I think a lot of our friends and family think we are “full-time tourists”.  And although we do get to see and experience a lot, most of our time is spent doing rather mundane ‘life’ things. This has been especially true here in Mérida. Thus, we were excited for the arrival of our beloved friends, Andrew and Michael- both to see them and to put our tourist hats back on and go exploring.  Having read extensively about Mayan culture and archeology, I was very excited to get to

In all honesty, we both love doing this blog. But neither of us want to bombard people with too many posts, and sometimes life happens so quickly that we feel like we could be posting every day… and that would be…. a lot. And then suddenly, cascading towards us like an out-of-control luggage cart, we have too much to talk about and really don’t know where to begin. So, you get an extra-long edition.   Mexico City was overwhelming. We’ve already done two posts about all the si

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It’s been almost two years (!) since we left our beloved Seattle community, and almost two months since we left our new friends in...

The umbrellas we bought did their magic and warded off rain for two whole days! But their spell broke on Friday, and we’ve been getting...

We're so grateful to have hosted our first visitors! Thank you, Andrew and Michael. :-) Did you know that Monticristi Ecuador is the home...