The Travel blog
Stories and crazy shit that happens...Welcome back!
When you convert 166 days into months...it's 5.5 months that we were gone! So welcome home......as expected….it was cold when we got back to Alberta. It wouldn’t have mattered if it was 25C or 5C IT. WAS. COLD. to us snowbirds! The Alberta spring temps are more like...
Damn you, Rachel!
After we left Mexico, we wanted to do a bit of shopping before heading north so we checked into our favourite Tucson campground …. Gilbert Ray and then spent the day shopping at Target, Costco, Ross and the liquor store. Both of us also wanted to spend time staring at...
Gracias Mexico – Thanks for having us
We had a week left in the La Penita RV Park once we returned from our 12-day inland tour. Many park dwellers were scheduled to leave on the following Tuesday, so we made sure to exchange digits as we said our goodbyes, before the caravans of travelers departed for...
The longest one yet
It took us a while to realize that we could leave our Ruby parked / stored in the RV park while we take off on a driving trip for a vacation! As the park was beginning to thin out in Mid-March, we opted to go inland on an 11 day tour through the main cities of...
We were late to the party!
We were invited to go on a beach day with some park friends on a Friday. We convoyed down the highway to a town called Los Lomas and then headed straight west towards the beach. Another typical secondary desert/dust/cobblestone road where 4-wheel drive was an asset!...
Like Sands through the hourglass
The last night with our friends had us dining in Guayabitos at Restaurante Penida. Todd and I had been wanting to go to this place for weeks and we thought Les and Wendy’s last night was the perfect opportunity. We had a table overlooking the beach; the ambiance was...
Life’s a Beach
We have been living on this beach since Jan 7 and have to say its pretty surreal to look out the window and see it everyday! The worse part about it was the sickness that royally kicked us in the ass for the first 5 days and then just wouldn’t leave us alone for 3...
Biking the Gringo Highway
Departed Mazatlan around 7:30. Heading down to La Penita RV park – about an hour and fifteen north of Puerto Vallarta. We were heading here to check out all the RV parks in the area, to see what we liked, what was available, and where we can get a big rig in for when...
Its good to get off the farm
We’ve been in Mazatlán now for a couple of weeks and are starting to get an understanding of the layout and how things operate – Todd's nailed the driving again, which is a feet in itself. When we tour in Ruby, we typically plan a few daytrips to surrounding towns or...
I didn’t come to Mexico for filet mignon
If you've been following along, you probably read the last post that we ended up at the Las Jaibas RV park in Mazatlan (north end). Mazatlan is the Pearl of the Pacific and shrimp capital of the world! We spent the first couple days just chilling and figuring out our...
San Carlos….you were superb!
We loved our quick stop at Gilbert Ray Campground, we were up early the next day to pack-up, head to Costco for one last pickup of things before we cross into Mexico. The plan was to stay overnight, close to the border so we could get our large amount of laundry done...
Junior Seniors
We have officially dubbed ourselves the Jr Seniors and for our first trip as such, we planned to depart down south on or around Nov 4. We were ready to go…Ruby was packed to the gills, Trixie was equally as packed and as we started the bus to back her out of her RV...
The BIG Reno
This blog post is probably long overdue for some of you! We started talking about our big reno plan last fall, so thanks for your patience. We are finally ready for the big reveal. BUT first we want to tell you all about the things we did…starting with the exterior:...
Banana’s, boats and beaches
Our second trip out to Vancouver Island to take our sweet Grand Adventure out on a 2-week cruise started on Oct 1. We opted to drive out, since we needed a car to get us and a ton of supplies to the boat for 2 weeks. An overnight pitstop at the Holiday Inn Express...
The post of many names
I'm letting you know that you probably need an entire pot of coffee for this post...its a long one. As part of our grand master list this year of major reno’s, which we have yet to fully show off, we also had to do a few major exterior upgrades. The solar was pretty...