This travel blog — I stumbled on it while gawking around the vast universe of travel blogs — caught my attention for its depth of coverage.
The Wandering Queen surprised me for its effort to provide detailed and useful information about places and gear. Since it covers areas I’m familiar with (including Oregon and western Canada) I appreciated touring suggestions, such as Best Oregon Coast Hikes. Since I’ve done some hiking on the coast, it was easy for me to assess the quality of the recommendations. They were good, and while the list missed a couple of my personal favorites (Humbug Mountain Loop Trail), visitors using it for their trip planning will get great views. It is the Oregon coast after all.
There are packing checklists and gear recommendations and generally, it feels like a great website to find travel inspiration, which is how I spend the dark days of winter.
My only (very small) bone to pick concerns lack of dates on the material. For example recommendations on hotels and restaurants in Jasper, British Columbia, don’t mention the devastating fire that destroyed a great deal of the town in summer 2024. But then again, current conditions on the ground are the responsibility of individual travelers to discover in their own trip planning.
It’s a great little online spot to disappear into when the weather outside is frightful.
Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now 