by Sarah Duff | Aug 10, 2015 | Travel philosophy
Want to be happier? It’s simple: buy less material things and spend more money on experiences, like travel. This route to contentment is backed up by science: over the past decade psychologists have done extensive research and studies into why experiences make us...
by Sarah Duff | Aug 5, 2015 | Around the world
I’ve been on the road for over a year now. Exactly 420 days ago I said goodbye to Cape Town and headed off on the biggest trip of my life with my boyfriend, Joe. Fifteen countries and tens of thousands of kilometres later, I feel like we’ve had a lifetime of...
by Sarah Duff | Jun 12, 2015 | Around the world, Europe, Iceland, Road trip
I’ve always wanted to visit Iceland, but I always saw it in the same league as Antarctica: the kind of place that I’d maybe get to later in my life, when I have more money. Like Antarctica, it seemed so far away and so expensive – a place you save up...
by Sarah Duff | Jun 11, 2015 | Around the world, Belize, Central America, Costa Rica, Mexico, North America
Starting out a trip through Central America with six weeks of learning to surf on the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica was a good beginning. From there on it just got better: road tripping around the bumpy roads of Costa Rica in a Suzuki Jimny, exploring Monteverde Cloud...
by Sarah Duff | Mar 16, 2015 | Around the world, Central America, Costa Rica
My big pledge this year is to be braver and make myself do the things that scare me most. My first challenge was set to be surfing. I was in Nosara for almost two months, a great surf spot in Costa Rica with a beach break and warm water (read more about how much I...
