Here at TheseBoots we appreciate the wandering spirit, so we’d like to introduce you to a couple of young Canadian university students who have found a way to have their travel cake and eat it too.

These kids don’t exactly blend:

Michael Beaty is a six-foot-tall redhead currently on exchange from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC to Waseda University in Tokyo. A failed French student who came late to Japanese language-training, he’s now fluent and his blog–IheartPocky–is a hilarious recounting of his Nipponese adventures, educational and otherwise.

And Kai Watkins, also six feet and model thin, is equally uninvisible in Morocco where she is on an exchange semester to Al Akhawayn University from Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, BC. Her mildly bawdy blog, Student(un)raveled, is likewise a lot of fun for armchair travelers–especially those of us who are a wistful sigh away from our own adolescent walkabouts.

Check out their blogs–and please add a comment below if you know of other great travel blogs by wandering Canucks. We’re among the most-traveled people in the world, so there must be more out there!