If you need to escape, remove yourself from your normal life, avoid the authorities and/or friends and family, we have just the place. It is remote. It is beautiful.
It will be difficult, if not impossible, to do justice to the three Mayan sites which we have seen in the past week. Tulum, Coba and Palenque. Why? Because even with a guided tour, you […]
Stories about the old days are dull. I’ve tried to regale the girls with stories of poste restantes, long-distance bus trips and dysentery and they look at me as if I’m talking in swahili.
There were a few warning signs. The pilates teacher in Costa Rica who said “I used to live in Tulum and when it got too much I came here.” The American we met a few […]
We are halfway through our travels – and very much alive, enjoying our new freedom, healthy and excited EVERY day. We are having a ball. Yesterday we said a sad farewell to Costa Rica. We […]
(Esterillo Este at 5.40am today) Generally we are taught, and we learn, the value of persistence. Of determination. Of focus and staying set on a goal until it is reached. We are taught, and we […]
We love each other and life is good but there are times when we see too much of each other. Like on car journeys.
From ants to surfing to rafting to toucans we are doing what you come here to do. We have even bought Pura Vida t-shirts. In that vein we present some video from this morning of […]
[The Arenal volcano in cloud, or at least that is the rumour] It is all too easy to get stuck in Nosara. The blissful schedule of surf-swim-eat-repeat is too potent, too fulfilling and this place […]
[Image c/o https://twitter.com/NWSElPaso – it is the official insect of New Mexico] We are bingeing on Mother Nature but I’ve tried to limit the flora and fauna facts and figures. There have been photos and […]
Travels with my Family 