Chronicling the adventures of an elite experiential marketing team. From the nine years on the road to new adventures in Portland, OR. We are the Roving Van Gelders and we can’t wait to see you down the road.
Every job has its perks, mine of course is the travel. At least we see it as a perk. So many of our favorite places were tour stops. Often we don’t take all of our vacation time because the tours end up in a location that we find interesting and enjoy our downtime. Whistler is... Continue Reading →
Each year I publish a list of all the states we visit and note when any are a first time. Next January there will be another one nocked off of list of 50. I have now been to Montana, stopping in Missoula. This leave just Alaska, Hawaii and Idaho for me: Josh has just Alaska... Continue Reading →
While we usually stay at major hotel chains; every once in a while we will try something different. Usually this happens when the "different" is the only option in town. In our experience Bed & Breakfasts have small rooms and we can't follow the meal times because of work schedule. The more fun places to... Continue Reading →
Now that we have gone fully "barefoot", what I mean is that I no longer use tennis shoes anymore, just my Merrell Barefoot shoes; it was time for another test. As you might recall we somewhat foolishly took a 4 mile hike before we were ready, well weeks later our feet and muscles have been... Continue Reading →
I feel like a bad blogger, I was so excited to talk about Asheville, NC that I lost a little focus on my Travel Tuesday post. I was planning to talk about how we sit around at times and imagine what it would be like to live in a town again. To have friends over,... Continue Reading →
If you looked at the images here before reading, you're probably wondering why I'm taking photos of shoes. Especially since I don't often promote products here. This isn't really a promotion but more of an explanation, we have started going Barefoot. I'm sure you have seen those funky shoes that go between people's toes around,... Continue Reading →
I'm thrilled to share with you even more shots from our vacation. Shots that were lost and have been found! For lunch during the full day dive trip we stopped at Half Moon Caye Natural Monument Park. This is home to a bird sanctuary for the Red Footed Booby. Josh was kind enough to tromp... Continue Reading →
Last week we had a little time off, the tractor needed routine maintenance and due to the tour's tight schedule we had to schedule a break to make this happen. So thus we get time off. We chose to spend the entire week, yes 7 whole days in one place. That one place was Mobile,... Continue Reading →
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