![]() ![]() You can find Lisa Niver talking travel on broadcast television at KTLA TV Los Angeles, Satellite Media Tours, The Jet Set TV and Orbitz travel webisodes as well as her YouTube channel, where her WeSaidGoTravel videos have nearly 2 million views. Look for her memoir in Fall 2023 from Post Hill Press/Simon and Schuster. Niver is represented by Chip MacGregor of MacGregor Literary, Inc. Her podcast, “Make Your Own Map,” has been watched in more than 11 countries on 4 continents. Niver is a speaker at the Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and Dallas Travel and Adventure Shows for 2023. She is the founder of the website WeSaidGoTravel which is read in 235 countries and was named #3 on Rise Global’s top 1,000 Travel Blogs. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, she worked on cruise ships for seven years and backpacked for three years in Asia. Lisa Ellen Niver is an award-winning travel expert who has explored 102 countries and six continents. Was this town all we had hoped for? Find out in next week’s article!Īrticle first published as Bahia de Kino: Part I, The Foundation on Technorati. You will have to wait until next time to discover what else goes on in Kino. Our first morning there we awoke to view a dramatic setting with the calm sea, islands with thousands of diving pelicans, and an expansive desert landscape dotted with Saguaro cacti and volcanic mountains. I then booked four nights at La Casa Tortuga, with its 180 degree ocean views directly from the patio, bedroom and sliding glass door of the well-decorated studio apartment. We knew that this was our window of opportunity and we quickly purchased two round trip tickets. And so we put off the trip to the small fishing village named after Padre Eusebio Kino, a Jesuit missionary who traveled to the region in 1685 and met the indigenous Seri people, who still inhabit the region.įinally our patience was rewarded and this past Thanksgiving we found a reasonable flight direct from Los Angeles to Hermosillo. However, not only did the tickets from Los Angeles to Hermosillo prove to be expensive, but the connections and/or long delays between flights were notoriously long. Located in the State of Sonora on the Sea of Cortez, about 115 kilometers west of Hermosillo, it is close enough to the States that I expected to find cheap airfares. Visions of the beach at the end of the great movie, Y Tu Mama Tambien swirled through my thoughts.Īfter that brief encounter, we never saw Maury again but Lisa and I continually discussed that we should visit Bahia de Kino. ![]() He explained that it is a fishing village with a small expat community and now I was hooked. Once he informed me of the town’s name, I became curious. But his eventual destination, Bahia de Kino, surprised me since I had been pretty much all over Mexico and I had not even heard of the place. I have a house in Bolivia that I’m gonna sell and I’m moving to Mexico.” I figured that he was headed to one of the mainstays there for expatriates, either San Miguel de Allende or Lake Chapala near Guadalajara. The Mongolians leave you alone but the Bolivians can be treacherous.” I believe I responded, “Jesus Christ!” or “Holy Sh–!” I was robbed, shot at, and even animals attacked me. No one shoots at you, no one tries to rob you, and no animals try to eat you.” I looked at him in disbelief and said, “Did you live in a country where these three things were normal?” “There are three good things about Mongolia. “How long have you been in Ulaanbaaatar ?” I said. When I asked what he was doing in the store he said, “My Mongolian girlfriend plays this Playstation 2 all day while I am at work and it’s broken so I’m getting it repaired. He wore a cap and sported a goatee, along with a quasi modern-day mullet. While roaming the streets of the capitol one afternoon, we ran into a Canadian miner at a video game store. Three years ago while my wife and I traveled around the world for a year, we spent some time in the Mongolian capitol of Ulaanbaaatar before heading into the emptiness of the Gobi Desert.
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