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Dec 23-24 Christmas Eve

We spent the next day resting and recovering from our big adventure the day before  We found out that all the kids from the orphanage were coming to the hotel to spend Christmas so on Christmas…

Dec 20-21 Guatemala or Bust!

In the morning one of the Spanish speaking hotel staff took Holly to the hospital to get a rabies shot  No need for Olivia to sit around hospital so I took Olivia for a walk along the beach and…

Dec 19 DOG ATTACK!

We got back on the road early in the morning and arrived in Tapachula by 4 PM  We drove through the town and down to the beach town Puerto Madero  This is a very small poor beach town who’s only…

Dec 18 Border Run

We had spent an uneventful couple of months at the Oaxaca Campground and time flew by swiftly We celebrated several holidays including Halloween where we got together with a couple of campground…

Underappreciated FIRE tactic.

There are many paths to Financial Independence/Retire Early with countless articles written about saving money, living below your lifestyle and investing  However, one overlooked tactic is to…

Oct 24-25, Back to Oaxaca

We had originally planned to go to the Yucatan peninsula after San Miguel  Our friends Matheu and Stacey had returned to Mexico and our original plan was to meet up with them and go to the…

Oct 19-23 Financial review and dinner out

The next few days we mostly hung around the San Ramon RV park and relaxed  One important thing we did was to have a financial advisor review our finances and budget to double check that we were…

Oct 17-18 Hanging around San Miguel

The weekend had come around again and we decided to go into town for lunch  Unlike the first time we were here we now knew how to get around so we just went to the main road and waved down the…

Oct 15-16, Back were we started.

The first full day back in San Miguel we just stayed in the RV relaxing and catching up on homeschooling  We didn’t feel the need to rush out to the town because we had been here before …

Oct 11-13 Chilling in Queretaro

We spent the next couple of days hanging out with Sergio and his family  We really didn’t do anything special, we had a BBQ, took the kids to the park and basically hung around  Olivia…

Oct 10 How the Other Half Lives.

Holly and Olivia went to the local farmer’s market with Sergio and his family while I had a nice lazy morning sleeping in and catching up on my writing  They returned just in time for us to…

Oct 9, On the road to Queretaro

We had a four hour drive an all day to do it so after final packing and dumping our sewer we were on the road at a leisurely 10AM  It was another lovely day, perfect for driving  We ran…

Oct 8, Picnic!

It was another lovely day in Valle de Bravo so we decided to have a picnic lunch  Holly packed a big box with sandwiches and snacks  We packed everything down to the shore and had a lovely…

Oct 6 & 7 The Secret of Valle de Bravo

A really unique RV arrived with a French family with two boys right around Olivia’s age so we stayed in the park for the day and allowed Olivia a chance to play with some kids It was a hand-made…

Oct 5, Valle de Bravo town

We had a lazy morning of homeschooling and enjoying the nice weather After lunch we took a collective taxi into Valle de Bravo for 60 pesos  A collective taxi is basically a regular car taxi…

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