La Bufadora | Baja trip | Day 9

Initially, we were planning on camping for one more night. However, we were nearly home and in desperate need of decent shower and pizza, so this marks the end of our little Baja trip for now.

The road went by La Bufadora, a very famous spot where the oh-so-beautiful ocean meets the land in just the right way. It was worth seeing. So we did.

The perfect camping spot | Baja trip | Day 8

The first day of 2019 brought many great memories. Vacations were almost over, so we turned towards home. And managed to find an amazing camping spot that we will definitely revisit in the near future.

Guerrero Negro | Baja trip | Day 7

Continuing the rant about this restaurant. Don't hope that I'll ever shut up about it. That's not going to happen. I have fallen in love with the family that owns it and we'll be visiting them again this spring and any other time we happen to be in Guerrero Negro.
Ojo de Liebre can be found on iOverlander, Google Maps and Facebook. 😉

Bahía de Los Angeles - Guerrero Negro | Baja trip | Day 6

Guerrero Negro has always been on the list of places we must visit at some point. It offers a number of unique experiences, and I strongly recommend you to consider this place if you are going to Baja.

Bahía de Los Angeles #2 | Baja trip | Day 5

One of the most relaxing days on that trip. It involved the beach and nothing but the beach. If you want to convince yourself to go to Bahía de Los Angeles, keep reading.

Bahía de Los Angeles | Baja trip | Day 4

From stuck to Bahía de Los Angeles | Baja trip | Day 3

The previous day ended with no success at getting out of the sand. As you can imagine, our car didn't unstuck itself while we were sleeping, so we woke up to this:

Here is what happened after.

San Felipe - Bufeo (sort of) | Baja trip | Day 2

This is probably one of my favourite days from that trip. It's dynamic, ironic, beautiful and "dream-crushing" all at once. Like a beautiful sunrise with a sudden slap of reality. Everything that might or might not happen is entirely our fault, so let's approach it as a learning opportunity.
Here is the first picture of the day, let's make it a cover. A mixture of excitement and fuss. I'm sure any parent will relate.
Also, don't you just love how weird people's faces look upon waking up? Like you've been poorly impersonated by an alien.

Tijuana - San Felipe | Baja trip | Day 1

It's finally time to talk about our first serious camping vacation. I'm talking about a week (give or take) of camping. No visas, no schedule, no hurrying. Camping for the sake of camping, basically.

El Salto, Ensenada | First time in our SUV-Camper

Many of you might recall our adorable smurf car, that we owned for a good while and had some awesome camping adventures with.

It was really cute and very uncomfortable to sleep in, but we appreciated it. It has seen some places and it deserves to be remembered. However, children grow, dogs want to be included and there are only so many nights you can take in a tiny blue can before going mental. It was time for a change.

We've had this car for about 6 months now and it has already seen some epic adventures. This is a post about its first - El Salto near Ensenada, Mexico. Enjoy.

Suomenlinna the fortress island (crazy travelling edition)

Our last full day in Finland. We can't leave Helsinki, because next morning we have an early flight. At the same time, we owe it to ourselves to see as much as possible because God knows when we'll be back. Of course, possibilities are endless, and you will always find something that suits your taste.
Somewhere between breakfast and packing, I was scrolling through touristic destinations within the area and instantly fell in love with Suomenlinna.
First of all, islands. Second of all, fortress. Nature and great distances to walk, but also lots of bathrooms and occasional museums. And it involves a ferry boat, which is always a plus in my book.

Days in Finland (crazy traveling edition)

This is a story about one of the most beautiful places I've visited yet. It kicked off our 'tradition' of exploring Europe little by little every time we fly to see my family, stole our heart and left us speechless.
And did all of that in under 3 days.

Exploring a Russian village, trying to fetch water from wells and meeting Russian drunks.

The Zoological Museum or how I began to admire Peter the Great (crazy travelling edition)

St. Petersburg was our last stop before leaving Russia. 3 days for exploration and waaaay too many amazing places to see. The schedule was tough, but all the best things in life come with challenges!
Unfortunately, the little one started having a fever in the middle of day #1, so the rest of the time we spent at home, hoping that she gets better.

However, we did manage to check a few things off of our list before this happened, and this is the post about that.
St. Petersburg truly is the most beautiful and historical place in Russia. It is full of breathtaking architecture, palaces of nearly every King or Queen this country has ever seen, museums, art and inspiration. It has been the home of every other Russian writer and you can almost feel that history has happened there. I adore that place. And all my rant is not giving it justice.

Lazy lazy blogger

Are you familiar with the feeling of complete and utter laziness, when things pile up on you and none of them is particularly difficult, but you can't manage to get even one of them done? Welcome to my month!
So today I'm going to cheat just a bit and upload another tiny random vlog from Russia.
I promise the actual posts are going to show up here eventually, just not this week.

Fishing in a Russian river

Sorry, there was no upload on Thursday. To make up for it enjoy this vlog from Russia and I'll see you next Thursday with a fresh blog post.

If you thought taking one flight with a kid wasn't hard enough | LAX - Cherepovets (crazy traveling edition)

Slowly moving on with our diary-like adventurous posts and the subject for today is our long journey to Russia. This wasn't the longest time it took us to get from point A to point B, but the longest we've ever travelled with a child and somewhat the most stressful.
We started off with an amazing attitude. I was ready to see my family, Sofi was so excited, no amount of words could do it justice and my husband was eager to change the routine of our days. We had such high expectations, so the drive to LA wasn't bad at all.

However, as soon as we got to the airport things just started happening.

Mexico city adventure and finally getting Russian visas (crazy traveling edition)

This is a story about our second attempt at getting Russian visas and it involves zero camping so bear with me.

San Francisco adventure or how we majorly screwed up (crazy traveling edition)

Hello there. Personal kind of post coming up, so if this is not your type of thing and you have zero interest in the life of our family, then maybe checking out other content I have on my blog would be more interesting for you.