Category: Travel
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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 on track financially. We chatted with the advisor for about 2 hours going over all of our finances…
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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 #16 bus and paid 16 pesos to get into town. We went to the…
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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. San Miguel de Allende is a lovely quaint little town and was recently voted world’s best small city…
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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 had a great time playing with Sergio’s kids and we had a great time chatting and hanging around with Sergio…
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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 take an Uber to Sam’s house. His house was on the other side of town up a hill…
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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 into a number of rather expensive toll booths paying over $30 just in tolls. Right around…
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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 picnic in the warm sun with a light breeze blowing off the lake. It was an Instagram worthy…
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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 rig made completely of wood and built on an antique firetruck body. It looked really cool. …
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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 that functions as a bus, running a specific route, picking up and dropping off passengers along the way. The taxi…
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Oct 4, Valle De Bravo
We woke up in the morning with a about a four hour drive to Valle de Bravo. Since we had some extra time we went to the local Children’s museum but they were closed for the pandemic. However the Costco next door was still open so we went there instead. We really didn’t need anything…