Julie and I are old school when it came to plotting our course across five continents during our Follow the Sun journey. We used a combination of fold-out maps, map books, guide books and the occasional reference from Mr. Google to plan each of our 755 days on the road. To supplement all that at a micro level, we often used our GPS – which we named Karen – to … Continue reading →
When we welcomed in the new year of 2018 from our secluded beach-side camp in Baja Mexico we never could have imagined what a spectacular year was ahead of us. We had a rough plan, more or less, of what we wanted to achieve during the year but turning that plan into a reality was one of the greatest experiences of our lives.
Continue reading →If you haven’t figured it out yet, I love spreadsheets. Spreadsheets hold all sorts of fascinating information, data, statistics, trends, averages, records, really cool stuff. I keep a very detailed spreadsheet on our travels, recording our movements in long columns and rows which add to our photos, blogs and memories that we’ve collected along the way. Here’s a snapshot of some of the data from the second leg of our … Continue reading →
Julie and I just finished 65 days, more than nine weeks, travelling around Mexico and Central America. We went into this leg of our Follow the Sun journey with a little apprehension – after all, Mexico is said to be a dangerous place to visit and some of those small Central American countries have a very sordid past. Dirty toilets, undrinkable water, corrupt policemen, con artists everywhere, who needs it? … Continue reading →
