The Travel blog
Stories and crazy shit that happens...Chicxulub
A quick 2-day pitstop in Merida for Todd to get his implants installed. Managed to get 2 nights at the Hilton Garden Inn using points – this hotel was definitely located in US ex-pat central. Our hotel was attached to a mall with TGIFridays, and within a 2-block...
Shrimp to the coconut
About 2 ½ hours south of Campeche is the Ciudad del Carmen – its actually and Island with very large bridges connecting it on both sides to land. It was a beautiful drive down through jungle, mixed with ocean views. We had two stops – one in Seybaplaya – where Todd...
Funeral of the Bad Mood and the Rooster of Joy
It was a pretty quick drive down to Campeche – just over 2 hours south of Merida. I was very excited to get to Campeche – of course I first heard about it from my favorite RV youtubers (Dennis and Liz), a couple years ago. This place was on the bucket list! Campeche...
A Colorful Town
Both of us were looking forward to the Gulf coast side of Yucatan - to Merida / Campeche and Progresso. Merida is the “safest” city in Mexico – here is a link I found – I don’t need to write why, just click the link:...
What?! I can’t hear you
It was bittersweet saying goodbye to the fam…it was the end of a great vacation time, but the beginning of a new adventure for us in the next town of Tulum. Mexico has one main bus system that runs through the whole country called ADO. The tickets from city to city...
It’s called the spaghetti theory…
We opted to go south towards Tulum for the day to check-out the Tulum ruins – we had such a great time at Ek Balam that we were up for another set of ruins. It was an entertaining drive down the last 2 kms to the parking area – as everyone was vying for our parking...
This is a good car for 6 people
We managed the rest of our week in Puerto Morelos with an average of 15,000 steps per day (I’m sure half of those steps were to the grocery store) and Todd wanted to report in that we played 8 games of crib, took a total of 9 chicken buses and 2 taxi rides during out...
Learning to be OK in the slow lane (without Ruby)
When you live in western Canada and attempt to go south for the winter, it’s a long drive down through the US until you get somewhere that is warmer than where you started. Although we have only driven south twice for the winter, both times were after Christmas – so...
Boondocking in farm fields
As much as we love touring around in Ruby to great international places, we also enjoy driving her to local places for different events. In 2018 a friend told us about the “world famous” Wild Oats and Notes Music festival, just SW of Edmonton. The music fest took...
Maui there yet?
This transient life we live, sometimes allows us to leave our Ruby behind – lock her up and wave goodbye, while we get on a plane for adventures that don't involve driving. I had a United airline flight credit for $1200 from before covid lockdown and it kept getting...
May Long 2022
For the past 30 + years, Todd has gone out boondock camping in the bush near the Foothills of the Rocky Mountains with a large group of friends and family. This group has morphed over time to many members of all ages, different friend and family groups that come and...
The time we lived in Texas for 3 months
After 15 blogs about our life adventures down in Texas, it is so hard to sit here and summarize this amazing trip. There are so many great stories and life experiences that were had over the last 3.5 months, how does one just say “we did this and now we are done“....
Texas in the Rearview
We departed Meredith Lake before the wind picked up and pit-stopped in Dumas for “cheap” diesel. Ruby was running on fumes and needed a big fill – took about an hour to fill up her main tank and slip tank…for a measly $1500 US! From there we started climbing in...
Cowboys and Canyons in the Texas Panhandle
The entire month of March we were camped near or along lakes and/or oceans where the daytime high was an average of 33C and nighttime of 18C. Heading north up towards Amarillo area meant that we were going to climb in altitude, so day and night temps were changing– I...
A dud in the desert
Laredo was not our favourite. It’s a bordertown, which is fine, but next time we will plan better – we kind of got lazy with planning, once we decided that we liked to stay longer at campgrounds, and we figured since we were going to a state park, there should be lots...