One year on the road. Can you believe it? Exactly one year ago today we got rid of anything that would not fit into The Landcruiser and moved out of our beautiful wreck of a house. One year ago we said farewell to our friends and neighbors. We have been living out of the Landcruiser [...]
We love being on the road. Driving through North and Central America has been a wonderful experience and most definitely a once in a lifetime opportunity, but there is one thing we always dread… Borders. No, not the bookstore chain, actual imaginary lines delimiting where one country ends and another one starts. There is a [...]
Parque Nacional El Imposible was our first pleasant surprise in El Salvador. We had heard about this fairly new reserve from several blogs and from our friends at Lonely Planet and we decided to spend a few days hiking there. We like the name El Imposible (The Impossible) a lot; there is a Mission Impossible [...]
The Guatemala- El Salvador border crossing was our first bad border crossing experience. Compared to other horrible tales we have heard of or read about it does not seem that bad, but it was a 4 hour PITA ordeal. It is amazing what a little bit of power will do to some people’s ego. Think [...]
We love food. Truly, deeply love food of all kinds. After spending four and a half months in Mexico we saw beautiful places, met wonderful people, but what we may miss the most is the food of Mexico. I salivate and cry just thinking of some of the dishes we savored at some places we [...]
Well, ladies and gentlemen Luis has done it again! Following the misadventures of this space case zen master is hilarious and sad. Some of you may remember some of the prior “incidents” he brought to this adventure of ours e.g.: The fuel tank full of gasoline in our diesel burning vehicle (Link), the near expedition [...]
We headed into San Ignacio on the western edge of Belize. It was our intention to spend a few days in San Ignacio while we visited the Actun Tunichil Muknal (ATM) caves and then drive to the Caracol Mayan Ruins in the Pine Ridge Mountains… however, needless to say, like most of our plans it didn’t [...]
Oh Belize, Belize you sneaky little country… we did not expect to like you as much as we did. In fact our plan was to drive right through your territory and right into Guatemala. We were told by many that Belize was expensive, touristy and unfriendly. Wrong, wrong and wrong. Belize is beautiful, it can [...]
We spent a few days in Guanajuato after Luis’ first visit from the stomach fairy, otherwise known as Montezuma’s Revenge… Oh yeah, he was down for the count 2 days. No fun. But we have a pact that goes something like this: if one of us gets any kind of stomach problem we pause the [...]
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 [...]
