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Mechanical woes and the road to Oaxaca

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  • Mexico
  • North America
Mar 08 2016
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When your brakes fail, it might as well be on a winding mountain pass with sheer drop offs and hairpin bends. Even better if it is a pass that climbs from near to sea level up to almost 3000m, before dropping back down to below 1500m. (That’s pushing 10,000′ before returning to less than 5000′ for those of you who have not gleefully embraced the metric system.)

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The Copper Canyon with questionable maps. Part one.

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  • Mexico
  • North America
Apr 24 2015
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We left with a Map. Well, OK, that isn’t entirely true. We left with a scrap of paper with the names of a couple of towns we would need to drive through written on it.

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How we ended up not really giving the Pacific coast much of a chance

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  • Mexico
  • North America
Mar 14 2015
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We were starting to feel like we didn’t really like the Pacific Coast of Baja. I know that sounds a bit rough, I mean we live on the Pacific Coast of New Zealand, you think we’d have a soft spot for its sister coast in Mexico. Perhaps it wasn’t that we disliked the Pacific Coast, it was just that the peace and tranquility of the Sea of Cortez side of the Peninsula was too tempting to ignore.

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Utah. Possibly another planet. Part 1.

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  • North America
  • United States
Jan 13 2015
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After spending some time driving aimlessly around Utah, we reached the conclusion that it is quite possibly another planet.

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The truth is out there

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  • North America
  • United States
Jan 04 2015
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The truth is out there… although it isn’t as interesting as we’d hoped. After spending time at Burning Man and in Las Vegas we felt we had probably come as close as possible to encountering alien life forms. But that wasn’t going to stop us trying our luck on the Extraterrestrial Highway.

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Jasper and Banff

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  • Canada
  • North America
Dec 02 2014
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I suspect it is considered a crime to visit British Columbia or Alberta and not pay a visit to Jasper and Banff. Not wanting the Canadian Mounties to angrily chase us out of the country we made the detour to check out these two stunning but expensive highlights of Southwestern Canada.

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So are we in Alaska, or British Columbia?

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  • Canada
  • North America
  • United States
Oct 31 2014
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As we’ve mentioned, we quite enjoyed Alaska, we didn’t want to miss our last opportunity for a visit, so we made the detour to Stewart and Hyder.

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The classic Kiwi road trip

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  • New Zealand
  • Photo Friday
Dec 27 2013
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Photo Friday—The classic Kiwi road trip

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Snowy Sunday afternoon

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  • New Zealand
  • Photo Friday
Jun 28 2013
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Photo Friday—Snowy Sunday afternoon

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A short trip to the moon

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  • New Zealand
  • Photo Friday
May 31 2013
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Photo Friday—Horses

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