WIFI and Cobblestones: Spanish school in San Pedro de Laguna, Guatemala.

Off our amazing 3 days in Guatemala City to start our budget travel trek, we then made our way to Lake Atitlan to a town named San Pedro.  One of our goals on this six month budget travel trek is to improve our Spanish language skills.  We decided to do a 2 week Spanish home [...]

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Photo Essay: Guate Rooftop BBQ

There are two things that we love: rooftops and BBQ. Put those together and you’ll find us there happy as clams.  We were ecstatic when we found out on Day 2 of our lil journey that our hostel in Guate would host an awesome rooftop BBQ.  Rooftops+bbq+good folks=good times Here’s a little photo essay of [...]

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Escape to Guatemala City

After years in the making, we were finally here on our dream trip. Those 16hour days and working weekends, with the 2nd jobs seemed so distant. We are here!! Woohoo!!  One way ticket to Guatemala with no return ticket in sight for six months.  This is our time and we were going to make the [...]

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Our Super 7 Shots

@HostelBookers started a great game to let us travel shutterbuggs showcase our photography.  They started the showcase with five travel bloggers. To continue the momentum of great photography, those five travel bloggers had to nominate five travel bloggers each and so on. Our fellow travel bloggers Matt and Caro at www.passportandatoothbrush.com (check them out!!) nominated us [...]

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TO LIVE AND DIE IN LA

  To Live and Die in LA, it’s the place to be You’ve got to be there to know it Where everybody wanna see   -Tupac   ‘Pac said it best. haha. Mr. and Mrs. TravelBudgetCouple are actually both from the San Fernando Valley     ( a massive grid like suburb of Los Angeles). [...]

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PFS: PACKING FATIGUE SYNDROME

Packing for a six month trip and packing your home at the same time is a daunting task.  We found this out quickly after 3 days of packing.  With that much packing, you start getting symptoms of a common travel disease:  Packing Fatigue Syndrome aka PFS.   Some symptoms of PFS include:   1. Delusions [...]

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No Job, No Car, No Home, Will Travel . . .

NO JOB Carlo’s going away party with his favorite MD’s and RN’s from Marin General Hospital.   Geneva’s last day at East Palo Alto Phoenix Academy  Charter School as an Instructional Coach.   NO CAR *Sigh* We sold our 2009 Midnight Black Mini Cooper S Convertible .   NO HOME We rented out our precious [...]

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COMING SOONER RATHER THAN LATER!

WE’RE TAKING OUR SWEET LIL’ TIME IN GETTING THIS BLOG UP AND RUNNING.

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