• Travel Summary: Pacific Coast

    We're done with our time on the Pacific and it is time to provide a quick overview of what we learned...

  • An Exercise in Spelling

    Zihuatanejo. If you pay attention to the cultural zeitgeist at all, you've heard of it, maybe without realizing...

  • Finding a New Path

    I suppose I knew I was pushing our comfort too far, that I was deliberately setting us up for discomfort, choosing the more difficult route. I knew this and went ahead and did it anyway...

  • Christmas at the Beach

    For two weeks in the middle of December, I had scheduled very little at all; extended stays where the only things to worry ourselves with was whether to swim in the morning or the afternoon...

  • Madness in Mazatlán

    I've been searching for a way to neatly summarize Mazatlán, but it won't reduce to something easy...

  • La Paz: Tale of Two Cities

    Our guide book tells us that everyone ends up in La Paz. I thought I knew what to expect and it really wasn't that at all...