Homeward Bound – Tabasco to Sonora
On our reluctant retreat away from the Yucatan, and points south, and starting north due to the heat, we could only manage two highway hours before stopping at a cheap Airbnb in Villahermosa, Tabasco, where we walked about and ate street tacos. Veracruz or thereabouts tomorrow, with few options...
Tripping through Oaxaca y Chiapas
7 de Marzo It was hard to leave the comforts of Oaxaca de Juarez, and the airbnb, but we got plans. San Jose del Pacifico was awesome. The town is known for its shrooms. They’re used mostly for religious ceremonies and mental health reasons. But, the story goes, an...
High on Mexico’s Southern Highlands
“We last left our heroes Karyssa and Nick in Ciudad Valles of San Lois Potosi with the ever pertinent question of Where to next? And howww will they get there? And in god’s name, what will. they. see?! Only time will say. But one thing is for certain! With...
Meeting Mainland Mexico
(Jan 10) Departing the ferry in Mazatlán (meaning “place of deer” in the Native Nahuatl tongue), we had almost as much apprehension as when we crossed the US-Mexican border. Despite our growing surety in Baja, this was Sinaloa, after all – listed by the US Government as a state...
Baja California Sur
It’s amazing how few books on Mexico a gringo can find in her local bookstore, especially given our country’s complicated history and relations, but besides Paul Theroux’s excellent “On the Plains of Snakes”–a book that even my dad approves of and that my brother Peter is currently reading–I have...
Baja California, Mexico that is.
December 12, 2020 As per usual, we avoided highways while traversing Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico and mainly tried to hug the Mexican border, as if to get to get a foretaste of what was to come. Apprehensive over leaving the comforts of our homeland, it didn’t lessen our...
Florida
When one of us was a wee lad in Ireland, Florida was an exotic and Pirate-filled land, but now it’s been home for almost half of his life, and most of Karyssa’s. And so it is hard to describe fairly, as making the familiar foreign is a prerequisite for...
Farting Around
Y’all. Listen. There’s a lot still to catch up on. So here’s what’s up. This blog post is gonna hafta be mostly pictures. There might be a rant here and there, but we’ve gotten too far behind to detail everyday since the wedding. Sooo, sorry futures selves for having...
Black Hills Magic
Sep 7 – After a much needed rest at Billy and Lisa’s, we had planned on tackling the Winds. But an early arctic blast forced us to reconsider. Wildfires also closed off some cool Colorado options, as they already have California ones. Sad face. The best weather alternative was...
Idaho to Wyoming via Montana
We have to force ourselves to leave Montana, but we’ll be back. The 23rd found us among the wild hills of Lolo NF, camped along the Thompson River a few miles from where it joins the beautiful Clark Fork River, boondocking on the side of very dusty gravel road...