As a Brooklyn girl, I know suffocating humidity, but I have gotten used to wonderfully pleasant mild Portland summer weather, so now Baja California is proving to be extreme. I love these cloudless skies and sunshine, but living outside every day (when we’re wild camping) in 85F weather is not easy. We’ve found that staying […]
Travels
Ah Cabo.
It’s a gorgeously “set” place. The first place we saw where a river valley had a stream feeding into the Pacific. Palm tree groves and GREEN GRASS lining entrances into resort complexes. There are so many beautiful places in the world. I’m not quite sure how to classify this one. I had the strange feeling […]
Day to Day-What’s it Like?
We figured out we have a mouse. Yesterday I woke up at 1am and lay in bed reading my book. Then I started to hear the slightest rustling. You should know I’ve become a very light sleeper because I’m anticipating the girls waking up at least once a night (needing to pee or be covered […]
First Baja Shopping Trip
For me, stepping into a grocery store reflects a lot about the culture of the area. For our first shopping trip, about a month ago, we stopped at a large Calimex store in San Felipe because we needed to get a lot of basics (rice, beans, pasta), and produce. Well, it was a very easy […]
A Day of Double Failures
Welll, we weren’t planning for this. But we are always expecting something to break. Yesterday was a double whammy. As soon as we pulled out onto the main road from our restorative 2 nights at the insanely beautiful El Coyote campsite… …I noticed that a small existing crack in our windshield has advanced- LIKE 6”’!!! […]
Changing Vistas
There’s something to “overlanding.” Defined as traveling by driving over land, it also refers to the culture of living out of a vehicle. I’m figuring out why it’s so enjoyable for us. Wikipedia: self-reliant overland travel to remote destinations where the journey is the principal goal. Typically, but not exclusively, it is accomplished with mechanized off-road capable […]
Coffee I LOVE YOU.
After Medellin we drove a couple of kilometers north to get to the central cordillera of Colombia. We (or I) was on the search for some coffee covered hillsides and unspoiled beauty. So our daily plans focused on being off the beaten path, finding donuts, and drinking coffee. We started our city-detox with the quaint […]
Me-de-jean: MetroCables and Murals
Medellin is a huge city. We generally try to stay away from big cities because driving Lola in tight cities is always a struggle, but cities are also the place where we can observe how modern culture and conveniences are incorporated by the country. Medellin is just as hip as NYC, busy as Boston, and […]
Padres in Cartagena
Mom and Dad called up one day and said that they were ready to book tickets. We’d been talking about them visiting us again in South America for some time. My Dad is not a very particular guy, but he wanted warm saltwater. Warm saltwater was what we’d heard every time we talked about their visit. For warm saltwater […]
So What’s Colombia like?
(Written on 2/8/18, posted on 5/1/18) Well, right now I can tell you what the truck stops in Colombia are like. Dusty, some wifi, some toilet seats, there might be toilet paper in the bathrooms, small snack shops….it’s an interesting place to spend the night. For instance, this morning I witnessed white flabby neck cows […]