We Built a Casa in Mexico!

We Built a Casa in Mexico!

The last few years have been full of adventures, changes, successes, failures, and – probably more than anything else – challenges. If you've been following along, you know we took a yearlong sabbatical to travel the world, and then decided to make it a...

How To Spend A Week in Oaxaca, Mexico

How To Spend A Week in Oaxaca, Mexico

Photos by Josh Meister Photo. We've now been living in Mexico for about eight months and had yet to travel very far – a big change from how we were living before we moved here! Oaxaca city had been at the top of my list for a while now, so we decided to spend a week...

Best Day Trips Out of Oaxaca City

Best Day Trips Out of Oaxaca City

Photos by Josh Meister Photo. Oaxaca is an amazing and colorful city. We spent just over a week there, eating, shopping, and exploring. Check it out here. We also took a couple of day trips outside the city. There's a lot of options for places to go and ways to get...

Eating All the Things in Puerto Vallarta

Eating All the Things in Puerto Vallarta

Photos by Josh Meister Photo. We've only had a couple of opportunities to explore Puerto Vallarta since we moved to San Pancho, so when we were thinking of some good activities to do with visiting parents, a food tour I've been wanting to do jumped to the top of the...

9 Tips for Long Term Travel

9 Tips for Long Term Travel

Photos by Josh Meister Photo. After living a life of travel for practically a year straight, making more mistakes than we would have liked, and befriending loads of other perma-travelers along the way, we came to terms with some realities about long term travel and...

Crossing the Border into Mexico

Crossing the Border into Mexico

Moving to another country is a bit of an overwhelming endeavor. Since Mexico and the US are land-connected, we decided that instead of selling everything, hopping on a plane, and starting over fresh when we got there or shipping our belongings at a cost of somewhere...

Our Best Travel Items

Our Best Travel Items

Photo by Josh Meister Photo. CHECK OUT SHARI'S UPDATED PACKING LIST FOR LONGTERM TRAVEL HERE     When you pack for a year on the road, you're going to have some hits and some misses. Some of the items we thought would be great crapped out on us almost...

The Imperfect Packing List for Longterm Travel for Women

The Imperfect Packing List for Longterm Travel for Women

There's certainly no magic perfect longterm travel or round-the-world trip packing list because every trip is different, and everyone's style and comfort level is unique. But there are some good general rules of thumb to follow: take less than you think you need (near...

Why We’re Moving to Mexico

Why We’re Moving to Mexico

Photo by Josh Meister Photo.   The most common question we get asked these days is why are we moving to Mexico? And the answer is simple – tacos. Just kidding. But only sorta. Our intention in spending a year traveling the world was not to find a new place to...