Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
Back in Kansas City

Six months ago today we set foot in the United States for the first time in over a year and a half. It was 5:55am on a Tuesday morning. Back in Brazil The evening before, our hosts had given us a ride to the airport amid some other errands they had to run. Everything we … Read more

Handsome Dog on Rocky Beach

Yesterday we shared our best 10 moments from our first year as Vangabonds, and so today we think it’s only fair to fess up about the worst 10 as well. Except we couldn’t think of 10 moments that were all that deserving. We stretched ourselves, but 9 will have to do. As we devised this … Read more

Badlands at Sunrise

For the last year we have opened our lives to the people, environments, customs, and experiences of a range of different places within North and Central America. These various aspects of the locations we’ve temporarily called home have gifted us with countless incredible memories and extensive mental reminders of our journey thus far. Now, as … Read more

One Year on the Road: A Reflection

September 17th, 2013 | Posted by Brianna in About | Celebrations - (16 Comments)
Love-at-first-sight-iversary 2013

In the midst of all of our Darien Gap adventures, we failed to mention or celebrate a pretty meaningful milestone in our life – our one year travelversary. You know, a travelversary. It’s like an anniversary, except with travel. We flew from Panama to Colombia on the eve of our travelversary and woke up for … Read more

Darien Gap Map

We’ve been talking about the Darien Gap with increasing frequency over the last month or two. It has existed vaguely in our awareness for a couple of years, but we intentionally delayed any real focus on it so as to avoid unnecessary stress. That luxury has slowly slipped away now as we’ve driven closer and … Read more

Nomadic Interviews: Brianna and Ian of Vangabonds

Greetings to the fans of Never Ending Voyage who are checking out our site after reading today’s Nomadic Interview! Thanks so much for stopping by. Simon and Erin are a tremendous inspiration and resource for all digital nomads, location independents, world travelers, and allies, and we are quite honored to have had the opportunity to answer … Read more

Our Route through the Americas

We are ecstatic about our new route map! Through tripline.net, we have created a dynamic visual that allows both us and our followers to look back at where we’ve been and the route we took to get there including pictures, descriptions, links, and even a video-esque rendering of the journey. Please take a second to … Read more

Drive the Americas

November 8th, 2012 | Posted by Brianna in About | Canada | How To | Inspiration - (0 Comments)
Dinner and Drinks with Tom and Kelsey

I wish I remembered when we first started reading Drive the Americas.  It was my first, tangible-ish (as the internet now apparently constitutes tangibility to me) evidence that what we had decided to do was not completely out of left field or impossible – though at the time, I also wasn’t even aware that anyone … Read more

Week on the Move

September 26th, 2012 | Posted by Brianna in About | The Places We've Been | United States - (3 Comments)
Happy Couple

The last week has been a bit abnormal as we’ve hopped all over the place staying no longer than two nights in one spot since last Tuesday, the 18th. In case you haven’t been checking our map daily or popping in to see our current location at the top of our website, here’s the rundown … Read more

Hitting the Pavement

September 5th, 2012 | Posted by Ian in About | The Places We've Been - (1 Comments)
Vangabonds in front of the house in Knightdale

Welp, we are off. With much fanfare, we walked out the door of a completely empty house two days ago and got in a vehicle holding everything we own, pups included. We finished packing and cleaning, took a few pictures, then pulled out of the driveway like we have thousands of time before. As we … Read more