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January 29, 2017 – Puerto Angel, Zipolite, and Mazunte. It’s been a while since our last post.  We’ve gotten more involved in the social scene here, which means volleyball three times a week, Deb’s yoga sessions and Spanish classes, our bird-watching (birds are social), and a few other things.  Or maybe we’ve just been procrastinating! […]

January 15, 2017 – Playa Tangolunda Playa Tangolunda is located five kilometers east of Santa Cruz and is home to the largest concentration of all-inclusive resorts in the area.  We’ve heard that it has a pretty good beach, but the hotels make access to it really difficult, as you can’t just walk through their properties.  Fortunately,

January 10, 2017 – Puerto Escondido. So here it is, January 5, almost our one-month anniversary in Huatulco, and we haven’t had an adventure for like two weeks.  So we’re off to Puerto Escondido, which is another beach town about 2 hours west of us by bus.  We have a hotel for 2 nights, so we

January 2, 2017 – Christmas and New Year. Well, things got pretty busy around here with ‘National tourists’ until just before Christmas, then everything quieted down.  Christmas Day was very quiet.  Great, we thought; the ‘Nationals’ have gone home, and now we have the place to ourselves again.  When we got up on the 26th,

December 20, 2016 – A Little of This and That Here are two birds that grace us with their presence daily. The black one is a Grackle and the other is a White Throated Magpie Jay. I don’t know what its called, but sure does sing purdy! All fluffed up & no place to go.

December 18, 2016 – Hanging Out Around Town Not too much to report, the past week has been spent settling in, checking out some of the local eateries, and walking about to get the lay of the land. The local bus has a main end-of-route stop about a block from our door, so we use

December 10, 2016 – Not Dead Yet. Well, here we are in Huatulco! The weather was forecast to turn crappy in Calgary, so we went one flight early to make sure we didn’t miss our connecting flight.  Sadly, that meant we had to fly out at 06:25, which meant we had to be there at

Say, Debbi. Do those look Like Cows To You? Wood Buffalo National Park is THE largest national park in Canada. You can do every outdoor sport known to man here. And guess what, it has the largest herd of bison in the world. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The park is huge ..

july 26 – Fort Smith Hay River to Fort Smith to Fort Fritzgerald & back to Hay River This trip took us several days. There are NO services from Hay River to either of these communities, so make sure you gas up. If you are pulled over, everyone stops to see if you are ok.

July 19 – fort resolution Fort Resolution is a Metis community on the south end of Great Slave Lake. It is on Highway 6 and is 150 kilometers from Hay River. First located at the mouth of the Slave River, Fort Resolution (population 499), is the oldest continuously occupied modern settlement in the NWT. It