We left Jake and Kelsey last Wednesday. They were headed to Canada for a quick visit before starting a new job at Orcas Island. We headed south to see The Three Gallegos – Floyd, Lauren and Archer. We met The Gallegos’ back in St. Pete’s in 2012 and in Key West in ’14 so it […]
We headed up to the Cascades on Friday. Jake and Kelsey had already spent a little time camping in the area but had not hit many hiking trails. The weather for them had been cold and drizzly forcing them to dig out their winter coats. Yikes! I didn’t even have a winter coat on board […]
During the Grand Canyon and Arches visits, Lily kept reminding us that the goal, the reason, the driving force of the road trip was one thing: getting to see Jake and Kelsey. She was unpersuaded that we might regret speeding past such marvels as the Grand Canyon. We agreed after seeing Arches that the “Rush […]
We headed to Moab on Monday. On the way, Randall says, “Is it Mo-ab (long A) or Mo-ahb (short A).” “I am not sure” was my reply but by my internal voice was saying “Mo-ahb?? No way. Where does he get these ideas?” I don’t know why I am so certain of my hunch. I […]
We had a great month-long visit with family in Oklahoma. However, we really wanted to get started on our Pacific Northwest Road Trip to see Jake and Kelsey. We spent part of the time back home looking at RVs and finally settled on a 21-foot Coachmen StarFlyte Camper Van. It is the perfect size – […]
We had a fun dinner with Scott, Tracy, Will and Molly at MonoLoco last night to celebrate Molly’s sixth birthday. They come up to Antigua occasionally to escape the Rio heat and the unrelenting demands of managing Nana Juana. We spent hours talking about life in the Rio and life back home – theirs’ in […]
We went for coffee this morning and I grabbed a copy of the local newspaper. There is an ongoing investigation into political corruption in Guatemala. There is extensive news coverage and local marches demanding reform. We caught a bit of a political march this weekend here in Antigua although, unfortunately, our Spanish is not good […]
We awoke this morning to the cool Antigua air streaming into the open windows. We got a room at the Posada Juma Ocag for all five nights here. Our pretty wood windows have metal security bars and also look out onto the hotel’s small private courtyard so there are no worries about uninvited guests creeping […]
We went to Fronteres yesterday to purchase bus tickets for Friday’s day-long trip to Antigua. Getting into town is a 20 – 30 minute walk from Ram – across the bridge over Rio Dulce and down into the ongoing commerce melee that sits at the bottom of the other side. At the top of the […]
Well, we made it out of the water yesterday. It took awhile because we fell for that “we have a working pump-out station” story. We sat for three hours at the pump out station while five guys tried to get the pump-out pumping. A sixth guy was finally called for. He could not figure out […]