Our “relaxing” time back home was anything but. It was, maybe, the most stressful time we’d had all year. We had just under two weeks before leaving for Namibia, which we were looking forward to using to reload and recharge. But in the days leading up to leaving Mexico, our to-do list grew and grew. We had to buy new toiletries and supplies for Phase 2, and get my phone fixed, and fully catch up on laundry, and actually book…
Phase 1 of our grand adventure was, itself, an incredible adventure. If our entire trip were only what we just completed, then the trip would already be an incredible, life changing, worthwhile thing. The fact that it’s only a piece of it, and we have plenty more to go, leaves us feeling so fortunate and excited. By The Numbers We spent just a shade over 4 months on phase 1, leaving Raleigh, NC on January 15, 2018, and returning on…
Erika and I didn’t want to pass through Mexico City without actually seeing it. We also didn’t have a lot of time available in Mexico, though, and wanted to focus most of it in San Miguel de Allende. So, we planned for just one full day in Mexico’s capital at the end of the trip, where we’d do as much as we possibly could in that one day. We got into the bus station from San Miguel in late afternoon,…
