Update: Breaking Oregon, the Big C, New Buggl Guide & Win A Weekend in any City.

Last we talked, Beth, Chachy (our almost fearless 10-pound hound) and I were jetting across the country to experience the wonder that is Crater Lake National Park in Oregon. Well, I’m happy to report that we got to experience the national park in all of its snowy glory, and it was magnificent.

Something else happened to us along the way in southern Oregon, though, we met a whole lot of passionate people doing some pretty amazing things, so you won’t want to miss our upcoming  stories from the trip, especially if you like beer, wine, cheese, chocolate, coffee and gorgeous landscapes. In the meantime, you can check out our Instagram page as well as Travel Oregon’s Instagram account to get a sneak peek of what we discovered on our Pacific Northwest journey.

Don’t worry, the fog eventually lifted (kind of) and we got a few good photos of the Crater Lake!

Currently, we’re in San Diego for roughly 24 more hours. After Oregon, we flew down to help out a good friend of ours who is currently fighting the Big C, and kicking its ASS! Honestly, the past 10 months have been riddled with a number of our friends and family, including a furry one too, having to battle cancer, and I’m happy to say they’re all doing amazing.

While we’ve been in San Diego, I have been working on our latest guide for Buggl. You may remember we put together our first collection of digital travel guides in February. We had a great response to our first series, so we decided to sign on to create several more over the next couple of months.

Our newest guide for the platform is “Travel Thru Emilia-Romagna: 48-Hours in Italy’s Food Capital,” and it is packed with insider information from our travels in the region, where we got to delve into the local scene with help from our good friend Nick Montemaggi of Emilia-Romagna tourism. If you love Italy and you love food, but have never been to this region in Northern Italy, then you need to stop reading this now, and go book a flight…yes, I know that’s a bit extreme, but Emilia-Romagna is seriously that awesome! Alternatively, if jetting off to Europe at this very moment isn’t doable, then our travel guide coupled with this free e-book “Art Cities of Emilia-Romagna,” will help keep your wanderlust stoked until you can make the trip.

Create your own guide and win

Apparently, Buggl is in a weekend getaway kind of mood for the month of May, and is offering anyone who creates a “48 Hours in the City” guide during the month a chance to win an all expenses paid 48 hour getaway to any city in the world with spending cash! Learn all about the contest and details at http://www.buggl.com/48hours.

O.K., on the note, I’m going to have to say adios, so I can go out and scourer San Diego for my next guide: “Skate Thru San Diego: 48 Hours in America’s Finest City.”

Oh yeah, and if you do create a guide for Buggl, let us know about it in the comments, so we can help promote it for you through our social channels!