Border Crossings

We’re in the home stretch of a journey where we’ve swung for the fences…and I simply don’t want to stop riding with Holly. We’ve settled into such an easy routine these past five weeks: up relatively early, find breakfast, pack the bike,...

Crossed the Costa Rican Border!

Hey guys! I know that you have all suffered gravely at the lack of my blogs (sorry 😉 ) but again, I have been so busy with everything that’s been happening. For example, a few days ago at the border of Honduras and Nicaragua an elderly man with one leg came up...
Dear Alyssa…

Dear Alyssa…

December 6, 1998…fifteen years ago. Feels like a lifetime in some ways, like yesterday in others. You came to us, chose us, to be your parents and we were honoured by your gift of brief life. Everyone who met you, whose finger you squeezed tightly in your tiny...
Rainy Day Magic

Rainy Day Magic

I’m staring at a wall of photos. Staring at a life, at many lives. It’s mesmerizing. Days of youth, a wedding day, travels, the babies growing older, stronger. It occurs to me that most houses in most towns on the planet have similar walls. People who have...
Day 23: Up to Tulum, México

Day 23: Up to Tulum, México

Hi everyone! Today I got to sleep in a bit while Dad did some work on his iPad. He came back into our hotel after about half an hour and told me that my teacher, Mme. Miller, was on Skype! I got dressed and came out to the main room, sat in the hammock and talked to...
Reality Check

Reality Check

Wind. Again the wind. I’d like to say the sound of it awoke me just now in this tiny hostel in Laguna Bacalar, México but in reality, nothing that simple or soothing pulls you from slumber here. It always seems to be the roosters first, then the insulted dogs,...
Day 22: Palenque Ruins

Day 22: Palenque Ruins

Hi guys! Yesterday was absolutely amazing. We left the hotel and rode in the rain with Jesús around 9:15 so we could meet Moe (my Japanese friend) at the restaurant at 9:30. When we arrived we had breakfast (I had fruit, yogurt and granola), met Moe and her mother...