Aside from sharing our travels and adventures on our blog, my other reason for starting IOWANDERERS was because I wanted to get organized around travel and share what has worked well. If you know me at all, you know that the word “preparation” isn’t a strong one. I have great intentions of packing ahead of The post 3 Simple Ways to Decompress Post-Travel and Get Back to Life After Your Trip appeared first on ..read more

We know that every year, once January hits, we want to get out of Iowa as soon as humanly possible. As the new year started we began getting more snow, colder temps, and started feeling trapped as parents to a one year old with nowhere to go in the middle of the pandemic so we The post A Sweet Escape to Sante Fe appeared first on ..read more

On April 4, 2020 we began our family's quest from Alaska to Argentina... one step, one pedal stroke, one gallon of gas at a time. The post The Pan American Highway Quest: Our Family’s Journey to See the World appeared first on ..read more

I’ll never forget one of our first “in-home” dates where Zach and I spent an evening drinking wine and listing out all the places we wanted to travel around the world. We both love traveling and adventuring (hence the blog) and knew that our future would include a lot of it. Four years later and The post Tackling Student Loans Once + For All: Prioritizing the Present for Future Travels + Goals appeared first on ..read more

Van life (or #vanlife) is something that a lot of our generation has been pursuing, either as weekend warriors exploring the country or as ways to live on the go and avoid the high costs of rent in certain cities. And if you haven’t do yourself a favor and check out that hashtag on Instagram, The post A Review: Highway One in Escape Campervan appeared first on ..read more

Alright, I’ll be honest. I’m highly aware that investing in our future is a good idea, but we really love traveling and we’re pretty motivated to pay off all of our student loans as quickly as possible. We’re on track to pay off over $18000 in 2019! All that said, we really haven’t dove deep The post A Simple Investment Option: Acorns appeared first on ..read more

When we started this little blog a few years ago, my intention was to document our travels and share other Iowan’s travels in this space to create inspiration. I’ve found that every micro or major trip has given me a new outlook. On life, on city development, on ideas that matter, on new foods I The post IOWANDERERS Version 2.0 appeared first on ..read more

There are few countries that pack a punch the way Ecuador does. Locals often brag that you can have breakfast in the Amazon, lunch in the Andes mountains and dinner on the Pacific coast. Roughly the size of Oregon it’s eastern border is the steamy Amazon jungle and from there to its Pacific coastline and The post A Few Days in Quito appeared first on ..read more

Do you live in Des Moines or ever swing by for some weekend shopping? Make sure to add Active Endeavors to your list, especially if you’re looking for active apparel or other goods. We recently interviewed the owner of AE, Jason Juehring and can’t wait for you to learn more about this local retail store The post Active Endeavors: Meet the Owner, Jason Juehring appeared first on ..read more

Hey, Iowanderers! Have you met Matt Scott of Iowa Parklands? After meeting him at Active Endeavors at a pop-up market, we knew we wanted to introduce him to all of you! Follow along to hear about Iowa Parklands from Matt himself… I was born in Des Moines and moved to Ankeny when I was in The post Explore Iowa Parklands with Matt Scott appeared first on ..read more