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The simple way to record and share your travel adventures.

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Born and raised in Ridgetown, Ontario, Valerie Peltier pursued a career in interior design before realizing that her true love lived outside in the mountains. After completing her diploma for the Outdoor Adventure Naturalist Program, she moved on to explore Australia and New Zealand for two and half months. Her latest adventure involves instructing outdoor education to students along the Pacific Coast.

In her journal, Valerie goes on a six-week hiking journey through the North and South Islands of New Zealand. Along the way, she connects with the most breathtaking beauty and dramatic diversity that Mother Nature has to offer. Read more here, and follow Valerie @valeriepeltier.

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Savannah Ius was born in Vancouver to a Filipino mother and a father with an Italian last name -- so she’s been an international from the very beginning. Words and people inspire her, places intrigue her, and her love of trying just about any kind of food keeps her going. She firmly believes that you can tell a lot about people by how they react to a strange new food. Currently, she spends most of her free time reading, writing, and planning her upcoming wedding.

In this month’s feature, Savannah’s adventure begins and ends in Oslo, where she explores the city’s cultural, historic and culinary offerings. Her journey continues out west with hikes that bring us up close and personal with Norway’s majestic fjords. Read more here, and follow Savannah @savannahmius.

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When Quoc Doan was six, his family escaped from Vietnam by boat. During the turbulent stormy nights, the sight of monolithic ocean waves crashing on his tiny boat put fear into his heart. Yet his family survived the perilous journey and landed in a safe country. This instilled in him a sense of hope and fearlessness. From there on, Quoc has never been afraid to travel beyond his comfort zone. No chicken bus is too crowded, no hostel is too sketchy, and no country is off limits. A curiosity for new lands and culture pulls him forward. The ocean waves were conquerable after all.

In his journal, Quoc takes us on a chicken bus ride through eight Central American countries, where he gets up close and personal with the locals. Check out his stellar portraits and stories here, and follow Quoc @beginswithq.

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Naras Lapsys lives in the seaside suburb of Coogee in Sydney, Australia with his wife and two young daughters. Known as The Body Doctor, Naras has his own business as a longevity and anti-aging specialist. To prepare for the hardships of his trip, Naras spent six months getting back into kickboxing training, a sport he had all but given up for dead 20 years ago.

Naras’s journal is a day-to-day account of his time spent on the road, motorbiking through Kathmandu Valley in Nepal to the high plains and mountain passes of Tibet. At times the going got tough, but with the promise of witnessing the world’s highest peak, he kept forging on. Read about his adventure here, and follow Naras @narlap.

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Zachery Ely is in his mid-twenties and is only recently coming to terms with that. He was born and raised in Seattle and thinks that there are few finer places to live. His actions and some friends or family may describe him as adventurous but he’d deny the claim. Zach simply says yes to some adventurous opportunities. This is something he believes everyone can do. He has said no to plenty of adventurous opportunities as well. Relations are important to him. A relationship with Christ and a relationship with people who like to laugh. He also values a good scone and a cup of coffee. Oh, and burritos.

This journal is an attempt at an honest travel blog, leaning away from too many exaggerations of how good of a time one is having. Instead it’s a focus on what happened, sometimes it’s great and sometimes it sucks. It documents Zach and two of his best friends on a three and a half month bicycle trip from Seattle, Washington to Portland, Maine.

The goal of this all is for someone to read it and think: “These guys have no idea what they’re doing but seem to be enjoying it, maybe I'll do something like that.” Read more here, and follow Zach @zachely.

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Adam and Heather’s first conversation was about travel: her journey to Italy to study classics, and his camping trip across the American west. They cemented their relationship with a weeklong fly-fishing trip to Montana. Using the summer vacations provided by Heather’s teaching career, they’ve taken on long backpacking journeys through Italy, Alaska, Hawaii, and now Iceland.

