adios Guatemala – Hola El Salvador!

adios antigua January 15th. Sadly, all good things must come to an end. We’ve absolutely loved our time in Antigua, the city, the culture, the hiking, the food, and everyone we met. But as the sun keeps turning, so must our wheels, and now it’s time to move on. Today, we’re heading towards the Guatemala-El […]

Gorgeous guatemala

finding time to write January 6th. Finding time to sit and write isn’t easy.  Between school, researching, navigating, hiking volcanoes & exploring it’s not easy to find uninterrupted time to write. More often than not, each blog entry is written over several days, with multiple trains of thought, so I apologize if entries sound disjointed. […]

beaches & borders

Turtle Beach, Jan 1 Just an hour down the road, the coastline changes again, picturesque bays give way to long coastal beaches. Our next camp wasn’t easy to reach—Google Maps led us astray, though not entirely its fault, we had missed a small, hand-painted, tree branch obscured, sign pointing the way… doh! After a couple […]

Don Taco’s – San Augustin Bay

December 27 – 31 We climbed out of Zipolite, making a stop in the next town for provisions and diesel. With no air conditioning, the stifling 38°C heat had us melting in the cab, so the kids’ new fans were put to good use. Our next stop is a favourite amongst the travelling community and […]