… “How much does it cost to travel around the world?” Check out the facts behind our journey around the globe! WHO WE MET We met people from 67 countries, covering over one third of the world’s nations, including Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bermuda,…

One Year Later

For an update on this post, check out Two Years Later One year ago, we spent the last of 400 days of travel by treating ourselves to a Hilton Hotel and a steak dinner. What awaited me back home was totally unknown, and wasn’t even contemplated in my head. Travel had taught, or forced me,…

Dear Anthony

Dear Anthony, I’m currently sitting in the back of a bus next to a Buddhist monk somewhere in southern Laos. It feels like I’m a million miles away from home, in distance, surroundings and in comfort, but for some reason as I stare out the window at the bright full moon in the sky, I…

New Friends in New Places

Through my experiences after two months on the road,  I quickly learned the people you encounter in the locations you visit will leave a lasting impression just as much as the destination itself.  These new friends you meet can greatly enhance your time spent somewhere and will leave you with memories you won’t forget.  Experiencing…

Facing Hardship on the Road

Life on the road provides us with unrivaled adventures we can only experience by taking the leap to start our journey.  But what will we miss from our familiar lives? Upon departing for a trip into the unknown we try to be conscious of the sacrifices we’ve made and the life moments back home that…

It’s Go Time

Somehow over a year has flown by since we made the decision to leave everything to travel.  Somehow we are 2 sleeps away from taking off to Rome, and beyond.  The realness of this has increased a notch with each passing day.  After saying goodbye to work 2 weeks ago, Nick and I tried to…

Down the Final Stretch

After over a year in the making, I gave my two weeks notice to my job today.   It felt like a load was taken off of my shoulders. This is a company that I used to work for during summers in between college and I have been involved with for almost a third of…

Full Speed Ahead

Today was my first day of work in Midtown Manhattan at my summer office job. Three days ago I was dancing until the sun came up at a music festival. One week ago I was at the tail end of a 900-mile drive from New York to Tennessee. Two weeks ago I was in the…

The Long Road to World Traveller

Would you believe that up until my 18th birthday, I had only been on a plane one time in my life?  That first time in the sky was when my parents brought my sister and I to Disney World in Orlando, Florida.  It was April of 1990 and I was three and a half years…