Guided trips
From Ruins to Retail Therapy: Our Final Days in Peru
After our highly ambitious “let’s casually hike into Machu Picchu like we’re in a Patagonia...
How We Accidentally Took the Hard Way to Machu Picchu
Wow. What a day. It began, as all great adventures do, with someone cheerfully announcing...
Where Pachamama Said “Stay Longer” (and My Boots Said “Absolutely Not”)
I wasn’t about to come all the way to Peru and not hike at least...
Holding My Line at the Edge of Crater Lake
We finally reached the part of the trip that had sold us from the start—Crater...
Riding into Bend with the Eye of the Tiger
By Day Three, the Backroads crew had logged some serious miles. Let’s just say there...
Spandex, Baby Alpacas, Headwinds, and oh a little fire.
Every Backroads trip begins the same way: standing in a hotel lobby scanning the crowd...
Wrapping Up Quebec
Our last full day of hiking began with a little thrill ride—courtesy of the Backroads...
Charlevoix: Waterfalls, Cheese, and Cows with Better Hair Than Mine
By day three, Mom and I were pros at packing up with our Backroads crew...
