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Stephen & Giselle backpacking the Sierra High Route

THE LOVERS PASSPORT

Welcome to The Lovers Passport!

We are Giselle and Stephen, a couple of California natives with a HUGE passion for outdoor adventure & travel! We thrive on exploring everywhere from the beach to the backcountry, and we just can’t get enough of it! From backpacking and camping to traveling abroad, we’ve got your couple’s travel inspo covered!

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Our Pre-Road Trip Checklist 🛣 (‘𝗦𝗮𝘃𝗲' 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿!) [ad]

Whenever we leave for our weekend road trips, we have a religious checklist that we do to make sure our car is good to go for the weekend! Especially since we’re putting a ton of miles on the car every month, taking great care of the car is super important to us so it can keep us adventuring for a long time 🚙

🚗 Check Tire Pressure & Fill Up Tires (including your spare!): The rule of thumb is you should be checking your tire pressure once a month! Tire pressure can vary after heavy use and in different temps/seasons so you can make sure the pressure is ideal as it fluctuates. We’ve been using the @fanttik_official X8 Apex Tire Inflator for both the 4Runner & our E-Bikes and it is so convenient and quick! It’s also cordless and super small so it hardly takes up any room in our car camping set up. If you’re ever off roading and need to air down your tires, having a tire inflator is also a must! Check it out in the link in our bio! 🔗
🚗 Check Oil - Make sure we don’t need an oil change. We tend to change the 4Runner’s oil every 5000 miles!
🚗 Fill Up Gas - Gas near us tends to be cheaper than spots around popular national parks and landscapes where prices are jacked up! Make sure we have jumper cables & snow chains in the car just in case we need them
🚗 Prep Car Camping Setup - input our wooden platform, our storage boxes, window covers, sleeping setup, and pack up the rest of our items! Then we’re all good to go!

Do you have a road trip coming up this year?

How to Travel with your Dog 🐶 (‘𝗦𝗮𝘃𝗲' 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿!)

🐾 Keep them Comfortable - it is so important they stay warm or cool depending on the temperature! We bring a water bottle sprayer from @rinsekitusa to cool our dog down when she is too hot and a down puffy from @llbean when she gets cold!

🦴 Bring Extra Treats - it is SO important to bring treats to help your dog stay focused! Anytime Karen in barking, pulling, or not focused we pull out treats to refocus her and helps us when traveling immensely!

💻 Research - we always research online dog friendly hikes, parks, and places to visit before leaving for the trip! If there are not a lot of places to bring our dog, we leave her at home with her grandmas, but if we can plan hikes and places along the trip she is allowed to go we always bring her! 🐶

🐕 Understand Dogs Limits - this is HUGE when hiking and road tripping! Don’t take your dog on a long hike for their first trip! We have been slowly building up Karen’s endurance and this is such an important part to make it easier on you and the dog! It’s also recommended you wait to introduce longer walks until they are done growing so hiking doesn’t impact their joint growth

🐶 Keep them Safe - having your dog wear a backpack on hikes to carry food, wearing something reflective so you can see them at night, and finding a long tether so at camp they don’t wander off too far!

Do you bring your pets adventuring with you? 🧐

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Our 2022 Goals 👇🏼

✈️ 5 New Countries
🤿 Get Scuba Certified
🏃‍♂️ Run a Marathon
🥋 Earn my Black Belt
📖 Read 2 books per month
📍 10 New National Parks
📷 Release our @loverspassportpresets
🏔 Climb Mt. Whitney
🪂 Go Skydiving

We have been adventuring almost every single weekend this past year and accomplished almost all our goals in 2021. We bring @truenorthenergy to keep us energized because it tastes great and has no crash like coffee to keep us fueled for adventures! Now available @sprouts 🤘🏼

Tell us one of your goals for 2022 👇🏼

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