Familiar grounds
steph For the first time since Baja (or backtracking our few times through San Cristóbal), we have arrived in a place that I’ve visited before–Nicaragua. Back in 2008, in the summer…
Honduras: a mixed bag
A lot of overlanders skip Honduras, mostly because of widespread police corruption on the 100-km Honduran stretch of the Pan-American highway, and the country’s reputation as the poorest and most…
Semana Salvador
We left Guatemala with little fanfare, having passed through the country in four weeks. Our last couple of nights we spent with Juan’s friend Rodolfo in Guatemala City. We got…
Into the woods
As much as we liked Oaxaca, there was one member of our party who was not a fan: Milo. Oaxaca de Juárez turned out to be one of the least…
BEST WEEK EVER
This was a week of many firsts. I went to my first hot-air balloon festival! We got here mostly by chance. We hadn’t planned to go to Léon, but Juan…
Goodbye Michoacán…
We’ve had an amazing month of November so far. After Day of the Dead in Pátzcuaro, we headed over to what may just be my favorite city so far in…
Yes, Michoacán!
After Tapalpa, we continued onto the town of Mazamitla by way of this “Ruta Ecoturista” (dirt road) that goes through a beautiful, mountainous forest. It would have been a nice…
Strange times
I’ve proven to be the first man down, in my unhappy new phase of Food Poisoning, All the Time. Juan made me go see a doctor when he noticed that…
A month to the mainland
Whenever people asked us about our route plans for this trip, we always started by saying, “We’re going to drive down Baja to La Paz and then take the ferry…