We arrived in London a few days before our scheduled Gate 1 Travel tour was set to begin, nearly four to be exact. This blog will cover a few travel tips and the places we visited on our free days. Why Arrive So Early? We never travel anywhere, arriving on the day of the…
The beautiful Park Plaza London Riverbank Hotel was our home away from home for the London portion of our trip. But we’re going to back things up a little bit. Flying To London Living in Merida, Yucatan, we’ve found that flying to Mexico City and then internationally from there often works best. Merida to…
After our Costa Rica trip, we took a little break from travel so Mark could renew his passport. This was the first time we had had to renew a passport since living in Mexico. Surprisingly, he received it back in less than two months. So, we are off again on a new adventure: England and…
As our previous blog posts mentioned, we struggled with our Costa Rica trip. Please don’t get us wrong; Costa Rica was beautiful, and the people are incredibly warm. What we found was that it was very similar to many places we explore regularly, living here in the Yucatan. That said, we blogged about our time…
During our 14-day Kaleidoscope of Costa Rica trip with Gate 1 Travel, we stayed in six hotels. Starting Out However, as previously mentioned, we stayed at the Park Inn by Radisson San Jose three times during the trip: once when we first arrived, again after two days exploring Tortuguero, and again to wrap up…
Yes, we’re still here. Retirement is keeping us surprisingly busy. Another trip, a couple of hurricanes (no damage, thankfully), and a family visit have kept us really busy. For some reason, blogging about Costa Rica has been a bit challenging. Don’t get us wrong; Costa Rica is beautiful and has spectacular wildlife, so much so…
San Jose, Costa Rica’s capital, has a population of about 1.5 million and is spread out along a fertile valley. This was the beginning, middle, and end of our Gate 1 Travel, 14-day Kaleidoscope of Costa Rica tour. We flew in and started our tour there, traveling to Tortuguero and then back to San Jose….
Most people know from our blogs that we’re not ones to sit still for too long. So, once again, we were off on a new adventure. This time, our travels brought us to the beautiful country of Costa Rica. A Little Bit of Costa Rican Geography and History Costa Rica is a country in…
Well, we are finally wrapping up our blog series for our Gate 1 Travel 10-Day Classic Peru trip. It’s taken us a while, but we’ve had several other trips, and life as expats in Mexico always keeps us busy. We decided to close out this trip with a good, bad, and ugly blog post. It…
After visiting the Gate 1 Foundation–sponsored school, we continued through the Andean Highlands to Raqchi on our way to Puno and the Uros Islands on Lake Titicaca, South America’s largest freshwater lake. Raqchi Raqchi is home to Wiracocha, a 15th-century temple known for its stonework. It is the largest Inca temple ever discovered….