Blue Ghost Adventures (2024)

30/05/2024

Family Camp 2024. It’s a wrap! Twenty parents, 21 kids, 4 days and 3 nights. Untold number of adventures. We ran, swam in the swimming hole, visited the bamboo garden and the tree house, boated in the kayaks. Saw a bunch of snakes, frogs and tadpoles becoming frogs, a white squirrel and a beaver on the river. Went tubing on the French Broad River. Went swimming beneath a waterfall. Ate a serious amount of ice cream, roasted marshmallows, ate 12
pizzas and some candy. And no one got hurt and cried! Not even the parents.

02/05/2024

You watch, you wonder…could I do that long trek? Now’s your chance to find out. Blue Ghost Adventures will be taking on the West Highland Way in Scotland in September. It’s 96 miles over 9 days. AND we’ll be staying at
local inns along the way with someone else moving our bags while we hike with daypacks filled with lunch, water bottles and personal items for the day. It’s a perfect starter trail. Like the tale of Goldilocks and the 3 Bears - it’s not too hard, not to soft. It’s just right. Let me know if you need a Fall getaway from campaign ads and late summer heat!

02/05/2024

Family Camp in Brevard NC is the next Blue Ghost Adventure. It’s happening in a few weeks over Memorial Day weekend. We had so much fun last year, we had to do it again. Check out the photos from last year.

23/04/2024

Another fun spring break with Blue Ghost Adventures. This time we went to Cartagena, Colombia for a long weekend. And what a great group! Great restaurants, a fun beach resort, some shopping..what’s not to love!

27/03/2024

Have you got FOMO? You have just a few days to join the next Blue Ghost Adventure - Spring Break in Cartagena,
Colombia! April 18-23. We will spend two days at a beach resort and have a secret supper club dinner with a guest chef and then the rest of the time exploring Cartagena. No tents, no hiking, just a lovely spring break in a beautiful coastal city. Plus great food! Don’t look at the pictures after we return and wish you had gone!

18/03/2024

A month of Blue Ghost Adventures in Argentina and Chile is wrapping up today. Our O Trek in Torres del Paine National Park in Patagonia was exciting and challenging and beautiful. Many thanks to the 16 trekkers who worked together as a team to get home safely while enjoying this magnificent park. There are more Blue Ghost Adventures to come. Meanwhile check this out.

27/02/2024

Blue Ghost Adventures in the Lake District of Argentina and Chile. First stop is Bariloche and Nahuel Huapi National Park. We will cross the alpine lakes into Chile later this week and visit that side of the southern Andes. Later this month another group will meet in Torres del Paine National Park to hike the O Trek over a week. Come relax with us in Cartagena, Colombia in April. Or hike the West Highland Way in September. There’s so much to see and do in this world.

11/01/2024

It’s time for the first Blue Ghost Adventure of 2024. Twelve of us will be headed to Marfa, Texas and Big Bend National Park for a road trip weekend. There’s still room on upcoming trips - spring break in Cartagena, Colombia and Memorial Day weekend Family Camp in Brevard, NC. Come September we will be hiking the West Highland Way in Scotland and in October some experienced hikers will be headed to Bhutan for a high altitude hike and a visit to the Snow Leopard Festival. Don’t wait. These trips fill up fast. In the meantime, here’s a picture from the last west Texas Road Trip.

03/01/2024

The new 2024 Blue Ghost Adventures calendar is out. It’s going to be a fun year. Some trips are sold out already but some new trips still have room for you. If you don’t receive the newsletter and would like to, send me your email address via messenger and I’ll be in touch. Just a teaser - spring break with private beachside supper club in Cartegena, Colombia is April 18-23; Family Camp II in Brevard, NC is Memorial Day weekend; bucket list trek in Bhutan is October 9-21. Jump on these now if you want a spot.

