Monthly Archives: January 2010

Fruit post I

We love food.  One of the wonderful things about travel is not just seeing new places and meeting new people, but trying new foods.  Different spices and cooking techniques make all manner of dishes taste completely different even within the same towns we visit, but nature’s bounty is what has us mesmerized and constantly titillating [...]

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Tequila!!!

This post is dedicated to Robin, Jodie, Laurel, and Rico, for your love of tequila… we thought of you the whole time! After Puerto Vallarta we said goodbye to the coast for a little while and headed inland, making a stop in Tequila. We took a really nice back road from Puerto Vallarta into Tequila [...]

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Puerto Vallarta

This post brings us way back to our New Years days in Puerto Vallarta… yes we are posting that far back.  Hate to admit it, but it is easier to process the hundreds of pics we shoot and it gives us time to digest our experiences.  This may not translate to good photo albums or [...]

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Our 6 month Half-iversary…

Friends and family, 6 months ago today we sold all our earthly belongings, left our home in California and moved into our cozy new home: our trusty steed, the tight quartered Landcruiser.  In the last 17,500 miles and 6 months we have grown to love the Landcruiser and its dependable diesel engine even more than [...]

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The coast from Los Mochis to Puerto Vallarta

This post will have a bit of everything and a lot of photos… To be perfectly honest the coast of Sinaloa and Nayarit is beautiful, but so far nothing quite compares to what we saw in Baja.  Sorry Edmundo.  Don’t get me wrong there are awesome places all along the coast, but not quite there [...]

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The Copper Canyon Part Deux

After the long and arduous drive down to Urique it was necessary to sit back and enjoy the amazing views of the towering mountains that stand above the town.  The lush tree covered hillsides and big rock slabs jutting out of the top of the mountains are incredibly awe inspiring. We found a great place to stay [...]

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The Copper Canyon Part I

We took a fairly nice dirt back-road from Basaseachic to Creel, which is only a few hours away.  Creel is, for most, the starting point for trips to the Copper Canyon and is perhaps most famous as being one of the main stops of the famous Chihuahua al Pacifico train (El Chepe).  Most of the [...]

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