My 20 Best Adventures in 20 Years of Solo World Travels One of the most common questions people ask me when they find out I’ve been traveling the world for several years is – What was your best / most interesting / craziest experience? I always have a very hard time trying to answer that …
All About El Fuerte – Mexico
All About El Fuerte – Mexico El Fuerte is a small colonial Spanish-built town in northern Sinaloa state, which is situated in Mexico’s far northwest. El Fuerte is just south of the border with Sonora state and about 1-1 ½ hours northeast of the Pacific Coast at Los Mochis city. As its name implies, El …
Missing Bali – Island of Gods
Missing Bali – Island of Gods It was April, 2015 that I left my beloved SE Asia ‘for good’ in order to explore the rest of the world. Up until then I’d been looping around SE Asia almost exclusively since May, 1998. That means the region occupied a whopping 18 years of my life. Well, …
Budget Travel in Sonora – Mexico
Budget Travel in Sonora – Mexico When I planned my travels through Mexico’s far northwestern states of Sonora, Sinaloa and Chihuahua (then into central Mexico) I assumed that travel there would be the same as in the rest of Mexico in terms of plenty of hostels & other inexpensive accommodation options, inexpensive buses and easy, …
Gorgeous Colonial Alamos – Sonora
Gorgeous Colonial Alamos – Sonora Alamos is a small well-preserved Spanish colonial town in southern Sonora state. It’s one of Mexico’s 111 ‘pueblos magicos’ aka ‘magic villages’. Along with even smaller Magdalena del Kino further north (also a pueblo magico), Alamos is the only other colonial town in Sonora. The two towns are considerably different, …
Bahia de Kino – Sonora – Mexico
Bahia de Kino – Sonora – Mexico Bahia de Kino (Kino Bay) is a broad, shallow bay on the Mexican mainland side of the long, narrow Sea of Cortez, and situated in the dry, hot state of Sonora. On the other side of the Sea of Cortez is famous Baja Peninsula. Sonora state lines the …
Magdalena de Kino – Sonora – Mexico
Magdalena de Kino – Sonora – Mexico Magdalena de Kino is a small historic town located about 1 ½ hours south of the US/Mexican border of Nogales and situated in the far northwestern state of Sonora. Magdalena is one of Mexico’s 111 ‘Pueblos Magicos’ aka ‘magic villages’. It’s also one of only two Pueblos Magicos …
The Fabulous Bocas del Toro Islands – Panama
The Fabulous Bocas del Toro Islands – Panama Bocas del Toro is an archipelago of a dozen or so fairly undeveloped ‘au naturale’ densely-forested, tropical islands situated just off the Caribbean coast of far northwestern Panama, close to the border of Costa Rica. They are inhabited by indigenous islanders who live in small isolated villages, …
News – I’m Returning to Mexico!
News – I’m Returning to Mexico! Those who have been following my travels in recent years will know that I’ve spent more than 1 ½ years exploring the vast country of Mexico and have visited about 2/3 of its diverse destinations. I’ve already written 45 articles & photo galleries about my explorations in Mexico, all …
25 Highlights of Travels in Central America
25 Highlights of Travels in Central America I just completed my extensive, 15-month explorations of Central America! Yes, in mid July, 2018, I flew out of Costa Rica to Phoenix, Arizona for a big family gathering, thus ending the final leg of my long, long jaunt through the 7-country isthmus that connects the North and …