After trekking through the woods with our new Nikon D7000 around my neck, it donned on me, “I need a new camera strap!” The D7000, nicknamed “The Brick,” came with the standard Nikon camera neck strap. Too short, too narrow, and it says NIKON in big yellow letters. Other than it’s incredible...

To celebrate the one year anniversary of Travel-Junkies.com, our web hosting company (Just Host) charged our credit card $107. We were only expecting to be charged $60, and $107 was way too much to be paying for hosting a travel blog. I thought that this must be a mistake and we were billed wrong. So...

After a long grey Winter, Portlanders rechoice at seeing the first signs of Spring!

Unless you are Rolf Potts, you will need a bag when you travel. There are a lot of options available and it can be a tough decision to choose one; especially when it will carry everything you own. We currently use hard sided suitcases to travel with. These work well for travel, but take up a lot of space...

Living in the Pacific Northwest is not easy. It rains. It rains a lot! And when it is not raining, it is usually cloudy and grey. If you are going to do something outside, you need to be prepared for rain. If you are waiting for the rain to stop to do something, you may never do it. We live in an urban...

We have moved our website to a different web hosting company. As for why, I will post the details on that later. I was very nervous about the move and hope everything transferred correctly. There were a couple of problems, but thanks to the help of the new hosting company, our website is back up. If...

Today is Dr. Seuss’ birthday. To celebrate this day Sydney decided to dress up as one of the Seuss characters. Can you guess which one she is?