09/09/2023

There are a few Blue Ghost Adventures in 2024 that you might want to check out. First up is a trip to Marfa-Big Bend in January. It’s sold out but put together a group of 10 and we’ll do it again. Then in late February, we’ll be doing a week in the Lake District of Argentina and Chile. It is all outdoor fun without the backpacks and tents. In March, we will head to Patagonia to do the O Trek in Torres Del Paine National Park. Just one spot remaining for this. And Memorial Day weekend we will have Family Camp again in Brevard NC. Grab the kids and let’s kick off summer together. Let me know if you’d like details on any of these trips.

22/07/2023

Just finishing the latest Blue Ghost Adventure - 6 nights and 5 days of hiking the 35 mile Whale Trail on the Western Cape of South Africa. Nine of us set out on this hut to hut adventure seeing beautiful flowers, lots of southern right whales along the coast and cozy nights together in huts located in jaw dropping, gorgeous locations. A couple of quick stops in Stellenbosch to taste some wine at the front end, a night along the coast in Hermanus to shower and regroup. Now on to Cape Town for a few days before heading home. Lots of big travel planned for Blue Ghost Adventures next year. Watch for announcements soon.

12/07/2023

Feeling adventurous? Blue Ghost Adventurers will be headed to Torres del Paine National Park on the Chilean side of Patagonia to do the weeklong O trek in March 2024. It’s rigorous but we will only carry sleeping bags, clothes and personal items and stay at huts and platform tents along the way. All our food will be provided too. If you are interesting in hearing more, let me know. Prior multi-day backpacking experience not mandatory but we’d need to assess if this is right for you if you’ve not done hiking like this previously. There is just one spot left on this trip. Photo credit: Amy DeGroff

29/05/2023

Family Camp at Deerwoode Reserve was a blast. If you want to have this much fun, hold Memorial Day weekend 2024 on your calendar. Details to come.

25/05/2023

This weekend is the first Blue Ghost Adventures Family Camp. Twenty four parents and twenty six kids will be at Deerwoode Reserve in Brevard, NC running amok in the mountains. Stay tuned for field day photos.

25/04/2023

Just wrapped up another Blue Ghost Adventures with 29 friends. This time we visited San Miguel de Allende. Great weather, good food, beautiful architecture and lots of art. And no tents or trekking. That comes later this summer when we go to South Africa.

11/03/2023

It’s time to get going. Join our next hut to hut hiking trip on the Whale Trail in South Africa July 13-25, 2023. The best in slack packing - someone else transfers our gear while we walk 5-10 miles a day along the east coast of South Africa looking for whales and enjoying the views. A few days in the Winelands on the way in and a few days in Cape Town to wrap it up in a bow. Room for 2 to join us before it fills up.

14/10/2022

Family Camp! Yep, I’m doing a camp for families with kids. You can bring the grandparents, guncles and ants, too. We’ll have a 175 acre riverfront camp in Brevard, NC where we can swim, kayak, hike and play on Memorial Day weekend 2023. Lots of fun camper activities planned plus suggestions for exploring the area AND a special evening dinner for the parents while the kids are supervised in another part of the camp. Let me know if you want more info. It’s going to be a great way to kick off the summer.

11/10/2022

Like bikes? We’ve got exclusive use of a river front camp near downtown Brevard NC. March 31-April 2, we will be riding in the 50k or 100k Assault in the Carolinas bike ride. It’s a challenging ride but we’ll have fun that even non-riding friends can enjoy. There are eleven houses of various sizes so grab your ride crew and get your pick early. A pre-ride chef prepared dinner will be included for Friday night to get you stoked for the next day.

31/08/2022

It’s been a busy summer for travelers
with Blue Ghost Adventures. First up was a two week hiking trip on the Huayhuash circuit in the Peruvian Andes. A week later we explored Slovenia and hiked, rafted and experienced great food in the Triglav Alps. This month we went to South Africa to explore the Drakensberg mountains with a side of Johannesburg and Soweto. Plans are underway for 2023 including more time in South Africa with a number of activity options - from hut to hut hiking along the Whale Trail to time exploring the Wine Route and all the beauty of Cape Town. More to come.

