Andalucian Road Trip: Day 5 – Ruins and Rivers

The night before we were told that our next hotel would not open until 6:30 pm, and we were only two hours away. So we resolved ourselves to kill some time. Our first stop was the Torre del Vinagre (the Tower of Vinegar). We never did learn why it has a funny name. What it […]

Andalucian Road Trip: Day 4 – 18 Miles and 18 Waterfalls

The only thing we really wanted to do in Cazorla National Park was hike a very famous trail “Rio Borosa.” Everyone’s pictures look like this: Beautiful, clear water with a winding old wooden path alongside of it. It’s not a very long path and most people just use it for the swimming holes. No matter […]

Andalucian Road Trip: Day 3 – Baños and Battlefields

Castillo de Baños de la Encina We had to drive on the freeway to get from outside of Cordoba to the Baños de la Encina. I took as many pictures as I could of the street signs – with the 120 km/h signs, weird merging signs and off ramp warnings. Some things are universal – […]

Andalucian Road Trip: Day 2 – Archaeology and Almodovar

Medina Azahara We drove 1 hour to the Medina Azahara – an archaeology ruin of a palace said to have been bigger and more beautiful than the Alhambra. The Azahara is just outside of Cordoba. There used to be huge emirates (kingdoms) within Spain’s Moorish territory- the Emirate of Granada and the Emirate of Cordoba. Granada’s […]

Andalucian Road Trip: Day 1 – Cheese and Castles

Quesos Sierra Sur We only had to drive about 57 minutes from Jaen to get to our first stop – a cheese factory. We had to make a choice between a bodega, a Roman cistern or a cheese factory. With siesta we could only choose one and we chose the cheese place because we have […]

April Road Trip: New Mexico NPS

Our last installment of our road trip brought us through Texas and to New Mexico. As our neighbor state you would think we would’ve seen more of it – but we had never gone to some of the big sights – Carlsbad, Roswell, and Chaco Canyon. We had a ton of fun going to all […]

April Road Trip: Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi

This will make four posts in four days, we usually aren’t this active, but we have a lot that we have been working on, and it’s all kind of come together just now. We didn’t know where we were headed but landed in St. Augustine after choosing it out of our NPS passport book. All […]

April Road Trip: Florida Keys

What is a key? “Key” is the bastardization of “cayo”, the Spanish word for a small island. From the entrance to the Keys to Key West it’s about 106 miles, and the speed limit is 45-55 mph. Driving to Key West, you don’t really notice the low speed limit because you’re too busy looking at […]

April Road Trip: Florida

Long Drive The next day, we got to use the Dumb Sun Pass for the first time. That was exciting after all the suffering we endured to activate it. We decided we should drive more this since there was nothing in the area we wanted to do. There was a big cat rescue nearby but […]

April Road Trip: Louisiana and Florida

Avery Island Our next stop was the Tabasco Factory. Our GPS took us the strangest way- up, over, around and back down with LA-89 and US-90 W. It ended up being through neighborhoods and farms. There was almost no one on the road and half of it was shady with huge oaks covered in Spanish moss. We […]