We leave the salty sea for the inland jungle on the second leg of our trip to Mexico. Like the first part of our trip, we will continue to see Mayan ruins, but we will also see the cities of…
Surprisingly good camping and hiking weekend – very close to DC
Last week I was looking for (car) camping and a medium-hard hike close to our home in Takoma Park, Maryland outside Washington, D.C. I found nothing in the Maryland and Virginia State Park online database. There wasn’t much help when…
Review of Kings Dominion – no more kiddie rides for us.
Trish and I are big fans of theme parks, and consider ourselves experts. But honestly, early childhood for our girls was so dominated by Disney (Paris, Anaheim and Orlando) that our recent experience with ‘normal’ parks is lacking. We are…
Camping and thrill rides next weekend
One of our post-Middle-East-trip pledges is to do more local travel. Cheaply, if we can. The Billygoat trail hike in August was awesome and it reminded us how much we like camping. We have a shed of hiking and car…
Sahara Desert and M’hamid, Morocco: Day 25
We don’t have to drive far today to our next spot, only about 25 miles. It affords us some time to sleep in (til 8 a.m., ha!) and eat a slow breakfast of fresh bread, both baked and a fried…