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Nomad Life & Expenses April 2023

It sounds like aliens coming to beam us up. The song of cicadas bubbles up into a crescendo of an electric hum. It lasts seconds before the noise bubbles away just to start again. There is a field between us…

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Nomad Life & Expenses March 2023

Lots happened in March – except for the one thing we were really hoping for, getting our van back. If you have been following along you may remember from February’s terribly tedious Nomad Report that Ballena Blanca’s (our van) transmission…

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Nomad Life & Expenses February 2023

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…

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Nomad Life & Expenses January 2023

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…

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Nomad Life & Expenses December 2022

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…

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Nomadic Life March 2022

  From the southern tip of Baja California Sur to Tucson, Arizona, we traveled over 1550 miles in March. We traversed long bumpy dirt roads, super-narrow highways, and lovely wide expensive toll roads. We dodged potholes and kept our distance…

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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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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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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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January 2019 Cost of Being a Nomad

Wow! January was our cheapest month of tracking expenses since I started doing so in February of last year! I don’t know if it is just all the stars lining up, that we are getting better about spending money, or…

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