So. Here we are. Sitting on our ugly-ass couch staring out at the bleak unforgiving urban environment of Toronto. We listen to the incessant drone of the filthy Gardiner Expressway as we mop decaying pigeon feathers from our sweaty brows in the humid summer heat. Our senses are pummeled by these inner city drudgeries, yet our minds are far away […]
Top 5 things to do in Yoho National Park
You’ve mosied on over to Yoho after immersing yourself in the splendor of Banff and Jasper National Parks. They’ve set the bar pretty darn high, and you don’t know how Yoho could ever compete with their epic landscapes and out-of-this-world experiences. But Yoho is the quiet achiever – around every corner is a natural wonder […]
Northern California explorations
April saw us cruising towards our next roadie destination of San Francisco. We were actually pretty darn excited to spend some time in a bustling metropolis for a while, having immersed ourselves in relatively untamed Californian wilderness for the past month. The focus of our extended North American road trip was national parks rather than cities, but […]
What to see in S. California: Joshua Tree, Sequoia and Yosemite!
Things back in Phoenix were dire. Reflecting our worst fears, the RV’s “time off” during our jaunt in Central America was apparently spent undoing all the expensive work we’d been getting done to it over the previous 4 months. A quick look under the hood indicated that rats had been at work on some of […]
Post traumatic latino recovery in LA
Having been disconnected from the civilized world for more than 5 months, we arrived back in the comparative normalcy of the United States ready to reconnect with a slightly less chaotic branch of humanity. We had chosen to make our foray back into the 1st world in the great bastion of American culture that is Los […]
Nicaragua – the final frontier
Having once more exceeded our tolerance for Caribbean island life (yes, it turns out such a thing is possible), the end of our last chapter saw us chugging across mainland Honduras towards the Nicaraguan border. After doing some research, we had placed ourselves in the capable hands of Omar from Tornabe Hostel, one of the […]
Underwater Awakenings in Ponderous Honduras
With a buildup of moisture in our eyes that could have been nostalgia at leaving such a wondrous place, or perhaps just an ocular defense mechanism to protect our vision from the vast clouds of particulates belting out of every vehicle which went ambling past us in the Guatemalan city of Antigua, we made plans […]
One glorious month in Guatemala
Having well and truly tired of Belize, it was time to move on to the tourist mecca of Guatemala. Guatemala is a must-see on the Central American gringo trail, offering bucketloads of natural and cultural attractions, purportedly friendly people, and a much more agreeable bang for your buck than un”belize-ably” pricey Belize. Guatemala was going […]
Two hectic weeks in Belize
Belize is a teenie tiny Central American nation sandwiched between the mighty bastions of Mexico and Guatemala. Generally speaking, it gains tourist acclaim from the island of Caye Caulker, an even tinier Caribbean island spec off the tiny Belizian mainland coast. Perhaps succumbing to a healthy dose of small island syndrome, Caye Caulker markets itself as […]