Category: Mexico

Nomad Life February 2022, Part 2

February 18 – 28, 2022. Welcome to the second half of the February 2022 Nomad Report. Currently, we are back in La Paz at a nice campground with hot showers after having made a loop around the southern tip of…

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Artful La Paz

February 13 – 16 We spent four days in La Paz. It is the capital city of Baja California Sur and as far as cities in Baja go, relatively big. It has a lovely malecón that stretches 5.5 km along…

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A Whale, Some Dolphins & Lots of Birds

February 9 -10, 2022 – Baja California Sur, Mexico. Kayaking with Wildlife in the Sea of Cortez Whale! Someone had spotted a whale not too far from our camping area on the western shore of the Sea of Cortez north…

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Nomad Life February 2022, Part 1

February 1 – 17, 2022. Welcome to the February Nomad Report. This is our monthly wrapup of where we’ve been, where we’re going, what we’ve been spending money on, and where we’ve camped. February’s Report will be divided into two…

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Borderlands

January 25 – February 1, 2020. Here is a tale… Illegal activity was being conducted in the middle of the Rio Grande south of Langtry, TX in 1896. A sand bar had been converted into a small arena and Ruby…

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Mexico 2018/2019 Cost of Being a Nomad

November 28, 2018 – March 10, 2019. Ok – I was going to do a regular expenses blog for the months of February and March but then I started thinking about how much money we spent all the months of…

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3 1/2 Months in Mexico by the Numbers

The end of November 2018 through 10 days in March 2019. It is time to wrap up Mexico with numbers and count up all the facts and figures and some of the other things we left out of our other…

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The End of our Mexican “Vacation”

March 3 – 10, 2019. It was morning and we had already been planning to move on when we got a knock on the van. Greg slid open the side door to see two Policía with machine guns standing outside….

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Surreal Jungle

February 28 – March 2, 2019. After WWI artists and writers in the Surrealist movement sought to break with rationalism and unlock the powers of the unconscious mind. Their movement lasted until after WWII, influencing western thought and politics. Here…

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Into the Sierra Gorda

February 26 – 28, 2019. Sierra Gorda is a 95 square mile biosphere reserve spreading into four Mexican states. The terrain here is rugged. There are many waterfalls. And there are caves from which thousands of birds leave in the…

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