Last night we landed and tried to figure out the colectivo shuttles from the Cancún airport to the centro. It only took 1 convo with a woman in a tourist office shirt trying to sell us ‘beneficios’ for visiting a certain hotel and 1 Super Shuttle woman confiding in us not to use our credit card because of the extra… Read more →
Category: Outdoors
Death Valley National Park
For Sofia’s birthday we chose to go to Death Valley and spend time in nature. It’s healing. We meant to see the “super bloom,” but it had mostly passed. We went up to Thorndike campground in the Panamint Mountains at 8,500, and hiked almost halfway up to Telescope Peak, which is at about 11,300 feet altitude. We heard there were more… Read more →
Joshua Tree
A 3-day weekend in Joshua Tree. We missed the turnoff for the West entrance so entered the park from the South entrance for the first time ever. We camped at Black Rock campground and took an 11 mile out and back hike to Lost Palms Oasis. Read more →
Big Sur, Limekiln State Park
On our way up to Sofia’s uncle’s retirement party in San Jose, we stopped in Big Sur and camped at Limekiln State Park for a night. We had a lovely campsite (#23) near the river and the redwoods trail to the old kilns used to extract limestone in the 1800’s. A lovely night under the stars! At the lime kilns… Read more →
Hot Springs in Taos, NM
