Florida to Nicaragua Road Trip #5: Ajijic to Coatzacoalcos, Mexico

Dear Reader, We bid our friends goodbye after quietly seeing the New Year in with them the night before and got back on the road. Our main focus is to get to San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua, as quickly and safely as possible, with our sea kayaks and gear intact. The guests currently staying in our home though are there until January 7th, so it doesn’t do us any good to arrive before then. But any time after that is fair game. What I have not yet mentioned here is that we not only are road tripping from Florida to …

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Florida to Nicaragua Road Trip #4: Visiting Friends in Ajijic, Mexico

Dear Reader, It turns out that some very dear friends of ours from Seattle are staying in Ajijic for a month or so. Glen, in fact, introduced John and I thirty five some years ago via a sea kayaking trip he’d put together for friends in Barkley Sound, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Although we live far apart, we’ve had a history over the past four years of being near enough to each other during travels to enable our get togethers: twice they visited us in Loreto, Baja California Sur, Mexico, where John and I were working and Glen and …

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