The Westfjords of Iceland are rugged and remote, far off of the typical tourist trail. The centerpiece of their time there was a week spent hiking across a nature reserve, which is only inhabited in summer and only accessible by boat. But half of the adventure was just getting that far.

Read more about Adam and Heather’s Icelandic journey here. Also, be sure to check out their other outdoor escapes @adamandheather.

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Gary (‘Gaz’) Anson lives in Canberra, Australia. He is a part-time writer and, as you will see from his journal, a keen and often comic observer of the world around him. He has written and published a children’s story on Amazon, Grindelwinde’s Wood, and published poetry in The Canberra Times.

He recently returned from a forty-day trip trip to the UK, Italy and, his favorite place of all –- his ‘second home’ as he describes it -- Ireland. He decided each day to ‘snap’ a remarkable incident or scene, using his pen rather than a camera.

What he has written here, in Bonjournal, is a travelogue in the Japanese haibun tradition of recording in brief form, descriptions of places and events in both verse and prose. Follow him @gazanson.

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Born and raised in Peru, Jano Silva moved to the Washington DC area when he was 12 and has lived there ever since. Jano got his first taste of “real” travel in high school when he went to Spain with his mother and sister. If the traveling bug was planted in high school, then it fully took roots in college while he was studying abroad in England and Italy. After that, traveling became one of the main goals and joys of his life. When he’s not planning or obsessing about where he’ll go next, he’s usually day dreaming of the day when he can quit his 9-to-5 to become a full time wedding or travel photographer.

In his journal, Jano covers a lot of ground during a short trip to San Francisco, exploring the city and beyond into Oakland and the North Bay. From street art to meat cones, he takes in all the vibrant sights and flavors that Fog City’s neighborhoods have to offer.

Read his journal here, and check out his other stories, including his travels to India, @janosilva.

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Based in Singapore, you’ll likely find Bridget Goh sharing a good laugh with friends, enjoying a gourmet feast, or sitting in a cafe with a book. Though her father is a chef, Bridget sticks to eating rather than baking and cooking, choosing instead to pursue a career in law. She’s really into writing and photography because they’re things you don’t have to be good at to enjoy. And though she loves traveling with close friends, she also appreciates the spontaneity that traveling alone affords her.

In her journal, Bridget goes on a two-week journey that begins and ends in Kathmandu. In between, she soaks up all the local culture, good eats and picturesque landscapes that the Annapurna region has to offer, and discovers an appetite for adventure that she never knew she had.

Read her journal here, and check out her other travel stories @findingmomo.

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Isabelle Engler has called Taipei, Tokyo, Paris, and San Diego home, and is now living in San Francisco with her husband. She enjoys traveling, taking photos, and experimenting in the kitchen. You will likely find her carrying one too many cameras and trying new foods with her husband off the beaten path somewhere in the world. Visit her portfolio, Facebook, or Instagram, and say hello!

In her journal, Isabelle revisits her childhood hometown of Taipei, then explores the serene landscapes of Taiwan’s countryside, enjoying many gastronomic adventures along the way (warning: do not read this on an empty stomach!).

Read her journal here, and check out her other travel stories @isabelle.

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Last September, Trevor, Karly and Lauren set out on an amazing bike excursion through Europe. Their three-month adventure began just outside of Amsterdam, and continued through the Netherlands, Germany, the Czech Republic, Austria, Switzerland, France, Spain, and finally ended in Lisbon, Portugal. Their journals capture the deep connections they made with the landscapes and people they encountered along the way.

