Forks and Jets

For our year on the road, we packed a lot of stuff into two relatively small backpacks. We spent a lot of time researching gear, reading packing lists and visiting REI — finally being confident about our whole inventory. Six months later some things have changed, but most have stayed the same. Here’s a quick look at what’s been working for us, and what hasn’t — including some notes about shopping for gear abroad. Read more

Team Rees is robbed at the Southeastern-most point of the European Continent! Read more

An idea of our budget and route in Peru — full of (we hope) good tips and ideas for a first-timer to the land of the Incas. Read more

Perú has amazingly diverse terrain and climates from dry grassy fields, to glaciers above the tree line, down into a nearly perpetual cloud forest (more meadow than forest). Even an actual tropical jungle with waterfalls and creeping vines. Here’s how to climb and fall over a 1,000 meters a day. Read more