ABOUT WANDERINGCAPES
Hello & Welcome
Wanderingcapes is a travel blog about slow travel, road trips and outdoor adventures that have shaped our life together.
We’re Nora and Trevor, a married couple from Germany and California, sharing honest stories, original photography and practical advice from the places we explore.
Our Story
Hi there! We’re Nora and Trevor, the couple behind Wanderingcapes. Nora grew up in Germany and Trevor in California, where we met in 2013 while Nora was working as an au pair. What began with weekend trips around California and the western US gradually grew into a shared curiosity about how life looks and feels elsewhere.
Life later took us to Hamburg, where we got married, began new jobs and travelled through Europe whenever we could. We had built a comfortable life, but staying in one place indefinitely never felt quite right. During another long, dark and rainy winter in northern Germany, it became clear that we were ready for a bigger change.
In 2018, we left our jobs, sold most of our belongings and booked one-way tickets to New Zealand. What followed became much more than a long trip. It reshaped how we thought about work, travel and what we wanted from everyday life. It also taught us to trust our own choices, even when they did not follow a conventional path.
Since then, our life has included longer stays in New Zealand and Portugal, road trips across Europe and extended periods in Germany and California. We are still figuring out exactly where home is for us. For now, it is less a fixed place than a feeling we create wherever we happen to be.
" Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home."
— Matsuo Bashō
How We Travel
Longer Stays
We enjoy settling into a place long enough to move beyond the obvious highlights. Longer stays give us time to find a routine, notice local rhythms and experience more of what everyday life actually feels like.
Road Trips
Road trips give us the freedom to explore a region at our own pace and choose the scenic route when it is worthwhile. We plan enough to give the journey direction, but leave room for detours, unexpected stops and places that deserve more time.
Time Outdoors
Time outdoors is at the heart of many of our travels. Whether we are hiking in the mountains, following a coastal trail or simply exploring on foot, being outside helps us connect more closely with a place.
“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Wanderingcapes began during our time in New Zealand as a way to document a chapter of our lives that felt both new and formative. What started as a personal record gradually grew into a place to share the experiences, places and smaller moments that stayed with us.
Today, you’ll find road-trip itineraries, practical destination guides, hiking recommendations, food and coffee finds, travel stories and observations from longer stays. We share what worked, what surprised us and what we would do differently, along with the details we wish we had known before arriving.
The Blog
Some posts are designed to help you plan a particular route or destination, while others capture the quieter experiences that made a place memorable. Every article is rooted in places we have actually visited and experiences we have had ourselves rather than idealised itineraries or passing trends.
Whether you are planning a journey of your own or simply curious about life somewhere different, we hope Wanderingcapes helps you look beyond the obvious and find more to appreciate along the way.
Start Exploring
Explore the destinations we have written about so far or head to the blog for our latest practical guides and travel stories.
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