Travel Never Ends

I hesitated to continue writing these expense reports because they’re always the least viewed posts, and they’re not as relevant as they used to be when we were traveling on a strict budget. But I do the work in compiling them for our own use anyhow, so it’s not much more effort to share them.…

We are staying here in Valle de Bravo in order to see the Dia de Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebrations this coming weekend. Right after that, we will be taking the bus to the city of Oaxaca to meet up with our campervan Igor! From there, we’ll be heading to the beach town of…

A bit of a scary story today. I went to my paraglider training every morning last week. It involves leaving our house at 8:00am, fighting with the traffic getting into Valle at that hour, and meeting our paraglider friend Raul who then takes me on the back of his motorcycle another 40 minutes or so…

I’ve been doing ground training the last three days. We were supposed to do another tandem flight again the second day, but I was exhausted and couldn’t finish the training that day! And I thought I was in pretty good shape. Today went much better though, and although I’ve still got some ground training left,…

We were up at 6:00am in order to leave the house at 7:20am. We hopped on the ATV and drove into central Valle de Bravo. I don’t think we’ve ever had to go into town that early, and sure enough there is rush hour traffic! It looked like it was mostly related to parents taking…

Instead of our normal power walk around our neighborhood, we decided to hop on the ATV and go into town a little early and walk around Valle de Bravo. We were going in anyhow to go to the Sunday market, so it made sense to get a change of scenery. We stopped and said hello…

It was almost 40 years ago, in 1987, that Ruth and I both jumped out of a perfectly good airplane. At the time, tandem jumps where you go with an experienced jumper weren’t a thing yet. You hopped in a small airplane, flew up to 3,000 feet, they hooked a static line onto your parachute…

We woke up to a beautiful blue sky yesterday morning, so we hopped on the ATV and drove up towards the dam where there was a side road that led up a hill. Our map showed a trail up there, and we had never been up that way. We found a place to leave the…

Rainy season appears to be just about done, although we are still having some overnight rains. We’ve finally had some blue sky and sunshine though, so that’s nice. And we even had a bit of a colorful sunset for the first time since we arrived back. We went into town on Sunday to do some…

Since we returned here on October 5th, we haven’t seen much blue sky or sunshine. The temperature has been pleasant, with highs around 22C (70F), but there’s been a lot of clouds. We’ve had some rain too, but it’s been mostly overnight. I checked back to last year, and by October 8th the rains had…