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 […]
We made our way from Santa Catalina, Panama and scuba diving to Boquete, Panama with its coffee plantations, mountains and beautiful scenery. Boquete (bo-kay-tay) is a popular place for North American expats to retire. Panama has some pretty incredible retirement benefits for those who are over a certain age, have a certain amount of money in […]