You gotta love waking up and hitting the beach in your pajamas. Long sleeves, though. We’re definitely getting north now.
Only kids can get so much enjoyment and take such pride in cleaning up a filthy beach. For us adults, one look at all that garbage, and we can easily lose our faith in humanity. This was a weird beach—walk one way from the campground and it was pretty nice. Walk the other way towards the houses, and it was this. Our kids have gotten a lot of hands on experience seeing how much damage we can do to our oceans.
San Carlos. I’ve never cared for this place, but it’s on the way here and there, so here we are. Thing I don’t like about it is that there is no town. It’s just this massive eight lane road (the government must have thought this was the next Cancun) running along the beach with a few businesses scattered along it. If a normal town in Mexico is a 3×3 square, San Carlos is a 9×1 line. It’s uninteresting and scattered. But it’s only a short drive from the border, so this is where we saw more big RVs than we’ve seen total in the last year.
We met some Bum friends with kids here, which was a pleasant surprise. Nice family. The 13-year-old boy even sat down with Ouest and taught her how to make all manner of rubber band bracelets. She’s now an expert in the fine art. Ali and I had been staring at Youtube videos completely flummoxed, so we were very grateful for the lessons.
An intense game of “roll the rock into the chalk circle.”
Moving on from there it was a quick one-nighter sixty miles from the border. Tomorrow, Estados Unidos.
23 Comments on “Mexico Norte”
If you stop in Yuma, give me a shout!
Thanks! We will.
Rolling rocks..buy your kids some marbles and teach them the fine art of shooting the little suckers..if you pass through Phoenix..give me a shout out.. I check your blog most days..lunch, beers, a place to work on the bus???:)!!
Yes they have marbles but this was a quick game at a neighbors camp. Thanks for the Phoenix offer!
Welcome “home”.
Thanks! We had quite the welcome. Will post soon.
Sounds like a few of us followers hope for a stop in Arizona!
Arizona is beautiful (after that cold front that is). Heading to Tombstone today. We’ve never been!
Tell the kids thanks for doing a little clean-up on the beach!! Safe travels across the border 🙂
I’ve been reading your blog for quite some time, but I don’t recall ever seeing anything regarding how you manage the education for your children. I assume you home school, but am curious how that works as you move around.
They won’t answer this question. Sorry
We are not homeschooling the kids (right now), we are unschooling them. We don’t talk much about it as we don’t feel we need praise or condemnation. It is how we have chose to raise our children (right now). They are ages 6 and 4 – kindergarten and preschool ages. This website is great if you would like to learn more – we don’t agree with everything she says (like unlimited screen time) but good information here. http://education.penelopetrunk.com/2014/09/15/my-definition-of-unschooling-teaching-kids-to-intentionally-find-a-passion/
Thanks for the information. I’ve seen a few other articles on that approach.
“They won’t answer this question.”?
In case you missed it here: https://www.bumfuzzle.com/2014/12/31/ferry-to-mazatlan/
and here: https://www.bumfuzzle.com/2013/08/20/first-day-of-school/
I don’t understand why it’s so hard for people to understand why unschooling is preferable to standardized testing, biased textbooks, and school shootings.
Research and recognize that unschooling is very prevalent and successful. The Bums kids in particular have an ideal environment to thrive growing up this way.
Maritza, you completely missed the point! But that is ok, we are very forgiving. You are forgiven and still welcome in my homes.
I guess I don’t understand the question. How we manage their education? Ouest would be in kindergarten this year and Lowe would not be in school. We read to them, we teach them new languages, we play with them all day, we swim, we make art, we discuss the environment, we visit museums, we visit archaeological sites, they play with children of other cultures and other languages, we count money. I could go on all day with all the education they receive daily. If the question is what workbooks we follow, and who we report to, the answer is none, and nobody.
For what its worth I think you are going to have some awesome young adults and your definitely doing them a huge favor by traveling and exposing them to real world issues.
Keep up the awesome adventures! They will thank you later and you will be better off as well.
Thanks. I was only referring to “formal” education and probably should have worded my question better. I also needed to be reminded how young your kids are! No matter what you do in the future, they will have a great foundation to build on. I’ve seen many articles recently about the trend to “outdoor education” where kids learn more than just facts and figures – such as how to grow their own food, etc. I love the idea of learning life skills, along with formal education – whether at school or at home.
I am curious as to what you have to go through when you are crossing the border between US and Mexico. Do you have your vehicle searched, or are you well known enough to not have to go through that much anymore? ??
It changes every time. Sometimes they give us the full search, sometimes they just grill us with questions for half an hour, and sometimes they just peek in our fridge, take our apples, and wave us along.
I love your posts, they brighten my day!! Your kids seem wonderful and well adjusted this world needs more parents like you!!
Crossing the US/MX border in both directions 25-35 years ago in our old Winnebago, it took about the same amount of time each in each direction: The same professionally polite inspectors and questions, & seldom more than ten minutes. This was in the Rio Grande valley. My wife is bilingual & I at least trato de hablar espanol. We had our young daughters with us; never had a bad experience.
Good on the kids for the beach clean-up!