“Real” Colonial Charm

Dan After winding our way through the tight one way streets of San Gil, where I may or may not […]

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The Copper Canyon with questionable maps. Part three.

The Copper Canyon had provided its fair share of ups and downs. Both literally and figuratively. This graph plotting the altitude recorded by our GPS  tells the story best. The lowest points on the drive were close to sea level, with the roads reaching the altitude of 2500m above sea level (8200 feet). Combined with all the […]

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The Copper Canyon with questionable maps. Part one.

We left with a Map. Well, OK, that isn’t entirely true. We left with a scrap of paper with the names of a couple of towns we would need to drive through written on it. Since we were in the neighbourhood, we thought we might as well pay a visit to the famous Copper Canyon […]

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Mexico

Our final morning in the USA was not off to a great start. “So. Have you seen the passports?” Well, the last time either of us remembered seeing them was two days earlier in a hotel room in San Luis Obispo. Several hours drive away, on the other side of Los Angeles. Several deep breaths […]

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Follow the Hound; Find the Hound.

To those who know our hound, it will come as no surprise to know that once again, he ran away. Deep in the Polish Masurian Lakes, surrounded by a river on three sides and with a lake taking up most of the other, with only one bridge to one hamlet as the only civilisation in…

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Adventures with Javier

A lot of the time on this trip Emma is the chief Navigator. But sometimes Emma takes a nap and lets Javier, our Spanish-speaking, slightly scatterbrained GPS take charge of the navigational guidance. When we are in a big city with lots of freeways and on-ramps and off-ramps and seriously confusing spaghetti junctions, this can […]

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