Category: Travel
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Mexican Wedding? Maya’s Well Explore the Yucatan – Izamal, Chichen Itza, and Playa del Carmen

A dear friend of mine invited Maggie and me to his wedding, which would be held in Playa del Carmen, Mexico. The destination wedding was a bit of a surprise, but we were excited to finally visit “old” Mexico and check out some Mayan sites across the Yucatan. After some research and putting together a…
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Semana de España Part 3: Málaga, Atequera, & Nerja

2 March 2025 The whole reason Maggie and I made the trip to Spain was to visit her relatives, Kristen, Jake and their three kids, living in Malaga. They had a beach side apartment with an extra room. We found our way there after a short train ride from El Chorro and long walk through…
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Semana de España Part 2: Climbing in El Chorro

I got the bug. Not an ailment, but an obsession with rock climbing. When Maggie and I first started looking at this trip to Spain, we were trying to decide what to do. Suddenly I remembered that Spain is a world renowned destination for rock climbing. A quick internet search yielded a solid climbing area…
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Semana de España – A Week in Spain Part 1: Madrid

Maggie and I spent Christmas ’24 in Connecticut with her family. Over dinner, her cousin, Kristen, and husband, Jake, shared with us they would be moving to Malaga, Spain for 6 months. They would be renting an ocean side apartment which had an extra room. They extended an invite for us to come visit! After…
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Una Boda en Colombia – Cali

15-20 June 2023 No, not that Cali. My cousin invited Maggie and me to his wedding in Cali, Colombia. This wasn’t necessarily intended to be a destination wedding. Rather, his fiancé (now wife) is from Cali and it made the most sense for the American invitees to make the trip instead of the reverse. Maggie…
