Who’s Behind Hiking & Road Trips?
Hey there! Allow us to introduce ourselves: I’m Dani (pink hair and the main writer for Hiking and Road Trips), and here is my wife Ally (on the right)! We met while working in I.T. and instantly clicked with our goofiness and love for the outdoors. Now, we work remotely, which grants us the freedom to take the trips we want and not have to plan around being in an office all the time. Becoming location independent like this literally changed our lives.
Even though we love to travel various times throughout the year, our home base is in the Pacific Northwest. Road trips and exploring are what actually led us to our home in the PNW. We are both from the Midwest and lived there for most of our lives until an adventure led us to relocate 2100 miles across the country at the end of 2020.
The Mission
We both love the outdoors, whether it’s on a hike, run, with our pets, or touring a new place we discovered after taking a wrong turn on a road trip. It’s amazing how much you have yet to discover, even in your own backyard (and not). So much so that we thought we would create this site dedicated to just that: the unexplored road or trail right in front of you.
There’s something beyond the word “magical” that happens when we’re in the calm of nature and the open road. Its clarity and connection mixed with the excitement for exploration, both of which always end up bringing us back to ourselves, back to the earth, and back to our spirit. As avid hikers, road trippers, and travelers, we wanted a platform to share our experiences and bring together other adventurers to share theirs too.
Here you’ll learn about hiking trails and tips, road trip ideas and itineraries, national parks, day trips, and niche adventures, but they’ll all be pretty focused to a specific area or route so you can pick and choose based on where you are by using the search function on the homepage.
Side note: Not everything on Hiking and Road Trips is written by us. You’ll also read about the trails and trips others have embarked on (and can also submit your own).
So, if you have a hike you recently did, a road trip story or itinerary, big accomplishment, and anything outdoors-related you want to share, drop us an email at hikingandroadtrips@gmail.com or fill out this form.
đź’™ Dani & Ally