We left our lovely but cold camp spot at Joshua Tree and headed south to the border. The wind had kicked up overnight and was gusting strongly for the entire day, making me glad that Jim was doing the driving. We passed the Salton Sea,…
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La Paz Part II The Long Way Down When we left La Paz last year, the only thing that made it seem even remotely ok was the knowledge that we would be returning for another winter. Only this time, we would be driving down –…
So, we’ve been in La Paz for about 4 months now. Plenty of time to get very comfortable with how things work, where to go and how to get along. On our second to the last day here, we decided we needed just one more…
Since coming back to Vancouver Island in March of 2019, we have rarely left our island home. To anyone living elsewhere, this might seem very strange. Don’t we miss the excitement of the big city of Vancouver? Don’t we feel constricted living on an island? …
We have been good. Really really good. We have followed the rules, worn our masks, gotten our vaccinations and still we cannot travel beyond our borders (at least by land, that is). And we are getting just a bit frustrated – make that a lot frustrated. We had…
What do wanderers do when they can’t wander? Over a year ago we were called home due to the pandemic. At the time we just worried about getting across the border and then surviving the two weeks of quarantine. How were we, who spent the…
We arrived in Yosemite in the sunshine with the weather still chilly enough to need our sweatshirts. The great part about visiting Yosemite in early March is that the teaming hoards of tourists haven’t quite gotten there yet, and so we got to experience a…
Leaving Joshua Tree, we continued our journey out to the West Coast. It had been a while since we had seen the Pacific Ocean and we were excited to dip our toes back in it – especially since the last time we’d done that was…
Continuing our journey westward, we landed in the small town of Twenynine Palms, CA. I am assuming that somewhere in the vicinity are 29 very cool looking palm trees, but we were on the hunt for the entrance to Joshua Tree National Park. Turns out…
We left Tuscon and headed north towards Phoenix with baseball on our minds. The spring baseball practice league, referred to as the Cactus League contains several teams who are located in the Greater Phoenix area. My favourite team, The Seattle Mariners, play out of Peoria…
