Ancient ruins and the sounds of the apocalypse

Sometimes we find ourselves standing in places which really remind us what an amazing journey we are on. In these moments we stop, we take a deep breath, we look at each other and agree that we are truly fortunate to be here. That the decision to quit our jobs, sell our stuff and move into […]

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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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Go West

By this point we were clearly not strangers to the Interstate Highways of the USA. We wished we were, because, let’s face it, they make for some dull driving. But they are also the most efficient way to get from A to B when A and B are a long way from each other. That […]

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Colorado is closed. Part 2

Closed campgrounds, closed roads, closed parks, closed mountains, closed shops. Seriously Colorado! What is open? Great Sand Dunes National Park. That’s what. And it was spectacular. Not even closed a little bit. The dunes were huge, the tallest in North America apparently. Colorado does appear to like having ‘the tallest’ and ‘the highest’ of everything. It […]

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Adventures with Javier

A lot of the time on this trip Emma is the chief Navigator. But sometimes Emma takes a nap and lets Javier, our Spanish-speaking, slightly scatterbrained GPS take charge of the navigational guidance. When we are in a big city with lots of freeways and on-ramps and off-ramps and seriously confusing spaghetti junctions, this can […]

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Kam Wah Chung & co.

Kam Wah Chung & co is a time capsule from the 1940’s with some of its contents dating back even earlier. The building was home to Ing ‘Doc’ Hay and Lung On and centre of the local Chinese community. Functioning as a general store, clinic, place of accommodation and gathering place it was firmly established […]

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