Chris and Jodi Axel's Travels

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If you found your way to our blog you are probably either a friend or family who followed a link –  thanks for following us!     Or if you are a stranger, or somehow did a google search on one of our travel destinations while researching for your own trip –  hope you enjoy the blog and your trip!

We’re not “real” bloggers but we enjoy traveling when we are in our off-season for work.    Some years we can’t travel or don’t go anywhere that seems worth blogging about,  but some years we have an extended adventure and love to share it!

Links to a few of our past trips and blogs are here too:

• 2022-2023 winter:   Jeju Olle, South Korea.   Yippee!   We get to go on a walking adventure again –  this time to the Jeju Olle trail,  on Jeju Island, South Korea!    This is a well organized trail with 270 miles that goes in a circle all the way around the island,  plus some side-trips to smaller islands.
• 2021-2022 winter:   We thought we could go back to hiking the Camino Portuguese until in late August their covid requirements included tests every 3 days to be able to to check in to hotels (unless you are a national citizen with your QR vaccination code).  Being vaccinated but with no QR code (and we couldn’t get one since their system didn’t accept non-Portuguese citizens yet),  we made alternate plans and bought a campervan and traveled the southwest United States!   (links coming soon)
• 2020-2021 winter:   Covid is in full swing and plans for everyone have had to change.   We make lemonade out of lemons and rent a house with a friend down in Corpus Christi, Texas for some kiteboarding and semi-covid-getaway.   (links coming soon)
• 2019-2020 winter:  If only we had known what the world and covid had ahead,  we may have done a bigger adventure this year.   But,  we figured it was time to stay at home and finish our 2+ year bathroom project,  plus a fun return to a favorite kiting spot!
• 2018 Nov/Dec:  Camino Portuguese and a a few side trips including Fatima and the giant surf waves in Nazare!
• 2017-18:    30 day circuit trek around Annapurna range in Nepal  seriously we can’t say enough great things about this area and the people who live here
• 2016-17:   Turks and Caicos Kiteboarding (too lazy and didn’t do a blog)
• 2015-16:   Spain Camino de Santiago   a”winter camino”:   traveling after the busy season in December and January.   Approx 550 miles of walking from the border of France to the western ocean across northern Spain on this religiously historic and cultural route
• 2014-15 (no link) Life gets in the way:  too much work remodeling houses, back surgery, all that fun stuff
• 2013-14 link to Patagonia Chile hiking and Kayaking,  with a stop in Costa Rica on the way home!
• 2012-13  Rwanda Africa trekking to mountain gorillas, climbing the high point of Rwanda, self-led safari camping in the national park (before they reintroduced lions!)
• 2010-11:  link to Whistler Ski Bumming
• 2009  link to Bicycling the California coast San Francisco to San Diego

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