31/08/2022

Just back from the Drakensberg Escarpment in South Africa. We had it all, snow, gale force winds, great food and even better friends! Join us in South Africa next summer as we hike the Whale Trail.

30/07/2022

If breaking a sweat and seeing beautiful things is on your bucket list, Delta is starting a nonstop flight to Cape Town, South Africa in 2023 so Blue Ghost Adventures is going to spend some time there next year. First up is a six night hut to hut trek on the Whale Trail. Dates for the trek are July 13-25 but final details and fun will be added to those dates. Our bags and food will be transported for us and this hike is rated easy-moderate. It is the right whale breeding season and we will be walking a coastal trail in hopes of seeing some whale action. It’s winter so it could be rainy, windy or sunny and beautiful. But high temps in the upper 60s will have you escaping the US summer heat. We have reserved all the hut space so no other travelers will be joining us. Do the trek and have your non-hiking partner join us at the end in Cape Town and the Wine Route. Limited to 9 more travelers on the trek so sign up now to receive details and save your place.

30/07/2022

Planning for 2023 trips is underway. Fully baked is a leisure trip to San Miguel de Allende (SMA) Mexico April 20-24, 2023. A perfect spring break getaway for my friends trapped at the legislature for the previous three months, this trip is about resting, eating good food and seeing lots of art and culture. Guaranteed not to break a sweat unless you want to. This trip is full. Sorry you missed it.

25/07/2022

Next up is a hard one! A five day self-supported, guided trek in the Drakensberg Mountains of South Africa. Self-supported means you carry everything you need for a week on the trail. But what you get in return is amazing. We have room for two more but you must have all the gear and significant self-supported backpacking experience.

25/07/2022

June was a busy month with two trips. We got to Slovenia just in time to join the European heat wave. Thank goodness we were on the water some of the time. Check it out.

25/07/2022

Our Blue Ghost Adventure to the Huayhuash Circuit in the Peruvian Andes was two weeks of very hard hiking at altitudes up to 16000’; beautiful weather, gorgeous scenery and close encounters with tame and wild animals. Peru is right up there with Nepal as one of my favorite places to trek but with a much shorter flight and better food. Next time I announce a trip to Peru it will be a bit easier but no less amazing. Stay tuned.

22/04/2022

Here’s a last minute option for a summer adventure. We are trekking the Huayhuash circuit in Peru May 30-June 16. Yep, 12 days on the trail at 4000-5000 meters most of the way. The good news is that donkeys will carry our gear and we’ll have guides and someone cooking. Our main job is to keep walking as the air thins!! If you are ready for a hard challenge, this might be the one. There is no Blue Ghost bucket list, but if there was, this would be on it.

16/04/2022

Next up for this summer: hiking the North Drakensberg Traverse in South Africa from August 17-29. The trek is 5 days and starts/ends in Johannesburg. This is a demanding, guided, self-supported backpacking trip that should be on any trekker’s bucket list. We’ve got room for two more trekkers!!

09/04/2022

Another Blue Ghost Adventure begins…in Yelapa, Mexico!

23/03/2022

Hey! Our trip to Verana Mexico on April 8-11 is full again. Stay tuned for pictures of this beautiful place and the lucky fun group that gets to have the run of the place next weekend.

16/01/2022

Trekking in Slovenia’s Triglav Alps
is a good trip for women who are experienced at backpacking or just getting started. Join us for a 5 day adventure on the trail and then we’ll add some easy rafting on the Soca river and a couple days in compact and car-free Ljubljana to end the trip. Ten days with transfers, accommodations, trekking permits, and rafting for $2500 per person. June 22-July 3. We’ve got room for just one more! Come on!

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