This week in The Pearl – January 16, 2025


We got back to The Pearl on Tuesday, but not before spending an interesting weekend. Last Friday we moved from our hotel in The Gallery district of San Jose del Cabo to the Zona Hotelera. We stayed at Krystal Grand Los Cabos, an all inclusive resort. This was our first experience with an all inclusive…

TheTravelsketcher’s Tuesday – sketching light and fast


Two of the challenges of travelsketching are packing light and traveling with others. Often I see folks show what they are packing for a vacation and it strikes me that they carry a lot more than I do. I don’t take much of anything that “I just might need.” Experience tells me that those things…

This week – not in The Pearl – January 8, 2025


Writing this from our deck in San José del Cabo, the quieter village 40 minutes east of the party city. Quiet is relative, but such is life, at least not much in the way of late night revelry here. The highlight of the weekend, before we left for Mexico, was Saturday when we met up…

TheTravelsketchers Tuesday – 4th week of Advent


The theme of the fourth week of Advent is love. Love is a funny thing – we love coffee, we love to travel, we love our cat… it is a word that we use for a lot of concepts. Love as taste, desire, or even lust. Love as affection or friendship. Much love is self…

TheTravelsketcher’s Tuesday


Thoughts for the season – Week two of Advent, seeking peace. “Peace on earth…” This was the angel’s message to the shepherds on the first Christmas Eve. It was the time of pax Romana, the 200 year period of relative peace thanks to the iron hand of Rome’s military. Yet there is much more to…