Colmar, France was listed on our river cruise as an optional tour. This small town in the Alsace region near Germany and Switzerland looked interesting, so we decided to stay a few days before our cruise started in nearby Basel. Our Airbnb loft apartment, according to Google, was a 20-minute walk from the train station, […]
The Nein Rhine River Cruise
Last October for our 25th wedding anniversary we took a river cruise on the Danube through Germany, Austria and Hungary. We really liked the experience and decided to do the Rhine this year. Unfortunately heat and drought depleted the river to record lows and turned the trip into a little bit of a bust with […]
Beaune, Burgundy, France
Beaune was kind of a last-minute addition to our Europe trip. Really glad we came to this medieval walled city and got to pedal out to the vineyards and villages. A circular walled city Beaune is one of the few towns in France that still has nearly its entire ring of medieval walls. The ramparts […]
Five days in Paris
“…wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.” — Ernest Hemingway We ended our Rhine river cruise in Amsterdam and took the high-speed Eurostar train to Paris. We opted for first class and got a pretty good dinner with a nice hazy IPA served […]
Four days in Wengen, Switzerland
If you’ve ever seen a postcard of the Swiss Alps, there’s a good chance it was taken somewhere near Wengen. This little car-free village sits on a shelf high above the Lauterbrunnen Valley, and the only way up is by cog railway. We spent four days there and I’m pretty sure I took a photo […]
Guanajuato
We escaped the summer heat and humidity of Baja with a quick hour-and-a-half direct flight from Cabo to Guanajuato in the central Mexico highlands. The city was as colorful and beautiful as described. Our Airbnb apartment was perched up in the hills at almost 7,000 ft (2,100 meters) above sea level, about a half-mile (800-meter) […]
Baja Mexico Tiny house/casita SOLD
$70,000 USD. 1 bed/1 bath casita with outdoor kitchen and large RV pad with full hookups including 50amp electrical. Located in the tranquil organic farming valley west of Mulege. About 2 miles from town. 896 m2 lot (about .22 acres) You own the land through transferable Fideicomiso bank trust. Comes turn key with indoor and […]
Traveling to Baja: RV Tips & Gear Checklist
We are back in Baja for our ninth season of RVing. I rarely blog anymore and away went the Winnebago as we now have a truck camper (our second). We get a lot of questions about coming down to Baja in a RV so I thought I would do a post on prepping for a […]
Top spots on the Oregon Coast
Growing up in Oregon, the coast was a favorite destination for our families. And now that we full-time in our RV, we have made it a point to get back there in the summer and early fall when the weather can be ideal. The Oregon Coast is 363 miles long and all of its beautiful […]
Touching Gray Whales
Seeing Gray Whales in Baja had been on our Baja bucket list but our timing never seemed to be right. This past February on our way back to Mulege we decided to stop at Puerto Adolfo Lopez Mateos and go on a tour. The road out from Ciudad Insurgentes had been recently repaved and was […]