No entiendo. Why do we suck at cooking beans? I thought we had our recipe all figured out. Then we cooked them this morning and, while edible, they’re not all that good. I even took pictures of all the steps, which I’m not going to include because that implies you should follow our steps. Here’s what we did after polling a few people in restaurants,...
I finished my photo editing class on Skillshare. It’s a good way to spend time while traveling abroad full time. I decided to edit a photo of Gaby and Holly. Check out the before and after! Note that these photos were all taken with my iPhone. There are a few places where I could have done a better job softening lines, but overall I’m pretty...
You may be wondering just what we’re doing with our time while we’re traveling full time. So here is a peek behind the curtain. / GENERAL LIFE STUFF / Some things don’t change. We do our laundry once a week, walk the dog three times a day, do the dishes, make our bed. Our rent includes cleaning service once a week, so that’s nice....
This is our new favorite place. It’s called La Miserable, and it’s on Belizaro Dominguez across from The Bagel Shop. They serve mezcal, with salty orange slices. The owner told us a lot about mezcal and the atmosphere was the perfect blend of trendy and relaxing. We also planned our English lesson for tomorrow morning....
Took a trip to Todos Santos today to see some art. It’s located right on the Tropic of Cancer. We’ve been there a couple times before, but never just to see the galleries. The “Got Baja?” map of Todos Santos has an art gallery walk — just download the map and follow the purple line. Even though it was overcast today, it was really, really...
Florentino took good care of Chris. He’s right next door to our favorite pork taco stand. Getting a haircut in a foreign country is a fun, cheap way to experience another culture. Chris’s haircut was only 50 pesos, or around $4. There are barber shops and estéticas (beauty shops) everywhere that take walk-ins. Have been doing research on different neighborhoods (colonias) in Mexico City. I...
One month into our leap year, we have some reflections on full-time travel. In no particular order: We don’t miss our stuff at all. In fact, there are a few things we’d take off our packing list. Other people are more hard core than us, like this family of three driving across Central and South America and camping in their VW van. It’s hard to find...
Today we decided that we’re going to extend our stay in Mexico and spend December in Mexico City. We were originally going to fly to Quito, Ecuador next, but decided we wanted a) to be in a big city again and b) are just now getting the hang of living in Mexico. Meanwhile, Holly just stood in a corner and chewed her bone, like dogs...
Back in action! After a week of rest for me and Chris more than fulfilling his part of “in sickness and in health,” we had a fun day. We volunteered with the students this morning at the library and talked to them about what life in San Francisco is like, then did some skits to practice English. Was a lot of fun, followed by...
Sorry for the silence. Have been sick the past few days. The one good thing about this was seeing how great Mexican health care is. Chris has been so great taking care of me. (You’re the best, Chris.) I’ve pretty much been sleeping constantly since the 24th. I had a 103 degree fever, but no other symptoms. My dad took me to the hospital and...
Today is one of those days. For some reason, there are mosquitoes EVERYWHERE. But what matters is that we will win. We will win. #manversuswild UPDATE – Didn’t try the coil because the plug-ins worked great. The UltraThon lotion is very effective, but not appropriate for minor indoor use. The OFF! spray worked OK, but I ended up with skin irritation from reapplying too...
We’ve been in La Paz for just over two weeks, although it feels like longer. And it’s definitely enough time for us to stumble on our first insight of our leap year: We’ve been paying WAY too much for dog grooming. No, that’s not actually it. But Holly did get a good grooming today that only cost 200 pesos, which is about $15-16 USD...