https://calderescapes.com The Calder's Global Travels Mon, 13 Mar 2023 15:37:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://calderescapes.com/wpcms/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/cropped-ce-site-icon-32x32.png https://calderescapes.com 32 32 https://calderescapes.com/posts/were-done-with-mexico/ Sat, 04 Feb 2023 16:47:42 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=55717 This will be a short post to catch you all up on the end of our Mexican misadventure.   February 4th, 2023 We have to say as much as we’ve been waiting for all this whole Baja car accident fiasco to be done, we don’t feel as excited as we feel we should be; it’s almost […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/getting-in-a-pickle-in-baja-mx/ Mon, 09 Jan 2023 16:29:05 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=55517 January 9th, 2023 Currency: MX Peso – $.053 USD – $.071 CDN Gas Price:  around 21 MX peso per litre – about $4.60 Beer:  Corona, Pacifio, Modelo, Tecate – take your pick!  You all know our fave 😉 Straight off, we want to apologize for the length of this post – a lot happened and […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/quick-trip-to-mx-to-get-sht-done/ Sat, 26 Sep 2020 02:36:25 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=35811   View of Tijuana above September 25thth, 2020 Back in one of our favourite countries: Mexico!  These days the USD is worth about 20 MX pesos and the price of gas is 17.90 a litre which equates to over $3.50 a gallon.  Here the people seem to be complying with COVID recommendations for the most part […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/tabasco-chiapas-mx/ Fri, 29 Apr 2016 21:30:48 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=19115   April 29th After crossing the border, we found a bank machine on the fourth try in the city of Tenosique, Tabasco that would give us a reasonable amount of pesos – some machines have low limits. We paid the truck owner for Fran’s vehicle mishap at the border and then we went shopping at a large […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/riviera-maya-qr/ Sun, 20 Mar 2016 20:18:04 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=18546   Sunday, the 20th of March, we tried to skype with Josh (it’s his 29th birthday) but our connection wasn’t strong enough through the cellular data so we resorted to a phone call which the grandkids found confusing cause they couldn’t see us, only hear us. We can’t believe he’ll be thirty next year! We […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/isla-holbox-valladolid/ Fri, 18 Mar 2016 20:01:15 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=18477   On our way to Cancun, we missed a few things we wanted to see in the north Quintana Roo (as we had a deadline to get to Cancun) and a few on the eastern side of the state of Yucatan so this is where we set for course for upon leaving our friends in […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/cancun-qr/ Mon, 29 Feb 2016 05:46:55 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=18366   They say there are two Cancun’s: the city of Cancun and the “Hotel Zone”. The latter is the long 30km spit of land that most tourists stay on in the resorts and white sandy beaches are found. We did not go that far today but rather went into the former, where we stocked up on […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/yucatan-state/ Tue, 23 Feb 2016 22:20:59 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=18231   We are now in the Yucatan State; until we started this journey through Mexico, I always mistakenly thought that the Yucatan included Cancun; the peninsula does but the state does not.  The peninsula has three states in it:  Campeche on the west (which we’d just explored), Yucatan on the northern part of the peninsula […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/campeche/ Mon, 22 Feb 2016 19:56:36 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=18162   Monday morning we headed off early out of our campsite at Palenque to the propane place to see if the mechanic could diagnose our leak issue. He was actually there and although he checked the lines and the regulator, he could not find a leak. We had him fill the tank to be sure […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/chiapas-2/ Mon, 15 Feb 2016 09:13:54 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=18033   Chiapas is a state of many landscapes from beach to arid lands to mountains. There are groups of indigenous peoples live here and many live in poverty. We did notice a larger police/military presence here. We know that there was been some local tribal unrest in the northern part of the state but no […]]]>