After leaving Arches National Park, we headed to Spanish Fork, Utah to visit our two sisters and their families. We opted to camp out on the shores of Lake Utah in a lovely campground called Lakeside Campground. We hung out a day or two and decided to head to the Bonneville Salt Flats on our […]
Driving Arches National Park- Moab, Utah We love to drive! Road trips are kind of our thing. When we decided to drive from California and do some of the National Parks of the United States, we were surprised to see how easy it was to drive around Arches National Park. We first stopped off at Fishlake […]
Driving Arches National Park in Moab, Utah is right up our alley! We are not hikers in anyway, shape or form. If you want to see incredibly beautiful rock formations on a nice leisurely drive, in some of the most stunning landscape on the planet? Arches National Park just north of Moab, Utah in the eastern […]
Palenque – Chiapas, Mexico Palenque – Chiapas, Mexico is an incredible Mayan Ruin Site nestled in the jungle. This gallery of photos shows some of the bas-reliefs, sculptures, paintings, and architecture that makes this place so special and quite possibly the best Mayan site in Mexico, rivaling Chichen Itza. From the Temple of Inscription and […]
What? Better than Chichen Itza? Better than Uxmal? Better than Tulum? I can hear the jostling of “Mayan Ruin Buffs” everywhere… sighing. The Mayan Ruins at Palenque are some of the best ruins, Mexico has to offer! The forest around the ruins are spectacular, the campgrounds nearby are great, the food in Chiapas is amazing […]
Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, México is a little known tourist destination in southern Mexico. With a population of over 600,000, it’s the largest and most developed city in the state of Chiapas. We crossed the border checkpoint at Talisman through the El Carmen Border near Tuxtla Chica. The border is smaller than Ciudad Hidalgo and we […]
Tuxtla Gutierrez Mexico We drove to Tuxtla by crossing into Mexico from Guatemala. No issues at the border minus an extensive search by an overzealous border agent. We spent a night in Tapachula to see if they had a way to fix our Jeep’s transmission. They said there was a Jeep Dealership in Tuxtla Gutierrez […]
Lake Atitlán, Guatemala (ah-teet-lahn) sits in a volcanic caldera known to have been created 1.8 million years ago. The lake is the deepest in Central America at over 1,100 feet at its deepest point. All this stuff didn’t really draw us to the lake however. What did was all the stories from other travelers that […]
Lake Atitlan, The Most Beautiful Lake In The World Lake Atitlan was a place we only wanted to visit for a few days, you know… drop in get to know it, then move on. Not so fast! This place wouldn’t losen it’s grip on us. It’s no wonder Aldous Huxley called it The Most Beautiful […]
What to say about the Chilean Patagonia except that it’s absolutely breathtaking scenery draws you in. We weren’t even going to go due to the high cost of everything there. We will never regret going! We made it to Puerto Natales, Chile where we rented a car, secured an AirBNB and got ready to drive […]