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Raquel Karstens

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How to Get to Machu Picchu

  • Posted on April 7, 2018April 7, 2018
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  • byRaquel Karstens
How hard is it to get to Machu Picchu? It sounds pretty difficult when you read about it online… “You must buy tickets three months in advance… The only way…
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Shipping Across the Darien Gap

  • Posted on January 22, 2018January 22, 2018
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  • byRaquel Karstens
Intro If you’re traveling by car along the panam, you’re bound to hear about the Darien Gap. Shipping across the Darien Gap is the biggest, and possibly most widely known…
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Our Top 5 Places to Visit in Mexico

  • Posted on December 24, 2017July 27, 2018
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  • byRaquel Karstens
Mexico is a large Latin American country known for its diverse landscape of mountains, deserts, and jungles. It was our first country after the U.S. on our way down the…
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How Much Does it Cost to Overland for a Year?

  • Posted on December 19, 2017December 24, 2017
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  • byRaquel Karstens
How much does it cost to overland for a year? This is a very common question we get. We’ve only been traveling for three months now, but I can give…
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How to Plan an Overland Trip

  • Posted on December 19, 2017October 9, 2018
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  • byRaquel Karstens
So, you want to be an overlander, huh? Well, you’re about to take it to another level and hopefully never want to look back! One of the things that we…
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Is Overlanding Hard? 5 Stressors

  • Posted on December 19, 2017December 19, 2017
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  • byRaquel Karstens
Is overlanding hard? In short, yes and no (I know). Yes, because it requires a lot of preparation , planning, and compromising. No, because there are a lot of resources…
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Cold Feet

  • Posted on December 19, 2017December 19, 2017
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  • byRaquel Karstens
Week one of overlanding started when we left Thousand Palms, CA where we said goodbye to David’s parents. They have been an immense help getting our Landcruiser ready for live-in…
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Glacier Kayaking in Alaska

  • Posted on June 21, 2017October 17, 2018
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  • byRaquel Karstens
We got lucky. They said that most days in Seward are rainy. Our guide was pleased that today was a sunny, clear, beautiful day. Early that morning we met at…
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We Put in Our 30 Day Notice

  • Posted on June 6, 2017November 28, 2017
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  • byRaquel Karstens
Things are staring to feel real… we put in our 30 day notice for our rental house. We’ve been living here for about 2 years now and we’ve loved it…
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Carlsbad Flower Field

  • Posted on April 19, 2017September 1, 2017
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I finally went to the Carlsbad flower field today! I had been wanting to go to them for two years now, but I kept missing the window of opportunity from…
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Lost For Days
Overlanding the PanAmerican highway in our Landcruiser.
  • 6 years ago, I was stuck in a daydream at my desk. It might’ve been that I’d just seen “Walter Mitty” or it might’ve been fate calling from deep down.. but I jumped on Facebook to see that my brother posted one of those freak plane deals 👉$200 round trip flights to Peru👈 and I clicked. .
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I’ve told this story a million times, so you all know where it’s going. All these years later, I’m still here. Sometimes it feels like I never came back from that trip. Never came back to reality. Am I running away? Or stepping into what I’m meant to be? You guys are the wrong people to ask cause I’m sure it’d be a unanimous Keep Going 🙌 ! 🤘! . .
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About a month ago, I jumped into a cut out hole in a frozen river. I look back at this photo with intense nostalgia. It might be my fav photo of me ever. If only I could go back to depressed me 6 years ago and show him this picture. Slowly lean over and whisper in my ear how much I got paid for the job (equivalent of 6 mo at that office) . . .
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It’s been nearly 4 years of full time jumping into scary places. Nonstop camera slinging, stomach dropping, catching my breath fun. Emphasis on the word: Nonstop. To thrvive into 2020, I need balance. (writing this from the bathtub after a day of construction 💆🏼‍♂️ 🛁 ) . .
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Check out @quinsvan for more construction. 🔨 . .
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  • Remembering the Seychelles 🚣🏻‍♀️ w/ @chelseakauai @carmellarose and @karmagawa. Unedited Mavic footage.
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  • There’s another world down here.
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  • One of the dreamiest swims out there, and the rest of the world thinks so too. Swipe to see the reality of how crowded this place gets. And they say this is the slow season. So to get a shot we wait for a moment between tour busses and still have to edit out a few people. Check the third slide for my Lightroom edit. It took about 15 min to get what I wanted on this one. .
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Just cause I know I’m gonna get this question - I don’t sell presets. I don’t use them because I subscribe to the idea that every photo needs something different. Editing is by far my least fav aspect of the job. In my last 100 posts, I’ve had to take out people like this 2 times, so this was one of the tougher and more intricate alterations I’ve done. My average edit time is about a minute. 🏊🏻‍♀️ @jess.wandering
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  • Driving in the Yucatan, there’s CENOTE signs everywhere... today that sign led us to someone’s backyard with a hole in the ground that opened up to this 👐
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  • It’s been a while since I’ve felt these butterflies behind the wheel. There’s nothing I have to do, but everything I want to do. We got 24 hrs till the first stop. I’ll take this shift, you can get some sleep.
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