Steph and Ben's Travels

In mid-September, we spent three days hiking the Thousand Island Lake loop in the Ansel Adams Wilderness. Read our trip report  and check ou...

Taken from our campsite at Ediza Lake in the Ansel Adams Wilderness. Read our trip report . Scroll to the right to see the whole thing. ...

I had been hoping for months that I would be able to go to the Cape with my family this summer. I wasn't sure I would make it with the...

At times while planning this trip, I feared we might not make it to the Alps. After I booked a hotel room in the town of Mittenwald, I rec...

Taken from the top of the Karwendel cable car, in the Bavarian Alps near Mittenwald. Scroll to the right to see the whole thing.

When we started planning this trip, Ben requested that we visit a brewery where the monks make the beer. Many of the old beer-brewing mona...