Welcome to Mapless Adventures

ADVENTURERS! Welcome to Mapless Adventures! An adventure travel blog that specializes in sharing personal experiences, mixed with guides, travel tips, teaching abroad and a little bit of history. My name is Nicole, the person behind these crazy Mapless Adventures and while I started this website back in 2012 as a solo-female traveler and it has now shifted into a travel couple blog. 

My boyfriend and I met 3 years ago and since then, we have spent those years traveling both internationally and nationally through roadtrips. We have traveled to roughly 5 countries, a few Caribbean islands and 13 US National Parks. Currently, we are planning a HUGE 8-week European Summer adventure!

Personally, I’ve had the opportunities to travel to 33 countries/territories and counting.  While I’ve started as a budget backpacking, together we are more of a Mid-Range Travel Couple. 

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Growing up in America, we learned young to set goals and have plans. I was living my life according my plan: go to college, go to graduate school, get a job. Totally and complete mapped OUT.

Reality hit and my life came to a screeching halt at my graduate school graduation in 2011. What the hell do I do now? It was here that Mapless Adventures was born.

Mapless Adventures is more than traveling without maps; it’s about living life without a map. I realized that I didn’t want to follow a traditional plan and check boxes off with age. I wanted to take on whatever adventure as they came without fear of missing a step. The good, the bad, the ugly. While it’s not longer, JUST ME, this is still our story. Our life. Our Mapless Adventures.

However, to be quite honest, traveling for us is less “mapless” as our travel lifestyle is more mid-range. While we do “plan” out where we stay and our transportation, our daily travel lives continue to be mapless and less planned out.

I hope you find these stories combined with travel guides, tips and history helpful as you venture through your own Mapless Adventures!

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Our European Summer: From Planning to Arrival
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