Trevor and Karly Borden Trevor and Karly Borden are newlyweds who have the audacity to think that the world is not as mean as the news would have you think, and that people are more good than bad. In their spare time they write and perform folk music, and arrange custom adventures and safaris to Tanzania, East Africa. If you would like to go on safari, visit Old Mountain (the photo gallery alone is worth a look!). You can also follow Trevor, who is now based in Austin, Texas, on Instagram. Read their journal here, and follow Trevor at @trevorborden. Lauren Abrahamian Raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Lauren Abrahamian moved to California to study Sociology. Great friends, family and year-round sunshine have kept her there for the past 8 years. About a year and a half ago, she fell in love with biking as a means of travel and went on her first trip down the California coast in 2013. Lauren feels that biking allows you to connect to a place unlike any other form of travel -- you intimately learn about every hill and turn of a landscape, you’re forced to rely on locals for help and guidance, and your comfort zones are stretched to the max. She also loves the feeling of an unplanned adventure, which she enjoys sharing on Instagram. Read Lauren’s journal here, and follow her at @laurenabe.

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Studying abroad is one of the most enriching opportunities students can experience during their academic careers. To give you a small glimpse into the life of a student overseas, we’re featuring Emily Liu’s journal about Shanghai.

Hailing from Los Angeles, California, Emily Liu is a junior at NYU double-majoring in Media, Culture and Communication, and East Asian Studies. The funny thing is, she hasn’t been at NYU for a year now! When she was given the opportunity to study abroad for a year as a Global Media Scholar, Emily packed her bags, bid Manhattan adieu, and first headed to Prague for her sophomore spring semester. From riding a donkey along the coast of Santorini, to climbing 392 stairs to see Sun Yat-sen’s Mausoleum in Nanjing, Emily has done a fair amount of adventuring since she made the decision to study away. She’s now furthering her studies at NYU’s new portal campus in Shanghai for her fall semester.

In her journal, Emily starts off on the quieter side at Shanghai’s contemporary art museums, and slowly escalates to rowdier events, including crowded ancient streets and an electronic music festival.

Read her journal here, and follow her other journeys @emiliu74.

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Thank you to everyone who participated in our Fall Break Contest -- we were delighted and inspired by your adventures both near and far! Also, a special thanks to our contest partners Streetwise New York, Brazilia Cafe, Lomography, and The Moth.

Congratulations to Fall Break Contest winner Liliana Reynoso! Liliana, who was born and raised in Santa Rosa, California, is in her third year at New York University, studying Nutrition and Diabetics. She enjoys baking, cooking and traveling, and more recently, has taken an interest in photography. In her spare time, you’ll find Liliana trying out new recipes from Pinterest, and going on day adventures in New York City.

In her journal, Liliana experiences autumn in Vermont, including vibrant fall foliage, crisp walks around Montpelier, and a gigantic bucket of Ben & Jerry’s.

Check out her journal here, and follow her @LilianaR106.

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Although born and raised in London, Jessamine Barnieh has still managed to find herself in an earthquake, a volcano eruption, and an airplane emergency landing. Her recent adventures have been less dramatic but just as exciting, including a move from London to Hong Kong in 2013. In an effort to get to know her new city, Jessamine started a Project 365 (#jess_a_day on Instagram), taking a photo-a-day of the things she saw and places she explored in her first year. As a freelance copywriter, Jessamine is equally skilled with words as she is at photography, and likes to document her adventures on her blog.

In this featured journal, Jessamine crossed the Pacific for her first ever visit to the West Coast. Her eight-day trip to Los Angeles is jam packed with awesome food, cultural, and architectural explorations, and of course, a day trip Disneyland.

Check out her journal here, and follow her @HelloJesso.

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Based in Melbourne, Australia, Ildefonso Ogdoc grew up in the tropical town of Cebu, Philippines. He’s always been fond of going places, and wants to see as much as he can of this big world. When University didn’t work out for him, he went on to chase his dreams of getting out there. While he works mainly as a bartender, he’s also a huge foodie who enjoys taking photographs of people, places and things. In this Featured Journal, Doc explores the southern coast of Sri Lanka, through its culinary delights, local culture and ancient sites.

Read his journal here, and follow him at @gofargetlost. His Sri Lanka: Highlands journal is also a delightful read.

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Exploring Big Sur with our friend Kane.

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Big Sur, California.