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HoneyTrek

Welcome to HoneyTrek! We are Mike & Anne, a couple who left on a honeymoon around the world in January of 2012...and never came home! Instead, we’ve dedicated the last 13 years to exploring the globe and sharing the best of our travel advice with adventurers like you! We love surfacing off-the-track destinations, unique accommodations, big adventures, sustainability successes, and the human stories that make each place so special. Thanks for subscribing to our monthly travel dispatch and see you on the road!

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🏝️ Best Australian State, Worst Island in Vietnam, Chiang Mai: The Local Way, Glamping Cambodia's Cardamom Rainforest & more from our 3-month Oz & SEA trip!

HoneyTrek Travel Newsletter - Vol. 221 - Day #5,303 - July 30th, 2026 Reader, With an insatiable desire to explore new destinations and only half the world’s countries (91) under HoneyTrek’s belt, it’s not in our nature to go back to the same place twice. But our recent return to Australia, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam after 13 years was a reminder of how much time can transform a place and how much better you understand it with a second visit. We no longer felt the need to rush around and...

Glamping around the world

HoneyTrek Travel Newsletter - Vol. 220 - Day #5,200 - April 18th, 2026 Reader, Hitchhiking across French Guiana, marching in Suriname’s 50th Anniversary Parade, living in Amerindian villages in Guyana’s rainforest, and exploring Colombia’s colonial cities and glamping retreats, the second half of our South America trip was action-packed. We had so many wonderful experiences and tens of thousands of photos to cull from the second half of the journey, and we are excited to finally wrap them up...

HoneyTrek Year in Review & South America Tips

HoneyTrek Travel Newsletter - Vol. 219 - Day #5,101 - January 9, 2026 Reader, 2025 was a record-breaking year of travel in HoneyTrek Land. Exploring 29 countries across Europe, Africa, the Middle East, North America, and South America, we took on the world with as much gusto and gumption as the day we left on our honeymoon. Why such a whirlwind tour? We’ve been diligently researching our next book on The World’s Best Glamping Destinations and trying our darndest to experience as many leading...

5000-Day Honeymoon

HoneyTrek Travel Newsletter - Vol. 218 - Day #5,009 - October 9th, 2025 Reader, we have officially crossed 5,000 days on our HoneyTrek! That’s 13.7 years continuously traveling without a homebase. That may sound a bit crazy (sometimes it feels that way, too), but no matter where we are on earth, we always find ourselves at home and among family in every culture we meet. Seven continents and 91 countries later, the beauty, knowledge, and kindness in the world inspire us to keep exploring…and...

Africa top to bottom

HoneyTrek Travel Newsletter - Vol. 218 - Day #4,923 - July 15, 2025 Reader, we just spent two months exploring the wilderness of Kenya, Namibia, Angola, and Botswana (next up is Zimbabwe, South Africa, and Eswatini), and we are buzzing from the experience. Most people think a trip to Africa is reserved for the wealthy, but we can tell you first-hand that it doesn’t have to be (just see our $100 safari). While we’d still highly recommend splashing out for conservation-focused safari camps with...

Europe Travel Tips from HoneyTrek

HoneyTrek Travel Newsletter - Vol. 217 - Day #4,838 - April 22, 2025 Reader, Happy Spring! Hope everyone is feeling some sunshine wherever you are. We’re certainly appreciating the warmth, after doubling down on winter this year and spending it in Scandinavia and the Baltic States. It was chilly, but soooo worth it for the snowy adventures, northern lights, and lack of tourists as we traveled from Swedish Lapland to Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Germany. To make this...

Comfortably Wild Second Edition

HoneyTrek Travel Newsletter - Vol. 216 - Day #4,688 - January 17, 2025 Reader, BIG NEWS! We just got the green light for a second edition of our glamping book, Comfortably Wild! While the first edition featured the best outdoor accommodations in North America, this round we are embarking on a seven-continent quest for the most mindful and inspiring getaways in the world! To reach this ambitious goal, our new publisher Simon & Schuster has given us 18 months to research, travel, experience,...

Southeast Asia Travel Guides

HoneyTrek Travel Newsletter - Vol. 217 - Day #4,688 - November 22, 2024 Reader, want to escape to a faraway tropical land right about now? Southeast Asia is a place that always warms our mind, body, and soul...so we're excited to share our favorite experiences and tips from our three months traveling there this year. Between this trip and our first, back in 2012, we’re proud to say we’ve been to every country in Southeast Asia, with our final one being an unexpected favorite and totally...