a home for wanderers, risk takers and trailblazers
No Maps or Foot Tracks is not your typical travel blog. On these pages, it’s all about embracing the destination-less journey, tuning inward as you go outward, and leaving room for chance encounters, unexpected detours, and adventure to find you. You know, the stuff of the best travel tales.
You’ll find curated travel guides and personal narratives from my own open-ended wanderings. Consider all of it a launchpad, a “start here” so to speak, for your own heart wide open, intuition-led trust fall of a journey through the places and spaces I’ve been wandering just a few steps ahead of you.
Here, we leave the maps at home and forge our own footsteps.
Seeking Voices for a New Series
The Living Voices series is a new series I’m starting on the blog that invites voices from misunderstood or underexplored places and cultures to tell us who they are in their own voice, through their own words, art, memories, stories, snapshots of their daily life, and so on. All of this will collect on the page linked below, serving as an ever-expanding window into the true heart and soul of a place, of a culture—its people.
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No Maps or Foot Tracks is written by me - Amber Dunlap. I’m a travel writer & blogger originally from the United States.
Follow the adventure in real time. I’m @nomapsamber on Instagram.
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Travel Guides
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Oaxaca, Mexico
A crossroads of ancient culture, mouthwatering cuisine, the great outdoors, and deeply rooted spiritual undertones, Oaxaca will enchant you.
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Cartagena, Colombia
A feast for the senses under the sweltering Caribbean sun, Cartagena is an unforgettable destination if you but look past its made-for-tourism facade.
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Costa Rica
Known for its nature and pura vida lifestyle, Costa Rica’s people and places will reframe your lens on life and leave you appreciating even the little things.
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Nicaragua
With a tropical disposition and refreshing authenticity, Nicaragua’s the sort of place that makes you feel part of it just because you’re there.
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Sri Lanka
A land of vibrant contrasts, Sri Lanka is a place that packs an incredible journey into its small frame, from golden beaches to sacred temples, untamed wildlife, and so much more.
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Planning a PNW road trip? Here’s the scenic weeklong Pacific Northwest itinerary I followed in my Roadsurfer van — from beaches to forests to tribal lands.