Archive for the ‘The 2003 RV Trip’ Category

What size RV to take?
This is a personal matter. If you handle your large rig like you were born to it, if narrow curvy roads without shoulders don’t faze you, if you [...]

Traveling in Mexico by RV led us to wonderful experiences we could only have had that way. Camping by a remote ferry landing on the Gulf of Mexico, deepening our immersion in the [...]

The first six ways are here.
7. Travel with children – or dogs
Especially in Mexico, where people love children so much, yours will draw a lot of positive attention. I haven’t traveled with kids myself [...]

Guidebooks don’t discuss the single biggest thing that will make your trip a memorable success… meeting people!
The joy of connecting, even when it is brief, can make all the difference in how you [...]

We spent our first night in the United States with friends who live right near the border. Our far-ranging conversations included a hefty dose of politics. This made me appreciate what a relief [...]

We continued onward, ever onward. Our attempts to bypass the city of Torreon did not work – in fact, we had to retrace our route twice in one area before the city let [...]

We passed a hot, noisy night in a city called Matehuala, but the next day we had a more interesting goal in mind. We would go through Saltillo, bypassing nearby Monterrey, Mexico’s third-largest [...]

A roadside pottery store,
on the Dolores Hidalgo road from San Miguel
We hated to look at the calendar, but there was no avoiding it: we had to be home in ten days. It was time to get some kilometers behind [...]

One very interesting feature of San Miguel de Allende, for both Kelly and me, is just barely getting started. Andy Watson, British, and Dorothy Gerhart, American, have lived and traveled extensively outside the [...]

They say that you either love or hate San Miguel.
Right away, I did both.
San Miguel de Allende is a very livable small city, cradled in rolling hills, with much of the city built in traditional architecture. Like [...]