Journey – Road trip adventures

Thinking of a road trip to Mexico's sunny Baja Peninsula? Here's what you need to plan your Baja RV trip budget. I bet it's cheaper than you think! ...

A friend of mine mentioned wanting to visit Mexico's Copper Canyon. I'd heard about this place ever since I was a kid, though I didn't know much about it. Looking at a few pictures convinced me - YES! Let's go!

(It's so hard to convince me to take a road trip!) 😉 ...

I was sitting in Tucson during June 2017, trying to work on some Zennie projects in temps that reached 115 degrees. 🙁 Eventually, I came to my senses, and realized that I shouldn't be there!

It was definitely time for a US road trip! My first thought was to get to some mountains, FAST, in search of high elevations, tall pine trees, and brisk alpine air... ...

Trip theme: Beaches and exploration!

I was following the Sonoran coastline, which of course involves beaches on the Sea of Cortez. And I was also planning to drive the "new highway" along the coast -- so new that it didn't even show up on any of my maps.

How could a trip like that not be a ton of fun? 🙂 ...

This is where Zennie and I started our travels - in the USA.

Wherever we've gone, we've discovered beautiful and fascinating places. Some are magnificent and awe-inspiring, others small and charming, but all of them are wonderful. You could spend a lifetime exploring the US, but there's still the rest of the world to see. 😀 ...

Me encanta Mexico! 🙂

This wonderful country is huge, with SO many beautiful beaches, friendly people, amazing ruins, picturesque peaks, and culinary delights. I love it, and Zennie and I are lucky we can spend serious time here, rolling slowly around the country and exploring many of its cool places. Yay! 😎 ...

Guatemala is a charming country with a difficult past. The beautiful colonial city of Antigua is littered with ruins of churches and monasteries that were demolished in various earthquakes.

The active volcanoes pose another threat. One morning I woke up in Quetzaltenango to find the streets covered in ash, but people there seem to take it in stride -- nothing unusual, nothing to worry about! 😮 ...

Modern South Korea is vibrant, organized, high tech, and democratic. The country's nickname "Land of the morning calm" belies its tumultuous past ...

Land of the Morning Calm Me encanta Mexico! This wonderful country is huge, with SO many beautiful beaches, friendly people, amazing ruins, picturesque peaks, and culinary delights. I love it, and Zennie and I are lucky we can spend serious time here, rolling slowly around the country and exploring many of its cool places. Yay! 😎 Mexico - Map of our travels so far, through 26 states in Mexico Some ...

Germany today is an advanced and prosperous place. There are still reminders of its wartime past, but the country has been transformed ...