Interested in following our travel routes or getting detailed information about the campsites we’ve visited? Since 2019, we’ve used interactive map apps to document our travels, including pictures and detailed location information for each campsite along our route. Check it out below!
2024 Adventure: Great West Coast Loop
Each year, our primary destination is usually our southernmost stop, but in 2024, we broke the mold. We briefly dipped down into northern Mexico before steering Sally west as far as we could go to the Pacific Coast Highway – one of the USA’s most epic road trips.
During our adventure, we visited 20 US states, 4 Mexican states, and 2 Canadian provinces. Slow Sally gave us a scare early on in the trip when her brakes let go in Texas. We were starting to doubt her reliability but she proved us wrong, performing like a champ for the rest of the trip. She safely circumnavigated the US, bringing us farther west than we’ve ever travelled before, bravely drove through the searing hot temperatures of the La Huasteca Potosina in Mexico, capably climbed the rugged hills of the Pacific Coast Highway, and protected us from unrelenting rain in the Pacific Northwest.
The adventures along our route were mind-blowing but after averaging a new campsite every second night for over four months, we arrived home road weary and ready for a well deserved break!
Click these links for our interactive map and blog series.
2023 Adventure: Canada to Central Mexico
Our 2023 Mission: The Patzcuaro Loop! Patzcuaro, a little town in Central Mexico, was our southernmost destination. As expected based on our intel, we loved it! It had all the things we seek out when we travel: colonial architecture, cute restaurants and cafes, hiking trails, cool high-elevation temperatures, a lake, and a great little campground. We also discovered and rediscovered some other epic destinations including:
- Louisiana (USA) for some gator hunting and Creole cuisine.
- El Potrero Chico (North East Mexico) to send some (easy 😉) routes in a world-class rock climbing destination.
- Copper Canyon (North West, Mexico)… well, a glimpse of it… that adventure went all wrong when Walter, our best furry friend, got really sick and we rushed him to the vet in El Paso, Texas.
- Utah (USA), for all things outdoors – especially the hiking, National Parks, and slot canyons.
- Badlands National Park (South Dakota, USA), to ogle some bison!
Click these links for our interactive map and blog series.
2022 Adventure: Canada to Mexico’s Baja California Sur
So many things went wrong on this adventure. Slow Sally (our van) had a catastrophic, trip-changing transmission failure in south Baja. We almost lost our SUP; we reclaimed it in an epic rescue mission but lost our solar shower in the process. We also both somehow managed to lose a pair of sunglasses. Despite all of the misadventures, we visited some beautiful, mind-blowing destinations and don’t regret a minute of it. Click these links for our interactive map and blog series.
2021 Adventure: Ottawa to Canada’s East Coast
A trip to the east coast of Canada was our first pandemic-era van adventure. We didn’t blog during this trip but we diligently documented our route from Ottawa, west to Owen Sound, Ontario, and east to the far reaches of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. This trip included some great backcountry campsites and A LOT of stops in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Click this link for our interactive map.
2020 Adventure: Canada to Guatemala via the US Southeast
We had originally planned to travel all the way to El Salvador or Nicaragua in 2020, but the COVID pandemic swept the world in March while we were still in Guatemala. With our travel insurance threatening to bail on us, we rushed back to Canada, resulting in a different travel route than we had planned. Click this link for our interactive map.
2019 Adventure: Canada to Guatemala via the US Southwest
On our return trip from Guatemala, we took the advice of fellow travellers and went WAY out of our way to visit New Mexico and Colorado. The detour was absolutely worth the extra miles and we would have stayed longer in these states had our schedules permitted. Click these links for our interactive map and blog series.
SLOW SALLY & CREW 