Mexico Roadtrip
OK, for those of you who asked for a blog - here we go!
Not sure how this is going to go as neither of us have had to write anything since we were in secondary school English back in the mists of time, well 1987 at least. And yes kids, that’s when we had to write using an actual pen on paper with joined-up hand writing and everything. No laptop, no spellcheck and certainly no ChatGPT to help. We can still remember the agony of having to come up with a minimum of 500 words on subjects such as - “What I did in my summer holidays” and “Shakespeare links the human and the fairy worlds in A Midsummer Night’s Dream - Discuss.” Just typing those has made us come out in a cold sweat. Why we have agreed to voluntarily subject ourselves to writing what is effect a short essay everyday (wow, that’s optimistic) we’re not sure.
So - New blog post number 1 may be the first and the last!
Maybe.
Perhaps.
Watch this space.
Anyway, we should start.
Maybe the header “Mexico Roadtrip” has gotten you interested but first we should probably give you a little background on who we are and the trip itself. Yes Debbie / Jaime, we know you already know this but we are hoping if we are suffering the pain of writing this blog that some other people may actually read it too! We are Simon and Emma and we are both originally from Wales in the UK (Rugby, Tom Jones, Gavin & Stacey, big fuck off dragon on our flag, etc) and we moved to Canada with our two kids almost 20 year’s ago. We settled in Maple Ridge just outside Vancouver in British Columbia. Years passed by, life went on, the kids grew up and bam, Covid hits. That period of lockdown got us thinking about a lot of things including our future retirement plans and well, one thing led to another and we ended up buying property in Bucerias, Mexico. Since then we have flown back and forth between Canada and Mexico a whole bunch of times and have enjoyed our time in both locations. We should say that we both work online so anywhere with a laptop and internet access works for us - not sure we are digital nomads exactly but you get the idea. Over the last few years we have also converted a Sprinter van into a camper and have been using it to explore around BC a little. So throw Maple Ridge, Camper van and Bucerias into the crazy idea shaker and we get to “Mexico Roadtrip”.
Still here? Anyone………? Great. So:
Our plan is to drive with our two dogs, Freya and Otis from Maple Ridge, BC, Canada to Bucerias, Nayarit, Mexico via Baja California and Baha California Sur. Once we get to La Paz, we will take the ferry to Mazatlan on the Mexican mainland and then drive down to Bucerias.
Total distance as per Google Maps is 4,177 KM (or 2,595 miles) excluding the ferry crossing. Although the actual distance travelled will be more and we will be recording the trip using the Gaia GPS app.
Wish us luck!
