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December 21, 2022 – January 4, 2023 Mexico just like the US is made up of a collection of states. And just like the states in the US, each state in Mexico has different things that make it unique and special. If one were to ask me of the 32 Mexican states what my favorite…

Ballena Blanca’s transmission called it quits. After over 160,000 miles, back and forth across North America, up and down crazy dirt roads, zooming along on highways, in heat, cold, and rain, we are facing the most dreaded van repair. Here is the short version of the story… On February 1st Ballena Blanca started making a…

  December 15 – 17, 2022. Real de Catorce is one of those places that I’m glad we made the effort to visit. And a bit of effort it was. This town sits nestled in the Sierra de Catorce mountain range at about 8800 feet in the state of San Luis Potosí. The journey there…

December 7 – 17, 2022. When you tell people you are going to Mexico you get all kinds of reactions. Our favorite is “How exciting!” But there are also those whose first thought is to give you warning, “Be careful,” they say, “It’s dangerous!” And then there are the people who wonder why we’d want…

Sickness and seeing our new Friends again On January 1 woke up feeling seriously ill. Of course, I just assumed it was a hangover. The previous night’s festivities were quite fun and involved a bit of mescal. But I should have known it was more than the repercussions of ringing in the new year. I…

December was a mix of good and bad. It was a big month that started out in San Antonio, Texas, and finished in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico. Computer Problems in San Antonio… Our month started off in San Antonio, Texas. We were ready to go to Mexico, we just had one problem. My…

August 25 – September 1, 2022 It was late August and almost time for us to leave Alaska and start heading south. But I had one more place I wanted to go. To Deadhorse, north of the Arctic Circle, 415 miles up the Dalton Highway as far as one can drive in North America. In…

Alaska is home to many mountains. We’ve already posted about the Kenai and Chugach mountains, and the Wrangell and Saint Elias chains. Our next stop was the Alaska range, which forms a 600-mile-long arch north of all these. The tallest Peak in this range, and in all of North America, is Denali. This peak and…

August 13 – 16, 2022. After McCarthy and Wrangell-St Elias, we drove to Valdez. Like us, you may be most familiar with the name Valdez from the oil spill in Alaska. In 1989 a supertanker, the Exxon Valdez, left the port in the city of Valdez and hit a reef in Prince William Sound just…

August 11 & 12. After watching the surfers on the Bore tide it was time to leave the Anchorage area again and head to new adventures. We had two destinations in mind that were roughly in the same direction, Valdez and Mccarthy. To get to either place from Anchorage we would drive northeast on the…