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The Seven-Day Rain
It has been a solid week of rain. Yeah, it let up a couple of times to a light drizzle but the sun peaked out seldom. Today, it broke through in all its glory and ...
Carnival, Crash and Leaving Mexico
It has been awhile since I have posted. I had to recover from getting hit by two motorcycles. And a golf cart. They look innocent here. I was sitting on a curb in Isla Mujeres drawing the Hotel Bartolome when a young girl backed her golf cart into two motorcycles which then fell on my […]
Friendly Faces in Isla
We had boat guests on Friday. It was great fun to catch up with our Kiwi friend Peter Nielsen and meet his girlfriend, Jo. We had tacos and Cuba Libres in our cockpit and caught up on news about mutual sailing friends. We met Peter (above) at Roatan last year. The Roatan happy hour was […]
Home Sweet Boat
We made it home on Saturday via Uber, airplane, taxi, ferry and feet. Kind of a long day and we were grateful to have not missed the last few ferry time slots to Isla. Our Valentine’s dinner was a perfect way to end our trip last Friday. We had been on the lookout in Queretaro […]
Heart day and hauraches in Queretaro
Today is the last full day of our ten day Queretaro-area trip. We decided to eat cheap for lunch and splurge for dinner. So we headed down to the mercado where we knew there are lots of cheap food vendors. The problem at the mercado is selection. We walked around and noticed that, of the […]
Looking for Mariano in Guanajuato
We don’t really know much about Guanajuato except what we’d heard about old Mariano. Us leaving San Miguel de Allende Robert Earl Keen is one of our fav singer-songwriters. We’ve belted out silly lines like “He was a Mexican. We didn’t know what to think of him until he sang ‘Feliz Navidad, Feliz Navidad’ too […]
Walking All Over San Miguel
We are getting miles of walking in everyday. Five to six miles each morning and another shorter walk in the evening. There is a nice bus system in town with four lines spreading out through town. But we really want to stroll, take pictures and see the views. Not every church is huge. But every […]
Colores de San Miguel de Allende
We have probably given people the impression that traveling by bus is only for real road warriors like us willing to dehydrate themselves in the name of budget travel. So it is funny that yesterday, we got off the bus in San Miguel de Allende and Randall said, “I am not traveling by airplane anymore. […]
Queretaro (K-ray-tuh-row)
Queretaro used to be hard to say. Now it rolls of my tongue every time I turn a corner here and exclaim, again, “Oh my gosh! Queretaro (K-ray-tuh-row) is amazing!” We arrived yesterday and got settled into our Airbnb rental. It is a very modern building set behind one of the many nondescript metal doors […]
Workout Day and Packing
We are packing today for our trip to Queretaro and San Miguel de Allende. It shouldn’t take long as we can only take one small backpack each. Mural by Artists Barbara Siebenlist and Fredo Kenrin at Casa Oasis. Gorgeous colors. When I was cooped up in the polar vortex at Basecamp Nyango last month, Randall […]
Jan’s Excellent Adventure
Jan and I have been to Mexico once before. Thanks to our niece, Jada, getting married there, we visited Playa del Carmen about 20 years ago. Our first day there, Jan, our Dad and I decided to ride a banana float pulled by a jet ski. This ended with Jan getting a broken nose when […]