FMFAC Volunteering: K9 Rancho Del Perro

We are excited to share our first volunteer film project for Filmmaker For A Cause! While we love to travel and live life overland, the core mission of our trip is to volunteer for Filmmaker For A Cause (www.fmfac.org). We will shoot 1-2 films for selected non-profits in each country we travel through. There is a team in the US […]

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Unexpected Luxury and Romance on a Cargo Ship

We couldn’t take Baja Ferry with a puppy so we ended up on a cargo ship, and we’re so glad we did! You’ll never guess why.

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A Time Warp in the Baja Desert.

We got lost in space-time amidst the landscapes of Bahia de los Angeles. See the video and read all about it here.

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A night at Tecolote Beach

Tecolote Beach is just a short drive outside of La Paz, B.C.S., Mexico.  All the Mexicans from La Paz love Tecolote and so do the all the travelers.  It offers a few miles of sandy beach, crystal clear water, spectacular free camping, and half a dozen restaurants with bars.  This is THE spot.  I give the Mexicans of La Paz credit […]

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Camping in the clouds at 10,000 Feet

One of the amazing things about Baja is the diversity of the peninsula. From beach to cactus prairie to boulder fields to mountains it’s an amazing place. We have set out to visit and experience some of the less common places on the peninsula and with that in mind we headed to Parque Nacional San Pedro Martir national park. This […]

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The sun sets on our time in Baja

We expected to spend a couple of weeks exploring the southern end of the Baja peninsula and planned to arrange a ferry ride for ourselves and our Four Wheeled Ticket to Freedom sometime in January. First on the itinerary for our remaining time in Baja were the clear waters that lap the shores of the Cabo Pulmo National […]

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Four days on a beach

As usual, we had hit the road without much of a plan. People we had spoken to had suggested several great places near to Loreto which sounded like fantastic next destinations. However, hindered by our near complete lack of maps, Agua Verde was simply the place on that list that we accidentally stumbled upon next. We […]

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Loreto

Everywhere we travel, we tend to feel at home. Whether it is in the chaotic midst of a big city, alone on a cold windy mountain top, wandering the narrow alleys of a bustling market or lost in dusty back roads, far from the nearest store. But every now and again, we find somewhere where […]

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How we ended up not really giving the Pacific coast much of a chance

We were starting to feel like we didn’t really like the Pacific Coast of Baja. I know that sounds a bit rough, I mean we live on the Pacific Coast of New Zealand, you think we’d have a soft spot for its sister coast in Mexico. Perhaps it wasn’t that we disliked the Pacific Coast, […]

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More cacti, more sand, more stars… more of Baja

After a brief stint on the narrow and shoulderless Highway 1, we took our first opportunity to get back to the peaceful coast of the Sea of Cortez—via Bahía De Los Ángeles. It was here that we spotted our first roof dogs of the trip and started to really feel like we were in Mexico. As we […]

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Baja—apparently not just sunshine and sandy beaches

After a week relaxing on the beach south of Rosarito, recovering from zipping all over the USA like mad people, it was time to get moving again. We just didn’t move very far. A short roll down the coast to La Bufadora, just south of Ensenada had us arriving at what must have been the best […]

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Back on the Baja, Baby!

When last I wrote to you guys, I told you how excited I was to finally get back to the Baja peninsula. It had been a long time, and on our way south the Baja was nothing but fun. Well, clearly My Family was just as excited as I was, because the alarm went off […]

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Ojo de Liebre

We could have stayed on santispac for a month… and in the future may well do just that.  But for now, we move forward.  Ben has already left portland heading south and we have a few days to make it north to Guerro Negro where we plan to meet.  We …

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South South Dakota

One thing we were quick to notice after arriving in town was the suspicious number of South Dakota license plates. You could easily walk around town and maybe half of all the vehicles would be sporting The Mount Rushmore State‘s placas. Now that winter and the busy season is coming, those cars now mingle with […]

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Gecko Poop, Inc.

We shared our casita with a variety of little creatures. We had a snake. We had scorpions. Two mice (that we could catch). Roaches, crickets, and lot’s and lots of other bugs. We could have done without most of these, but we liked the geckos. They make a loud kissing/screeching sound at night and will […]

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Last Day of School

In Mexico, I went to a school (it was in Spanish). We did a lot of math (like 2 hours of math every day).  Every Friday, we had art (well that was what they said, we never actually did art). On Wednesday, we had P.E. They took us to a basketball stadium to play soccer […]

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Cabalgatas

Postponed by the hurricane, and a few hundred caballeros short – we still went out to watch the cowboys come into town. It really is a beautiful event, even more so in a community so deeply affected by Hurricane Odile. Keep calm, carry on. There are usually demonstrations of trick riding, dancing horses, roping, forging, […]

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Playa Balandra

Life is good.
Life is very good.
Adios, amis! Bon voyage y suerte!

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TJ Crossing

It didn’t occurred to me that I’ve never driven across the border from Mexico into the U.S. until I started getting close. Tijuana was our first try. We got lost. Driving around Tijuana wasn’t so bad, but following the signs to the border was a joke. I think we missed every on-ramp and circled 4 […]

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Back to Ensenada

We booked it all the way back to Ensenada in one long day. Every hour I pulled over to monitor the oil leak. Still leaking. I can’t fix it either, since you need a special tool to get the oil filler off and all my attempts at fashioning a tool on the fly haven’t worked. There’s […]

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