Welcome to the life of a Compass Junkie!
If you love traveling, people, great food, adventure and an active lifestyle , embark with us!
You have found the online home of the Jones family. We are passionate about traveling and finding amazing food, and exploring and having adventures along the way. Here you will find our digital trail of our exploits in the form of stories, videos, photos and more. We hope to build a community of like-minded individuals to exchange experiences with. Whether you have just caught the travel bug, have traveled solo, with your significant other or children, or are seasoned travelers; we hope you will join us as we attempt to capture our lives on this digital multimedia journey. Slainté!
Travel
Feeling the need to awaken in new places, meet new faces, and learn new cultures, never ceases. We opt to find new places to experience. Our comfort zone is something we want to expand, not shrink, and not let stagnate. The more we see of the world around us, the better we understand others who are different than us. This is not only good for who we become, but it is exciting and helps us to continue to grow.
Eat
Fresh and authentic.Diverse and unique. Full of flavor, an endless appetite for the best foods from cuisines around the world never seems satisfied. It is often said that you can learn a lot about people by the foods they eat, and the foods that are central to their culture. I think that couldn’t be more accurate. The food we eat, or don’t, can also say something about our values. When we balance our foods with quality ingredients, different styles, and push boundaries, we maximize the positive effects on our physical and mental well being.
Explore
Adventuring. Wandering. Rambling. Backpacking. Hiking. Meandering. Exploring. Moving. Whatever you choose to call it, it calls us. Around every corner, something awaits. We choose to seek out hose corners, not just to peek at timidly, but to run to and engage with. The time we have here on our planet is uncertain. We try our best to find opportunities to be adventurous in our activities, engage all our senses, and push ourselves past what we think our limits are, safely, but in a way that encourages a release of adrenalin, endorphins, and dopamine.
Active Life
Maintaining an active lifestyle, to us, is essential to living a fulfilling life. In addition to choosing activities that are active by nature such as biking, kayaking, hiking, swimming, and working out, we believe that everyday choices we make affect our health. Parking further from a store, walking up stairs instead of using elevators, and not choosing some conveniences that make us move less, whenever possible, increases our overall health, boosts our energy levels, and allows us to keep our bodies primed for movement, ensuring that we don’t become frail any faster than we have to, and keeping us young in spirit indefinitely.
We desire to experience the world to its fullest, we dare to go out into it. To meet a place and a people as they are, to know them through their food, their music, and their culture.
An understanding of the value and benefit of embracing the human capacity to grow, can be attained by seeing, smelling, touching, listening, speaking, tasting, walking, traveling, and fellowshipping, and attempting to know as much of the world as possible. The further you go off the beaten path, and out of your comfort zone, the more you can grow and understand who you really are. We seek to embrace this concept as often as we can, and to help others to do the same.
We believe that in gaining an understanding of people different than us, we can see all of the ways we are the same. In this, we befriend the world and grow our human family and create bonds with all of the children of God. Trading a bit of ourselves, in exchange for a bit of those we meet, the world becomes a little closer to our hearts. When this happens, we can love our neighbors greater.
"Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”
― Gustave Flaubert
