Travel Journals – How and Why to Write One

Travel Journals – How and Why to Write One

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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 ...