Out This Door: Travel Tips & Destination Reviews

About Us

Out This Door is a travel blog…

Out This Door is a travel blog with travel tips, stories, destination reviews, and itineraries.

The Out This Door mission…

Out This Door empowers travelers to craft a lifetime of travel experiences that are personally meaningful without breaking the bank, back, or brain.

You’ve got money and time to travel but you don’t have money or time to waste.

You’ve got “get up and go” but you’re not going to put your life in danger to do it.

You’ve got a curious mind and the appreciation of cool things and what it took to get there. But it is also vacation and you’ve earned the privilege to relax too.

Our Travel niches…

USA RV travels especially boondocking in the West, visiting national monuments rather than the more famous national parks, heading into the great wide open in national forests where every nook and cranny is pretty sweet.

International trips in the off-season and shoulder seasons to experience history without the crowds

Sharing our first-hand experience in the RV or across the pond. We’ll give our two cents worth on hotels, points of interest, roads to travel for fun, and more.

Sharing with you the beauty in the unloved places, Out This Door is where the crowds are not. Our hidden gems aren’t for everyone.

The Out This Door vision…

We encourage you to not have the trip of a lifetime, instead we want you to have a lifetime of trips.

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See Out This Door in action at our YouTube channel

Contact us: Weareoutthisdoor@gmail

Hotel room with a double bed, striped curtains, a TV on a stand, a desk with a chair, and nautical-themed wall decorations at the Best Western Hotel in Lausanne Switzerland

Ancient Greek-style temple ruin in Sicily in January with stone columns on a hill under a cloudy sky

Meet the Out This Door team…

Your Tour Guide

NatureNikki

Nature geek, copilot, photographer. Real life tour guide and tour guide trainer. Informally educating through play and experience. Paper artist. Gardener. All at once. All the time.

Driver and Staffage

CT, the CheeseHead

“Staffage,” an archaic photographer’s term meaning a person who stands by a wonder so the viewer can compare the size of the thing to the size of a typical man.

Goofball #1

Otis

Master of the stare down, chasing away the bears, stealing bones from his sister, is Otis, the Wirehaired Pointing Griffon.

Goofball #2

Lilie

Taking gold in Dog Olympics for finding the legs of dead animals. Can’t hold her licker. Also a Wirehaired Pointing Griffon.

Hello,

I’m Nikki

At Out This Door, we do NOT want you to have the Trip of a Lifetime. That’s way too much pressure! Instead, we want to have A Lifetime of Trips.

Out This Door is a travel blog with tips, stories, destination reviews, and itineraries.

Near or far, on the cheap or ritzy splurge, for the night or many more, a lifetime of trips will find the fun, low stress, and little pleasures in life.

We’re “slow travelers”—not because we move slowly, but because we skip rigid, minute-by-minute itineraries and choose a few meaningful experiences each day. Keeping plans flexible lets us follow the weather, local tips, and our own curiosity, which makes trips feel more spontaneous and far less stressful.