Our Mission

The story goes that the fox knows many little things, and the hedgehog knows one big thing. The moral, as it’s usually told, is to be like the fox: flexible; diversified; ready for anything.

But we say the savvy hedgehog isn’t afraid to burrow deeply into its passions, and if it ends up knowing several big things, a few medium things, one gigantic thing, and some small stuff, it’ll be both savvy and satisfied.

We want to help you be a savvy hedgehog.

Want to know more about our travel philosophy? If so, check out this page!

Our Story

We started SavvyHedgehog in 2021 upon returning from a backpacking trip and realizing that everything we had just devoured about backpacking was stuck in our heads. We needed to write it all down to remember it, and we decided to do it in front of the whole world.

We hope you learn something here, and whenever you know more or better than we do, we hope you’ll get in touch and teach us something too.

About Us

We are Meera and Jerry Towler, roboticists and adventurers. This site is mostly the musings of Meera, with pictures from both Meera and Jerry (but most of the pictures are Jerry’s).