Category: Mexico Travel

I had set our alarm for 6:30 AM and we were on the road by 7.  We had not gotten up this early in a very, very long while but we had many, many miles to go.  We sped ever north off the great central Mexican plateau and as we descended the mountain the environment…

After two busy days of packing and preparing we were ready to head back to the US.  We had to do standard maintenance on Rover, clean everything, and pack everything back into Rover.  Our landlord had no problem with us leaving early since we paid off the entire lease.  It is a little sad to…

After a bit over a year it looks like our days of hiding out from the pandemic are coming to the end.  We had enjoyed our time in the house and it was very nice to be able to stretch out.  The terrain around our house looked a lot like Arizona, hot, dry and dusty. …

January 24, 2021 We had a quiet New Years and continued to follow the news and events going on around the world, particularly in regards to the pandemic.  As January wore on it became clear that with the slow vaccine rollout that there was no realistic way that we would be able to get the…

Today was finally the day that Holly could get her second rabies shot and we could go home.  It was pretty uneventful, we drove back to Puerto Madero in the morning and Holly was able to get her shot no problem.  Then we started on our drive back to Oaxaca.  We had to go through…

We have some IHG (Holiday Inn) credit cards that offered yearly free night certificates.  Like many people during the pandemic had not used some of them and they expired at the end of the year.  While many other hotel chains were extending the expiration of the unused certificates, IHG decided to issue a new certificate…

Dec 25, 2020 Christmas day arrived and Olivia was up early looking for her Christmas gift from Santa.  Lucky for me she had asked for a couple of new games for her Nintendo Switch so I was able to simply buy and download them directly to her Switch. Shhhh… don’t tell her. Olivia was very…

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 Eve we went back to the mall in Tapachula to get some gifts for the kids.  We had a…

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 we had lunch at a nice seaside restaurant.  The food was decent there but a When…

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 tourists are from Tapachula.  Most of the streets are unpaved and there are quite a…