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Over the valleys and through the cacti to our Airbnb we go.... From Phoenix to Visalia we had a long day's drive, but sights like this kept us awake on the nine hour stretch. Have you ever watched Bull Durham? It's one of my all time favorite movies. Remember at the end when Kevin Costner playing Crash, told Susan Sarandon playing Annie Savoy, that he's thinking about becoming a manager for a minor-league team in Visalia? That's the only time I had ever heard of the Californi

"They" say, "Home is where the heart is." Our philosophy has always been more along the lines of "Home is where you hang your hat (or pickleball cap)". For 15 years, we hung our caps in Phoenix, AZ the majority of the time. If we're forced to call just one place home (governments are so narrow minded), we say Phoenix. We arrived in 2002 in August, and let's just say we must be hardy or crazy (or a bit of both), because we stayed even after one of the kids left a Crayon in the

Our young adult kids live in Tucson, so we visit often to get all the hugs we can. As a result, Tucson has become one of our "pickleball homes". As nomads, we are fortunate to meet all kinds of wonderful people, which we love doing. There is something special though about the people you get to play with on a regular basis. If you are a member of a league, or if you have a great group of friends that you get together with often, you get to know everyone, and fess up... you hav

Have you ever been pickled? As in 11-0? Can that also be considered a skunk? We got skunked in a different way In Mazatlán. If you’ve been following along with our blog, you already know that there was a fair contingent of players in San Miguel de Allende, there were less players in Chapala, but great competitors, and there was only one player in Rincon de Guayabitos, but he was a good, fun player. We arrived in Mazatlan, a bustling town with a population of almost 700,000 pe

Rincon de Guayabitos is quite likely not a place that has been on your radar, unless perhaps you are from Mexico. You have likely heard of it's neighbor, Puerto Vallarta which is just about an hour south. Rincon de Guayabitos is a beautiful partially protected harbor with many hotels that line the beaches abutting the very warm waters of the Pacific. We drove the 200 miles due west from Chapala in about four hours. Portions of the well maintained Highway 15 and 15D are toll

Thinking about visiting Mexico to play pickleball? Chapala would be a great place to try, even, or especially if, you don't speak Spanish. It is located on the north shore of Mexico's largest freshwater lake. There are just over 50,000 inhabitants in the area which includes about 10,000 in the neighboring town of Ajijic (Ah-hee'-hick"). Many American and Canadian ex-pats, and there are lots, live in the smaller village of Ajijic, especially in the peak season from November to

San Miguel de Allende, Mexico is the beginning point of our epic Pickleball Road Trip North through North America.

Our pickleball journey first began in 1991, but didn't really take off until a trip to San Miguel de Allende. See where it takes us.

This evening's weather does not look like this: I took these drone shots a couple of mornings ago when it was a clear still morning, and I am happy to be able to enjoy them now while it is rainy and windy outside. On another note, there is no place to play pickleball around these parts. At least not yet! We stopped in to the Macroom Community Leisure Center just the next town over from ours. The guys working there are eager to learn, and we have set up a time to go back and s