(Note: I'm starting to run out of clever titles for these things so I'm falling back on location. I hope that doesn't mean I'm done learning over-arching life lessons from each segment. But at least it will be very easy to go back and figure out where I was.) Chiapas...
Oaxaca City/El Tule I rolled into Oaxaca City after dark. Eager to find a place to stay I found a hotel on iOverlander that was super cheap. The neighborhood looked a bit dodgy, but I figured iOverlander wouldn't steer me wrong. The hotel was probably the sketchiest...
I spent a couple weeks in Puebla, learning Spanish with the great teachers at livitspanish. I also managed to fit in a few excursions. But mostly I just tried a ton of delicious food. Everything in Puebla is tasty. It's immediately obvious this is a town that takes...
As you know if you've followed this blog, I was scheduled to meet up with the guys from End of All Roads in Puebla last week. Sadly beyond words, one of the crew - Brian Johnson - skidded off the road and lost his life on their first day in Mexico, close to Zacatecas....
La Paz to Mazatlan by ferry I got to the ferry terminal about 5, as instructed. This time there were much less cars than when I was here a week ago about 5. Maybe because that ferry was going to Los Mochis. I figured I’d have plenty of time in line to get everything...
Most of this post is me messing around on “The Cape” of Baja - which from what I gather is everything south of La Paz. To get there from Bahia Concepcion on the Sea of Cortez, you actually have to criss-cross your way across Baja – almost to the Pacific Ocean side,...
On the road from Catavina I have completely lost track of the day of the week. Also a perma-grin is beginning to set in. These two things could conceivably be correlated. The only reason I even look at the time is when I’m driving to figure out where I’ll be by dark....
The Road from Mike's Sky Rancho I had a pretty good night’s sleep at Big Mike’s Sky Rancho . I went outside once and it was bitterly cold. When I got up the next morning to go to breakfast, I bundled up, went outside, and it was already t-shirt weather at 8am....
On the road from La Bufadora Christmas Eve day started at La Jolla campground. I met the couple I had seen the night before in a white van that was obviously decked out for car camping. Super nice people from British Columbia - Mike and Kelley. They work summers in...
[Note: Please forgive me while I figure out pretty much everything about how I want to do this blog - level of detail, tone, how to break up posts, style, whether I want to capitalize every word or just the first word of the blog title, the difference between "an...
So my departure is delayed a day due to my car apparently needing two days worth of work 🙁 Not the most auspicious start to a journey. My friend Diana warned me that things would go wrong until Mercury was out of retrograde and it's not the best time to start a trip....
Well I've been fighting with various map/route plugins for a few hours. I'm not happy with any of them, so for now you just get a nice screenshot! Things can and will change constantly of course, but here's the opening semblance of a plan: Leave Wednesday (the...
Not gonna lie - some panic is starting to seep in. My TODO list now spans two full columns of my Excel spreadsheet (NOTE: I started writing this blog post a few weeks ago, and the TODO list is now thankfully much smaller) and doesn't seem to do anything but grow. And...
Things are starting to get real. I think I'm almost done buying stuff for the trip. See details and pics below. Recent purchases: Tuffy locking storage box for the back of the FJ Garmin Montana 610 GPS (works for hiking or road travel) International and Inter-America...
Rough and partial list of stuff I need to accomplish before the end of the year, crossed out stuff is done. PLEASE let me know what I'm forgetting: learn Spanish - I spent 6 weeks with an immersive tutor - learned a lot but I feel like I forgot it all already. So...