I really can’t believe we are more than two thirds of the way through ‘the long way up..’ it seems a world away since we were camped in Ushuaia looking at the ridiculous journey ahead of us. Believe it or not before going into Colombia we considered selling the van! After so many problems and with it money dwindling, moral was low.. there were times where the small budget we live on was completely consumed by paying mechanic fee’s but we couldn’t do it. We had to finish what we started..

Central America we flew through.. with Honduras, El Salvador and Guatamala being the most dangerous countries in the trip we weren’t too keen exploring the wondrous countryside and we were pushed for time to reach Mexico to meet up with Carlo’s friend Pietro. So we crossed three countries in as many days, no serious problems, other than a corrupt cop who wanted to lock Carlo in his makeshift jail/shed at one point but I did get to sleep in my first motel!! It was late one night after we entered El Salvador, without anything to eat all day and completely exhausted, we couldn’t be bothered to find a parking spot so, driving through Santa Rosa de Lima, we were talked into staying the night in a bright ‘lime’ green motel by its owner.. it was lovely and clean, it had air con, a hot shower.. lime green walls (inside too?!), matching bed covers and in the headboard was a love heart mirror and little love heart headrests.. Yes it was that kind of motel but i slept soundly ;)


The motel dreams are made from...


We stuck to the west coast and entered Mexico on July 28th. Slept on yet another cliff edge this time in a huge thunder storm and spent 3days on the beach of Saladita, a recommended place by a fellow traveler, thanks Anna. We had a campsite to our selves as this place was deserted, which we liked as we generally don’t like people..

I did make the leap, skip, jump to Cancun to meet up with some friends for a few days and had a wonderful time playing with sea turtles and swimming in the Caribbean ocean… We even went to some Mayan ruins and a Cenote cave where you swim in a fresh water pool deep at the bottom of the cave. Other than this little getaway from my ‘spouse’, I must say we’ve had a lazy time in Morelia with Pietro, it’s been pretty much a month here now, really getting into all the homely comforts, the sofa, a ‘real’ kitchen, hot showers! all these little things I took for granted before… but having internet is a complete life killer as we’ve both been sucked in on catching up with the world, it killed our enthusiasm to go out and shoot.. So, I made myself get out the other day and capture some of Morelia’s qualities as it is a beautifully cultured city and Carlo even got off his big fat a** and did a shoot with Pietro which was pretty cool.

I call it “Pietro the couch jumping Super Genius!!” – he studies quantum physics, i think he can read minds… (some people think that’s what it actually means he can do..)

It hasn’t been a complete dos this past month, our Canadian visa’s have been granted, which means our final destination in Vancouver will be our home!

Stay tuned for the US post!! Cali here we come…..



Drift Wood beach

like i said, deserted..

View from our campsite

Working hard, doing his thang..

Drift wood beach

LiGHT in THE SaND

same same

our long way up favourite star

Morelia Life - Real Mexico

Morelia Life

Morelia musicans


BEHIND THE SCENES: “Pietro the couch jumping Super Genius!!”


BHTS "Pietro the couch jumping super genius!"

Princes of Italy

The final result

The adventurous life of a physicist.