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Coffee Shop Talk: Batalla Cáfe
One of our first ideas when we envisioned Dashboard Drifters was traveling to different coffee shops and writing about the experience. Coffee Shop Talk is a series of blog posts that will be focused on the love of coffee and amazing coffee shops we find. We were told about Batalla while traveling in La Paz, Baja Mexico. Batalla is famous for having the best coffee. And we discovered, it’s true. I know that stating we found the best coffee in the world is dramatic. But, seriously, this coffee is amazing! They use a special roasting called honey processing. Coffee Processing Coffee has many layers: silver skin, parchment, pectin, pulp, and outer skin.…
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8 Tips for Driving in Mexico: Advice from Locals
We just spent ten days touring around Baja California, Mexico. The scenery is breathtaking, the food is delicious, and the people are friendly. Getting around though… well, driving in Mexico is another story. Here are 8 tips for driving in Mexico, with advice from locals, so you don’t break up with your partner or get too much grey hair. Check out our galley of photos from this trip! 1. Pre-Plan Your Route This may seem like an obvious tip, but it needs to be reiterated. Before we left for Mexico, we downloaded maps of the areas we were going to be in so we would have them offline. We opted not…
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Intentional Living
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. Annie Dillard According to U.S. News & World Report, 80% of resolutioners fail. With such an overwhelming failure rate, maybe we need a new tradition. Instead of creating an overwhelming list of new year’s resolutions, that let’s face it, probably won’t make it past the middle of January, we are following a new tradition. Enter choosing a powerful, meaningful word that sets the tone for how you treat yourself and act towards others. As we roll into a new year and a new decade, we have chosen a word to live this year by: Intentional. Intentional living…
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The 5 best things about RV life according to Instagram
December is flying by. I can’t believe it! With the end of 2019 drawing near, the countdown for our own send off into RV life is approaching. I think that the months leading up to June will go by even faster because we will have so much to do. Leading up to full time RV life we have to: downsize even further, sell our furniture, possibly move into a short term rental, get all our documentation in order, and so much more. We have been talking about what we are most looking forward to once we move into the trailer. We can speculate but we wanted to know what other…
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3 irrational fears about full-time RV life
We are T-minus 195 days until we move into our travel trailer and start our adventures as #FullTimeRVers. There is a ton to plan and do still and we are super, super excited. Underneath the excitement, there is a tiny amount of fear. These are the three semi-irrational things that I am scared of. 1. Laundry I have never been to a laundry mat. It kind of freaks me out to have all my laundry, towels, and bedding tumbling through a washing machine that other people have used. What if they have used bleach in another load and wreck my stuff? What if they are just gross? I know that…
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The excitement to downsize is real
One of the biggest things with moving into an RV is downsizing. There is virtually no way to comfortably fit all of your household possessions into a trailer (unless you are a hoarder). From what I have seen, there is a lot of anxiety associated with this process which is understandable. For me, I am really, really looking forward to it! Purging is one of my favorite activities. On a regular basis, I go through our condo and huck and chuck stuff. I love spending a weekend ripping apart closets and drawers and getting rid of all the things we no longer need or use. Mostly, these purges happen while…
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Weekend warriors in Canmore and practicing the blogging lifestyle
We spent the weekend in Canmore, Alberta with three objectives in mind: 1. Celebrate six months of marriage 2. Spend time together after Kendall had been gone for six weeks 3. Live like “bloggers” and how we plan to live come June 2020 The first two are easy to achieve. Really, we just wanted to hang out together in the same place we got married and enjoy each other’s company. The third was a more interesting task. We wanted to live in a similar way to what we are planning to do when we pick up and leave next year. Because we will still technically be working, whether remotely, on…
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What the heck is the plan?
Since announcing we were planning to move to Mexico, we have received several panicked phone calls. From the sounds of them, you would think we were leaving in the dead of night tomorrow. Word to the wise: tell your family before you annouce your plans to the internet. Apparently, we forgot that step. So what is the plan? Well friends, the good news (for you) is that we aren’t leaving until next year. In fact, we aren’t leaving for another seven months. That is one more Halloween, Christmas, New Year, Valentine’s Day, Easter, and Canada day. The bad news (for us), is that it is one more blustery winter in…
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Why we are leaving it all.
The decision to pick up and live a nomad or remote lifestyle is definitely shocking to some. For us, it is a means to the end where we live in freedom and can experience our best lives. For the last five or so years, we have been talking about living in Mexico or somewhere else warm. In 2014, we went to San Jose del Cabo for the first time. In 2016, we went again and stayed right in town at a new resort. Being in town allowed us to explore the town, travel to local beaches, shop in the stores, and experience a more authentic Mexican living experience. Obviously staying…
