Welcome to our travel blog!

Join us as we share our travel experiences through engaging photos, captivating videos and insightful narratives. We invite you to explore our adventures and encourage your comments and questions to create a vibrant travel community together.

From February 2025, this website is our main vehicle for sharing our travels.

We have discovered we are “pilgrimage people”, or at least, long-distance walkers who love history, being in nature and having space and time to think. We know that this is a luxury activity, in terms of time, health and capacity. Being able to share these adventures, and their impact on us, is important to us and something we are willing to do the work to do.

It started in 2024, when took our first “Supertrip” – for 5 ½ months in 5 countries. We drove from Calgary, Alberta, the length of the US to Atlanta. From there, we flew to Paris for a couple of months in France (with a sneaky week in London), went on to Spain for 6 weeks or so, before flying back to Atlanta to drive East, via Niagara Falls, for an epic exploration of Eastern Canada including 5 ferry trips and crossing 9 territories or provinces.

We shared that adventure using Facebook and email, which was fine. But, many friends either never joined or have exited Facebook and we, too, are uncomfortable there, especially now moderation has been abandoned. But, the email group got very few photos and no videos and was a really “one way” communication from us to them…

AND, we got the bug.

As we gear up for Supertrip 2025 (and start to envision Supertrip 2026), we realise that we need a better solution. That’s what this site is for. We want everyone to share this amazing adventure, and to communicate with us and with each other as we go along.

On Supertrip 2024, we got into the rhythm of uploading photos with some short comments daily. Every other day, I would post a 500-word article/blog. Poems and videos would be posted as they arose and got edited. This felt good to us and was well-received by our friends. We expect this is now “our way” of sharing our travels, though, things may evolve.

Some of our Supertrip 2024 materials have made it onto this website. We may go back and fill in, but probably not. There’s so much else to see and do!

Supertrip 2025 is much smaller. We are away only 9 weeks, in only 3 countries. But, it is still an awesome gift/project. We now have a lovely home in Calgary to act as a base and anchor. We expect more, but shorter breaks in future. And, with this site to act as a “hub”, we have a framework for sharing those here too.

Supertrip 2025 comprises flying to London mid-February, heading over to Lisbon, Portugal for a week and then walking the camino Portuguèse from March 1st, arriving in Santiago de Compostela on April 3rd. After that, we return for another 2 weeks in London before flying home for Easter. The walk is about the same length as the camino Francais and less busy.

Discover Our Travel Adventures

Hello, we are Carey Barrett and Karen Harrison, husband and wife, now based in Alberta, Canada.

We love living in Calgary. The city maintains the most extensive urban pathway and bikeway network in North America, with1000 km of regional pathways and 96 km of trails. Even at home, we can walk for hours under the amazing prairie sky.

Carey is retired. Karen is out of work. This has given us the luxury of time. We share an undimmable curiosity for the world and a desire to explore it, one step at a time. We're really happy, and grateful, for the chance to share what we discover and experience with you.

About Walk(ing) The Walk

We have lived in 6 countries together (and a total of 11 between us). Since we came together in 2014, we have visited a further 10 countries for vacations, and quartered North America from Hawaii to Halifax, from Tuktoyaktuk to Key West, from Red Bay, Labrador to San Francisco.

Wherever we go, we like to ground in a place. We try to self-cater. We take public transport and, above all, we walk. Whether you are exploring a city or hiking to a castle, cave or waterfall, walking is the most human way of experiencing and encountering your location – its geography, both natural and built, its physicality, its smells, tastes and sounds, its weather and its way of being. Humans are the sole-remaining bi-pedal ape, an endurance hunter, literally designed to walk.

In recent years, we have discovered a shared passion for long-distance walking, specifically, inn-to-inn long-distance walking with history and purpose, which is epitomized by the camino de Santiago de Compostela.

There are many caminos. This is a familiar “camino saying”. It is literally true – there are many traditional roads and routes all across Europe to that same Cathedral. It is experientially true. Every walk is different, just like every river crossed is a different river. It is permissively true. We each walk our own camino in our own way. And it is metaphorically true. We are all on a journey of living and learning, whether we put boots on the ground or not.

When we can, we DO put boots on the ground and an actual pilgrimage is a magical and addictive experience. And, we want to share that, and all the rest we discover, walking through this world with wonder and with deep gratitude for our ability to do so. This website will likely include many non-camino experiences and adventures. Its heart will always be walking the walk.

Contact Us

We'd love to hear from you.

If you'd like to comment, share your thoughts, ask questions or just say "hi", you can reach us at the email on the bottom of this page, or just use the message form to the right.

We welcome your engagement with our travel adventures, photos, videos, and written narratives.