https://calderescapes.com The Calder's Global Travels Fri, 17 Feb 2023 16:38:00 +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/heading-for-a-warmer-winter-az/ Fri, 11 Dec 2020 16:50:03 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=36119   December 11th, 2020 So after attaching our new South Dakota license plates, we began our drive south towards the state line.  First stop was a weigh station as we wanted to know how much the trailer weighs loaded and if we had enough weight on the hitch. The weigh station was just outside Boulder […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/deciding-to-wait-to-sell-next-year-vegas-part-3/ Sat, 14 Nov 2020 04:54:05 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=36040     November 13th, 2020 Doug arrived back at our condo in the mid afternoon and we settled in.  We had been craving burgers the past few days so we googled ‘best burger in Vegas’ and found a place off strip about 3 km / 2 mi away.  We called first to confirm they were […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/vegas-time-part-2-some-new-beginnings/ Fri, 23 Oct 2020 16:47:11 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=35950   October 23rd, 2020 We were up early on Friday morning and hit the road before 5 am to begin the drive to Oklahoma City in the rental car. Driving through northwest Texas we saw fields and fields of: We ended up driving 1617  km / 1004 mi ito the Elk City, east of Amarillo, […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/back-into-the-usa-to-sell-vegas/ Mon, 05 Oct 2020 00:13:47 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=35806   We know it’s been a while since our last post; it’s been busy and not too exciting travel wise.   October 4th, 2020 About 50 km / 30 miles after we crossed north heading towards San Diego’s outskirts, we began getting a flashing engine light.  What now?  Our OBD reader said cylinder 7 was misfiring.  […]]]> 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/returning-to-the-states-to-get-to-mexico/ Thu, 17 Sep 2020 04:46:05 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=35813   September 16th, 2020 We left Mary & Gavin’s early this Wednesday morning, found a sani dump and caught the ferry from Nanaimo to Horseshoe Bay near West Vancouver.  First stop:  our friends, Therese & Pat in North Vancouver.  We had brought them the cod fish that Bill gave us and we had a great […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/exploring-the-north-half-of-vancouver-island-bc/ Fri, 04 Sep 2020 21:42:24 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=35753 September 4th, 2020 So on Thursday morning we left Parksville for the second time and made our way up to Comox where we went to the Costco to fill up (cheapest gas on the entire island: 116.9 CAD per litre which converts to 88.68 USD which means 3.35 USD per gallon)  and then do some […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/exploring-southern-vancouver-island-bc/ Fri, 14 Aug 2020 00:48:37 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=35565   August 13th, 2020 We are free! We left D’Arcy’s around 9 am ran a couple of errands and then went to North Saanich (north of the Victoria airport) to have a visit with our Kiwi friends, Marg & Claude.  They used to live across the street from us in Burnaby, back in the 90’s […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/hardcore-quarantine-bc/ Thu, 30 Jul 2020 17:33:26 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=35495   July 30th, 2020 So we are back in our “homeland” and the sun is shining.  We made our way to the ferry only to be told at the ticket booth we were only allowed one jerry can (we have three).  No offers of assistance were forthcoming except to say “you can go back down […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/and-weve-come-full-circle/ Sat, 18 Jul 2020 23:55:24 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=35415   Racing across the USA July 18th, 2020 Saturday morning, the day after we picked up Tigger from the port in Houston, we spent some time getting a few more things ready and we were on the road by 9:30.  The plan was to make it about 500 km / 300mi to a state park […]]]>