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, with 1000 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 looking, but largely 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.