https://calderescapes.com The Calder's Global Travels Sat, 18 Feb 2023 00:10:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://calderescapes.com/wpcms/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/cropped-ce-site-icon-32x32.png https://calderescapes.com 32 32 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 […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/puebla-oaxaca/ Sun, 07 Feb 2016 05:15:47 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=17885   We found the only RV Park in the Puebla city area which we were not impressed with but it was in an okay location. While Fran did some shopping, Doug worked a couple of hours and then we relaxed. Saturday morning, we took a “combi/collectivo” (local public transport van) to the El Centro part […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/state-fd-of-mexico/ Tue, 02 Feb 2016 04:56:54 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=17705   We drove through the state of Mexico to arrive at the Federal District of Mexico (not a state; more like Washington DC). The drive took us down from the altitudes of Michoacán some; we went from over 10,500 feet down to 7,000 when we arrived in Teotihuacan – a small town within the District […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/michoacan-guerrero/ Mon, 25 Jan 2016 05:59:13 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=17586   The coast of the state of Michoacán is quite spectacular with black sand, white sand, brown sand beaches, cliffs and a highway that snakes through a jungle like terrain. Sunday, we headed back to the coast from Colima and entered the state of Michoacán where we checked out a couple of possible beach camping […]]]>