M&R's Vacation Stories

Photo Album for the trip Visit my Society6 store The Whale's Mouth Last May when we were planning our Texas road trip initially we had thought we would add El Paso and Lower New Mexico to the trip.  But with the trip already at 2500 miles, adding New Mexico was just a bit toooo far to be reasonable on a trip that was already plenty long.  And thus this trip was born.  The plan was a quick flight to El Paso, hit up Carlsbad Cavern, Guadelupe Mountains National Park and one of the newer parks in the system White Sands National Park (though a long time National Monument). One day per park, probably not enough but let’s see how it goes.  But this time Rebe’s sister (Yeli) and aunt (Aimel) decided they would join us, we threw them invites just as a courtesy but didn’t really think they would join us for the random quick adventure but they immediately bought flights after we did and the rest is written below.  Most Americans know about border check points, the place ...

Link to Full Canadian Rockies Photo Album It’s been a while since I put together one of these posts, so I guess I should update you on what’s been happening in the last 10 months since the last installment from Big Bend.  Since we didn’t get to go scuba diving in Indonesia in March/April of 2020 we thought we would get some dives in Mexico, so in May we flew down to Cozumel and did a week long stay in the same place we went in 2019 and got in 20 or so dives.  Why didn’t I post a blog for that trip?  Well, dive trips tend to be a bit less interesting to write about, each day is a bit of the same… breakfast, dive, surface break for an hour, another dive, lunch, nap, sit in the shade on the beach, dinner in the room or in town, sleep, wake up and repeat.  We haven’t taken dive photos in a while but I actually took a few on this trip. In July, we made a trip over to Sarasota to visit with Rebecca’s family and this was more lounging on the beach. In August during peak hu...