We were up and moving by 9:30 a.m., enjoyed breakfast with tea and coffee, and then headed off to today’s adventure: hiking to Observation Point. While at Phil’s, we discovered a few other hikes that would get us to one of our favorite Zion spots. We drove around to the backside and followed a trail… Read More Day 4: Observation Point (part 1)
After sleeping in and having breakfast, we headed out of the park to visit family in Washington, Utah. Sharon and Phil were thrilled to have us for the night, and shortly after we arrived, we were off to explore their town. We stopped by a local Botanical Garden, hiked Snow Canyon, and checked out Tuacahn… Read More Day 2 & 3: Kolob Canyon
After eleven and a half hours of sleep, we are up and moving today. It cooled down overnight and was pretty windy, we both kept thinking we were going to lose the canopy, but we woke up to everything in place. Let’s do this! After breakfast, we headed out to ride to the end of… Read More Day 1: First full day
It was a long drive overnight, especially through Montana and back into Idaho, so Cas fuelled up with a Yeti full of coffee for the ride. As we were getting close to Utah border the road was blocked with down powerlines, but we only waited 15 minutes before the traffic was moving again. We stopped… Read More Camping at Zion National Park
We woke up at 7:30 am to get a ride with Augustine to the bus station in San Martin and got on the 8:35 bus to Mexico City. We had some traffic once we hit the city, but we allowed plenty of time just in case. Since we had a couple of hours to spare,… Read More Day 8: heading home
After breakfast, we wanted to go for a walk, so we headed to the park and walked like giants on the trails. We both noticed there were a few new features this time and ended up walking all the way to the end and found a museum that featured a marionette exhibit. It was small,… Read More Day 7: relaxing in Puebla
We woke up this morning at 5:30 am and took an Uber to the airport and by 7:00 we were all checked in and ready for our flight. We had talked about going to downtown Mexico City but thought with the luggage it would be too difficult and really draw attention to us. So we… Read More Day 6: back to Puebla
This morning we checked out of the Airbnb at 11:00 and headed for breakfast with a restaurant that had Pan, and it was delicious. We then walked around the area and explored. Our first stop was the Cathedral which was beautiful inside and out. Once outside we played tag with the kids, and even go… Read More Day 5: around Morelia
A block away from the AirBnB we found the main chapel and the town’s main square where we found lots of street performers while we had dinner on the main street. After dinner, we watched a fireworks show which used the Greatest Showman soundtrack for the music. It was so load but I understood every… Read More Day 4: off to Morelia
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