Lazy Voyaging is about avoiding extremes and maximizing fun

• Tell their manservant to have the jet prepared to fly to their private island.
• Purchase and/or rent Monaco for vacation
• Occasionally ask themselves what the ordinary people are doing right now.
• Back 30 feet of twine in a small backpack, grab a pocket knife, flint, and compass, and then walk to Iceland.
• Fight grizzlies for their food.

Instead, The Lazy Voyager is for people like my wife and me; slightly out of shape adventurous travelers who enjoy a good hike while camping as much as we like a night on a new town.

We both love to travel and experience all this world has to offer, but we also have to work for a living and neither one of us is going to fight a grizzly any time soon.

Instead, we do stuff like this:

Traveling by motorcycle, my wife and I arrive in Jacumba, California – a rustic little town in the middle of nowhere whose only claim to fame is a hot spring. We ride out to a stone wonderland where an eccentric artist spent years carving the natural stone of the landscape into faces, animals, abstract and other things. We wander aimlessly for a few hours hiking through the desert photographing the carvings. Then we ride back to the tiny town where we check into the rustic Motel, enjoy the hot spring, and dine on some surprisingly good Italian food.

After saving all year for the trip, my wife and I arrive in Dublin, Ireland, and take a tour in a double-decker bus where we get a good overview of both the history and the layout of downtown Dublin. Then we spend the rest of day being complete tourists as we hit several of the “must see” hot spots including Trinity College, the Temple Bar area, and a tour of the Jameson’s Distillery. That night we hit a pub and enjoy some take away fish and chips on our way back to the hotel.

As you can see from the examples, we don’t sit on our butts all day, but we also don’t climb the Matterhorn. Further, you’ll never hear a story of ours start with the words, “After purchasing the first class tickets on a sudden whim…” This isn’t because we can’t (thought to be honest, we can’t…) it’s because we don’t want to.

There is a whole world out there that is just waiting to be explored in what we call, the “Lazy Voyagers Way”. And that way is fiscally responsible, physically engaging, but ultimately about enjoying one’s self to the utmost possible.

We camp and hike as often as we stay at a hotel and wander a city, but either way it is about experiencing the moment with fun, joy, and a sense of wonder.