A good pair of hiking shoes/trail runners can make a world of difference when you’re out on the trail. Today we’re reviewing one of our most favorite pieces of gear we’ve ever had the pleasure of knowing: The La Sportiva Bushido II’s. They’ve carried us up many mountains and through countless miles on the John Muir Trail!

Last year’s gift guide focused on environmentally friendly gifts, while I will always have that in the back of my mind when giving gifts, this year I wanted to focus mostly on small businesses.

Finding the right vehicle for Overlanding, Vanlife, Touring or Road Trips of any kind can be a really daunting task. There’s so much out there making it hard to know where to start! Over time we’ve developed a technique to help bring focus to our search.

Hey there Friends! The day has finally come for our first ever official gear review! Being gear heads we spend a lot of time reading reviews and selecting the perfect gear for our needs, which is why we’re so excited to finally contribute some of our own insight! First up, Hydro Flask: Trail Series!

We wanted to write a little blog post detailing some of long time and new favorites that will be on sale May 15th - May 25th. If you’re anything like us we’re using this downtime to plan out our adventures as things start to open back up! Now is the perfect time to round out your gear collection for everything you need to go further and stay longer this summer!

This is a blog post/video that we’ve been looking forward to sharing for some time now! Today we’re going to be covering all of the edits that we’ve done to our home on wheels over the last year of living to it.

There is no better time to read something that inspires or lifts your spirits! So we’ve decided to put together a reading list of our favorite books! Most you will find are real adventure/travel inspired. Go figure! 

Today we’re going to be talking through the installation of a new dash mount for our 2019 Toyota Tundra! For a long time, we’ve been looking for a way to get our truck’s dash organized because we carry a few different electronic devices while we’re driving in the cab.

It feels only fitting that we should be environmentally minded when we’re shopping for gear needed for going out into nature for recreation! That way we’re ensuring that we’re taking care of our beautiful resources for generations to come while still getting to enjoy them today! In my own personal quest for a more sustainable lifestyle, I’ve found that our clothing and gear choices are a huge area of opportunity to improve on that frequently overlook, so I wanted to take some time to dive into the details and learn how we can make more informed decisions when it comes to buying clothes and gear for the outdoors!

I’ve found gift guides to be really helpful in discovering new things that I otherwise might not know about, so I figured… Being one that loves gear, does research on these things for fun, and loves sharing the things that genuinely make a difference in our lives… I should make a holiday gift guide! So here goes nothing!

By now I think you have gathered that we love to hike and talk about gear. So when REI reached out and asked us to put some gear to the test it felt like a match made in heaven! We decided to make a real adventure out of it!

We’ve now been living in Roxy for 9 months now! Crazy! Which, I know, makes this 6-month review video a little tardy. However, a lot of people have been curious about what we think about our build after living in it for a while.

I’ve recently been asked this: “Any advice on cooler weather hiking clothes for women?” I’ll do you one better, and talk through the gear for both men and women! I figured that this would be some helpful information to share with you guys.

Hey guys! This is sadly the final installment of our John Muir Trail gear guide! Things will go back to their usual speed here on the blog, but we’d love to hear if there are any topics that you’re interesting in us covering in the future.

In this installment of our JMT gear guide we dive in deep to take a closer look at our trail wardrobe! Enjoy!

It’s been nearly a month since we completed the John Muir Trail… I have no idea where the time has gone! This is the final installment of our written and video log from the trail! We still have two more gear guides, food and extras, coming out later this week and next week!

In this installment of our JMT gear guide we dive in deep to take a closer look at our trail wardrobe! Enjoy!

Hey Friends! Thank you so much for all of the great feedback about our JMT videos and posts! It’s been a blast reliving the experience as we prepped all of these for you all! This is the second installment of the daily log which is a blog post containing photos paired with day 8 from my written journal, as well as the video daily logs that we recorded while we were on trail. Enjoy day 6-10!

Hey guys! We spent so much time doing research on our gear for the JMT, so we figured it would be helpful if we put together a video detailing our gear list, why we brought it, and our thoughts on it post trail!