http://blogs.bootsnall.com/TheBays Seattle to the Panama Canal in our 1982 Vanagon Camper. Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:37:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The first really amusing outing was our first dinner back in the USA.  Where else would we go than McDonalds?  It wasn’t that we had been missing it for the last 11 months – McDonalds are everywhere in the world.  We cruised the streets of San Bernardino looking for a ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/TheBays/impressions-of-the-usa.html The Most Expensive Happiest Place on Earth After 50 weeks and 21000 miles on the road we returned to the in-laws last Saturday July 21st at 5 minutes before midnight. 2 weeks sooner than expected.   First however I need to talk about the leading up to our return.  A couple of months ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/TheBays/disneyland.html It seems every time I am writing a blog I am whining about not wanting to drive more and not wanting to see many more things, because most likely we have seen it even better on our trip before. We visited over 100 places, had to pack in and out ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/TheBays/new-experience-117.html It was tough to leave Ajijic – we had a great apartment, kids in a good school, a lot of free time and met some nice people to hang out with.  But our next stop was the Baja peninsula and Matthias and I were both looking forward to it very ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/TheBays/up-the-baja.html Our faithful readers will have noticed that we haven’t been updating our blog very much lately.  We’ve been in Ajijic for nearly 6 weeks and have only posted a few blog entries.  The first week we were here we enrolled William and Julian in a pre-school here and we’ve had ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/TheBays/about-to-hit-the-road-again.html The morning we were supposed to go to Guanajuato Matthias was still just tired of traveling and he decided he didn’t want to go.  In the end we decided to split up, he took Julian and William and I were off to Guanajuato. Riding the bus is very exciting for a ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/TheBays/guanajuato.html When you drive into Ajijic there is a sign that says “Riviera Alta.”  You might think it means the OLD Riviera since aside from the dozen Mexicans that live in this town all you see here are ex-pat retirees from the US and Canada.  High-water socks, bad Hawaiian shirts draping ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/TheBays/the-old-riviera.html One of Matthias' hobbies is creating slide shows on the computer set to music.  He has 2 slideshows that he loaded onto You Tube.  One is of our trip to the San Blas islands in Panama, and the other is a slideshow of our entire trip so far.  You can ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/TheBays/more-pictures-and-slideshows.html As probably all of our readers already know this weekend the greatest soccer team of all time (VfB Stuttgart) won the German Bundesliga for the first time in 15 years. It was totally unexpected and therefore it is even sweeter now. During our travels this year Stuttgart was televised several ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/TheBays/champion-2007.html Allison’s mom, Oma Joyce, who has been the subject of several blog entries retired last week.  We would like to congratulate her and say thank you for all her help and support she has given us, even despite the fact that she isn’t the greatest supporter of out trip.  We ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/TheBays/congratulations-oma.html