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 two.

So how far can two overland monkeys with no maps get exploring the infamously labyrinthine roads of Mexico’s Copper Canyon region? It turns out that they can make it pretty far. The Copper Canyon region actually consists of several different canyons covering an area approximately six or seven times larger than the Grand Canyon in the United […]

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Unwinding on the coast

After all the driving around we’d been doing in the USA, followed by some off-road adventuring around the mountainous back roads of Baja. It was time to slow down and enjoy the beach again. There is very little to report about our time in San Felipe. We simply spent several mornings and evenings on the beach, watching […]

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Baja—apparently not just sunshine and sandy beaches

After a week relaxing on the beach south of Rosarito, recovering from zipping all over the USA like mad people, it was time to get moving again. We just didn’t move very far. A short roll down the coast to La Bufadora, just south of Ensenada had us arriving at what must have been the best […]

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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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