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A Land in the Clouds: San Cristobal de las Casas On our road trip back from Portland, Oregon, USA to Merida, Yucatan, Mexico this past August, we decided to stop through San Cristobal de las Casas, one of our favorite places on earth. Driving up in elevation...
Day of the Dead | Hanal Pixán: A Maya Pib Ceremony to Honor Past Loved Ones
Exactly one year ago yesterday, our friend Maurcio Santíllan, the owner of TAGS ALPARGATAS shoe store here in Merida (Mexico) invited us to the Palomar family house in Hunucma, Yucatan for a traditional Maya pib ceremony to celebrate Hanal Pixán, more widely known as...
Local Culture: What the World Would Be Like If Local Cultures Didn’t Exist
As world travelers, and especially since half of our team is Navajo Native American, immersing ourselves in local and indigenous culture is important for us while we travel. To keep local, cultural traditions alive and thriving as travelers and tourists we need to...
Travel Destinations: Travel to Places Outside the Box
Shhhhhhhh is the term you hear when you talk about secret locations around the world. Most of the time, the reason is that these destinations are special to that person and they fear once the secret is out that it will be ruined by masses of tourists that will bring...
2018 In Review: We’ve Come A Long Way!
Let’s start by asking, where were we exactly one year ago? Well, we had just joined Location Indie, the online community of like-minded travelers journeying through the world and creating location independent businesses. A community helping each other to succeed...
Why Volunteer? A Journey About Giving Back While We Travel
“You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give.” So why volunteer? When things are good they are great, but when things go wrong they can take the wind right out of your sails. So why do we dust ourselves off and continue offering ourselves to...
Hanal Pixán | Maya Day of the Dead in the Yucatan
We’ve been reading a lot of books and asking a lot of people about the Maya since we first got here. And we’ve been learning a lot about Mayan religion, ceremonies, and rites that are still in practice today. Their culture, beliefs, and folklore is what makes Mayan...
What Happened to the Maya?
The Maya of the Yucatan When you first hear the word Maya what do you think of? Probably giant pyramids, hieroglyphic script, human sacrifice, strange rituals and advanced knowledge of the stars. Or perhaps you think of the Maya calendar and the prediction of the end...
11 Things to Double Check Before You Volunteer Abroad
11 Things to Double Check Before You Volunteer Abroad As digital nomads, volunteers, and citizens of the world, we want to do good for the world. In the modern age of environmental and humanitarian crises, especially in places we love to travel, it's apparant there is...