Travel Journals – How and Why to Write One

Travel Journals – How and Why to Write One

Filed Under: editorial, travel stuff

DAY 3 (Must be Friday) we got a late start, as more in our party started to adjust to Hawaii time. We headed west to Waimea Canyon. After driving to a few [...]

Mexico Trip Journal – Day 8 – Oaxaca

Mexico Trip Journal – Day 8 – Oaxaca

Filed Under: mexico travel

Filipe, the weaver I met yesterday, picked me up in his car at 10am outside of the hostel. We headed for some of the well known sites in the valley. The Big [...]

Mexico Trip Journal – Day 7 – Oaxaca

Mexico Trip Journal – Day 7 – Oaxaca

Filed Under: mexico travel

The strangest day about day 7 of the trip was that I was still in Oaxaca. My usual travel pace would have put me on the road again after two days in [...]

Mexico Trip Journal – Day 6 – Oaxaca

Mexico Trip Journal – Day 6 – Oaxaca

Filed Under: mexico travel

After breakfast and a (hot) shower I went over to the tour place and caught the shuttle to Monte Alban. In the van on the way over I struck up a conversation [...]

Mexico Trip Journal – Day 5 – Oaxaca

Mexico Trip Journal – Day 5 – Oaxaca

Filed Under: mexico travel

I am not sure if they have hot showers at this hostel (Hostel del Mercado) which is something I had read in reviews before coming. I certainly did not have one but [...]

Mexico Trip Journal – Day 4 – last day in Mexico City

Mexico Trip Journal – Day 4 – last day in Mexico City

Filed Under: mexico travel

I awoke with just two more things that I wanted to see in Mexico City before I headed to Oaxaca: the murals at the National Palace and the National History Museum in [...]

Mexico Trip Journal – Day 3 – Mexico City

Mexico Trip Journal – Day 3 – Mexico City

Filed Under: mexico travel

I ate breakfast again at the hostel and then caught the metro to the central bus station in the north of Mexico City to find a bus for Teotihuacan which is 30 [...]

Mexico Trip Journal – Day 2 – Mexico City

Mexico Trip Journal – Day 2 – Mexico City

Filed Under: mexico travel

A little mixup at the hostel. i think I may have claimed someone else’s bed, or at least someone else was in it when I went to bed. But my sheets, towel [...]

Mexico Trip Journal – Day 1 – to Mexico City

Mexico Trip Journal – Day 1 – to Mexico City

Filed Under: mexico travel

Packing for a trip is always a little stressful but it adds an extra level of stress when you go to get something from your garage and find that the garage door [...]

Trip Journal – England (London, Liverpool)

Filed Under: europe travel

England – to London – May 16 & 17 As were getting ready to head out the door for a two and a half week journey we got a call from my [...]