It's a really exciting feeling to see one of your photos displayed on a big Instagram account like Budget Travel!
Yesterday we noticed that Budget Travel re-posted one of Kevin's photos of the northern lights in Norway. You can see the photo here.
Actually, this is the third photo that Budget Travel's Instagram account has re-posted of ours! We feel so honored! Make sure to follow Websters Out on Intagram to see all of Kevin's beautiful travel-inspired photography!
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
We're BAAAACK!
Well, we made it back to the good old USA. We had a very warm welcome from the friendly customs staff and the concrete-industrial structure that is the Orlando International Airport.
Let's take a moment and compare the Airport in Oslo, Norway to the Airport in Orlando, Florida.
All the palm trees in the world couldn't help this airport look better or feel more welcoming. I thought Orlando was home to the "Happiest Place on Earth". This place did not feel very happy. Oslo, on the other hand, featured rich woods and clean architecture. It looked very modern and exotic for an airport. For those that remember, we started our journey in Oslo as well. It was exciting to begin and end there.
Now we are back in Portland, apartment and job hunting and trying to figure out what's next. When you have a life changing experience like this - selling all your belongings, traveling and living in different cultures - it's hard to come back to your old, normal life. We want a new life and don't want to fall into the same old habits as before. We want to live more simply and live a healthier lifestyle. We don't want to get wrapped up in American consumerism. How do we do that?
Right now, honestly, I'm not sure. But I'm working to figure it out. If you have any advice, I'd love to hear it.
In the mean time, enjoy some beautiful photos of the adventure!
Let's take a moment and compare the Airport in Oslo, Norway to the Airport in Orlando, Florida.
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| Oslo Gardermoen Airport |
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| Oslo Gardermoen Airport |
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| Orlando International Airport |
All the palm trees in the world couldn't help this airport look better or feel more welcoming. I thought Orlando was home to the "Happiest Place on Earth". This place did not feel very happy. Oslo, on the other hand, featured rich woods and clean architecture. It looked very modern and exotic for an airport. For those that remember, we started our journey in Oslo as well. It was exciting to begin and end there.
Now we are back in Portland, apartment and job hunting and trying to figure out what's next. When you have a life changing experience like this - selling all your belongings, traveling and living in different cultures - it's hard to come back to your old, normal life. We want a new life and don't want to fall into the same old habits as before. We want to live more simply and live a healthier lifestyle. We don't want to get wrapped up in American consumerism. How do we do that?
Right now, honestly, I'm not sure. But I'm working to figure it out. If you have any advice, I'd love to hear it.
In the mean time, enjoy some beautiful photos of the adventure!
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| Kevin Diving Into the Adriatic Sea |
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| Kevin Standing Next to a Tree in Portugal |
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| The Old and New Co-Exists in Lisbon, Portugal |
Thursday, June 26, 2014
Travel Inspiration
Need some travel inspiration? A reason to give it all up and go? Here are some of our favorite quotes that inspire us.
Quotes
"To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self.... And to venture in the hightest is precisely to be conscious of one's self."
- Soren Kierkegaard
"May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home."
- Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey
“One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast....a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it’s still here. So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, the lovely, mysterious, and awesome space. Enjoy yourselves, keep your brain in your head and your head firmly attached to the body, the body active and alive, and I promise you this much; I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those desk-bound men and women with their hearts in a safe deposit box, and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators. I promise you this; You will outlive the bastards.”
― Edward Abbey
― Edward Abbey
“I'd like to repeat the advice that I gave you before, in that I think you really should make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.
If you want to get more out of life, Ron, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty. And so, Ron, in short, get out of Salton City and hit the Road. I guarantee you will be very glad you did. But I fear that you will ignore my advice. You think that I am stubborn, but you are even more stubborn than me. You had a wonderful chance on your drive back to see one of the greatest sights on earth, the Grand Canyon, something every American should see at least once in his life. But for some reason incomprehensible to me you wanted nothing but to bolt for home as quickly as possible, right back to the same situation which you see day after day after day. I fear you will follow this same inclination in the future and thus fail to discover all the wonderful things that God has placed around us to discover.
Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon. You are still going to live a long time, Ron, and it would be a shame if you did not take the opportunity to revolutionize your life and move into an entirely new realm of experience.
You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only or principally from human relationships. God has placed it all around us. It is in everything and anything we might experience. We just have to have the courage to turn against our habitual lifestyle and engage in unconventional living.
My point is that you do not need me or anyone else around to bring this new kind of light in your life. It is simply waiting out there for you to grasp it, and all you have to do is reach for it. The only person you are fighting is yourself and your stubbornness to engage in new circumstances.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
If you want to get more out of life, Ron, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty. And so, Ron, in short, get out of Salton City and hit the Road. I guarantee you will be very glad you did. But I fear that you will ignore my advice. You think that I am stubborn, but you are even more stubborn than me. You had a wonderful chance on your drive back to see one of the greatest sights on earth, the Grand Canyon, something every American should see at least once in his life. But for some reason incomprehensible to me you wanted nothing but to bolt for home as quickly as possible, right back to the same situation which you see day after day after day. I fear you will follow this same inclination in the future and thus fail to discover all the wonderful things that God has placed around us to discover.
Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon. You are still going to live a long time, Ron, and it would be a shame if you did not take the opportunity to revolutionize your life and move into an entirely new realm of experience.
You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only or principally from human relationships. God has placed it all around us. It is in everything and anything we might experience. We just have to have the courage to turn against our habitual lifestyle and engage in unconventional living.
My point is that you do not need me or anyone else around to bring this new kind of light in your life. It is simply waiting out there for you to grasp it, and all you have to do is reach for it. The only person you are fighting is yourself and your stubbornness to engage in new circumstances.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
Saturday, June 7, 2014
Advice
“One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out.
Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast....a part-time crusader, a
half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and
your lives for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to
fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While
you can. While it’s still here. So get out there and hunt and
fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder
and explore the forests, climb the mountains, bag the
peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and
lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious
stillness, the lovely, mysterious, and awesome space. Enjoy
yourselves, keep your brain in your head and your head
firmly attached to the body, the body active and alive, and I
promise you this much; I promise you this one sweet victory
over our enemies, over those desk-bound men and women
with their hearts in a safe deposit box, and their eyes
hypnotized by desk calculators. I promise you this; You will
outlive the bastards.”
Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast....a part-time crusader, a
half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and
your lives for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to
fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While
you can. While it’s still here. So get out there and hunt and
fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder
and explore the forests, climb the mountains, bag the
peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and
lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious
stillness, the lovely, mysterious, and awesome space. Enjoy
yourselves, keep your brain in your head and your head
firmly attached to the body, the body active and alive, and I
promise you this much; I promise you this one sweet victory
over our enemies, over those desk-bound men and women
with their hearts in a safe deposit box, and their eyes
hypnotized by desk calculators. I promise you this; You will
outlive the bastards.”
Saturday, May 24, 2014
Cold Turkey
This photo was taken up in the mountains of Turkey. It was freezing. You can see the frost covering the trees!
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| Bundled Up |
When we were volunteering at the raw culinary school, the owner, Mehmet took all of us up to this mountain top.
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