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Finding fun at the tourist madness of Xochimilco

Xochimilco – a quintessential tourist trap, in which a non-mexican will likely get lost in and pay dearly for each and every step around it.  It is crowdy, loud and saturated in seasoned sellers of...

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Spanish sabbatical in San Cristobal de las Casas

Welcome to our home for the next month. Here is how it all happened – learn how experienced travelers make such important decisions. Or how not to do it. We arrived in San Cristobal de las Casas a...

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My 4th birthday on the road – Mexico

When we started I never would have thought that we would last this long. Never in my deeply and wonderfully disturbed dreams did I see myself taking a picture of my freshly-minted 38 year old self in...

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Snails in Mexico look just like…snails

Having a big yard and plentiful rains, daily, regularly, mercilessly keeping things wet and green results in a) surprisingly clean car; b) perpetually wet feet; and c) children knee deep in snails....

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Our time in San Cristobal de las Casas has come to an end

After almost 6 weeks, we finally gathered our wits about us and left San Cris behind. San Cristobal de las Casas is not Cancun or any other flashy place you may think of when Mexico is mentioned. It...

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Mexico’s magical villages – Pueblos Magicos

Big cities, even in ‘developing’ countries, provide the expected.  But as they say, good things come in small packages, and in the case of travel, it often proves to be the truth. While the cities...

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The Guatemala that finally won me

I have been waiting to visit Guatemala for awhile now. In the traveling groups I badly try to keep up with, everybody raves about it, it is the favorite spot in Central America for just about all of...

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Winter on Toronto Islands

  I left you in Guatemala and what better follow up post than snow in Canada? Right?! This is our fourth winter while on the road and we are facing it, some of us less bravely than others, on the...

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Iceland on a painfully tight budget-worth it?

Take the population of Florence or New Orleans, move north, norther, yeah there, and sprinkle them on an island the size of – hmmm –  a bit more than Portugal or the state of Virginia and you will...

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Hyposettlingdown syndrome

Four and a half years of travel and the prospect of going back to a “home” is chilling me down to the bones. The longer traveling stories I have read or the people I know that have embraced a nomadic...

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