The countries I have traveled to outside of the United States are Thailand, Costa Rica, Mexico and Canada. I have also been to Hawaii several times. Here are all my photos and the details from the travels since 2003:
To celebrate my 50th birthday and to DJ at a friends full moon party I went to Thailand in April 2003. I flew into Bangkok spent the night and then flew to Koh Samui and took at boat to Koh Phangan where they have the famous full moon parties. I ran into Laurie a friend from San Francisco on the beach and we rented a little beach house together. Laurie and I made friends with 10 people from San Francisco that were staying at the same resort.
I went to “The Sanctuary” resort and did a 4 day fast, colon cleansing, got a Swedish and Thai massages, and did yoga every day outside in the jungle.
I went back to Bankok and took a tour of the Grand Palace, the floating market, and the Chatuchak weekend market.
Here are my photos:
https://marcysantana.com/thailand-my-50th-birthday/index.htm
In January 2004, I went to Sayulita Mexico for the first time to see Primo. I meet Primo in August 2003 at the Reggae on the River Festival. We fell in love and spent the weekend together. He was staying with a friend in the mountains near Garberville. He was painting his friends houses. When he finished the job he came to Mill Valley and stayed with me for a couple weeks. Then he went back to Mexico. He stayed in Mexico for six months and then came to live with me in Kensington.
Here are my photos:
https://marcysantana.com/Sayulita-Mexico-2004/index.htm
In May 2004, I went to Costa Rica. I flew into San Jose spent the night then I drove to Playa Grande stayed there for a few days. A friends showed me around Rincón de la Vieja Volcano National Park. We hiked to a beautiful waterfall. I drove to Arenal Volcano National Park and also went to Manuel Antonio National Park. I loved seeing all the monkeys in the trees and the beautiful beaches and jungles.
Here are my photos:
https://marcysantana.com/Costa%20Rica%20May%202004/index.html
In May 2005, I went to Mexico again with Primo for our honeymoon. We went to these towns: Sayulita, Puerto Vallerta, Guadalajara, Guanajunato, San Miguel de Allende, Lake Chapala, Yelapa
Here are my photos:
https://marcysantana.com/honeymoon-mexico2005/index.htm
In March 2006, I went to the Big Island of Hawaii for a Burning Man regional burn called Rebirth and to visit Primo’s nephew and his wife. I stayed at Kalani resort and got to dance at several outdoor parties. I drove around the island in a jeep with the top down. I meet a lot of people from San Francisco there and hung out with friends I already knew from Burning Man Festival.
Here are my photos:
https://marcysantana.com/Big-Island-Hawaii-3-06/index.htm
In July 2006, Primo and I went to Canada for two weeks. We drove up the coast and went to Olympia National Park and camped along the way and relaxed at Sol Duck hot springs. From there we took a ferry to Victoria. When we go to Canada they took all of our things out of our car and searched every inch. We had to put it all back by ourselves. We went to a music festival in Victoria and spent a couple days exploring the town. We drove to Whistler Blackcomb ski resort. We drove to the end of Vancouver Island and took a ferry to Vancouver and camped at another hot springs where there was a sand castle contest.
Here are my photos:
https://marcysantana.com/Canada-July-2006/index.htm
I went to Mexico in December 15, 2007 until January 6, 2008 to spend Christmas, New Years and our wedding anniversary with Primo. We stayed in Sayulita, Tepic, San Blas and Puerto Vallerta. We had a lot of fun on this trip. Primo introduced me to many of his friends that live in Tepic and own several vegetarian restaurants. We ate at all of them.
Here are my photos from Sayulita, Mexico:
https://marcysantana.com/Sayulita-12-2007/index.htm
Here are my photos from Tepic and San Blas, Mexico:
https://marcysantana.com/Tepic-12-2007/index.htm
Here are my photos from Puerto Vallerta:
https://marcysantana.com/Puerto-Vallerta-01-2008/index.htm
In February 2007, I took my family (Brian, Jen, Mark and Gloria) to the Big Island of Hawaii to celebrate my mom’s 80th birthday. We rented a condo in Kona and spent a week exploring the island. Jen and Mark got engaged while we were there.
Here are my photos:
https://marcysantana.com/BigIslandHawaii-0207/index.htm
I went to Costa Rica with my son Brian on October 10 – 20, 2008 to celebrate his birthday. We flew into San Jose and rented a Toyota Rav 4 wheel drive. We stayed at the Country Inns & Suites. Then we drove to Puerto Limon and stayed at Hotel Playa Westfalia. We went to this sloth sanctuary. We took a boat to Tortuguero National Park we stayed at Tortuga Lodge & Gardens resort and had the resort to ourselves. The lodge gave us a guide and he gave us a private tour of the national park. At night during a full moon we saw sea turtles laying eggs in their nests in the sand and we saw baby sea turtles running to the sea. We went Arenal Volcano and stayed in the Arenal Observation Lodge and went in Tabacon hot springs and Bali hot springs. We hiked around Monteverde Cloud Forest and stayed at Monteverde Lodge.
Here are my photos:
https://marcysantana.com/Costa-Rica-October-2008/index.htm
In February 2011, I meet up with Primo in Sayulita, Mexico. Our friend has a beautiful house up on a steep hill a couple blocks from the beach. He lets us stay there when ever we are in town. We had the whole house to ourselves. Primo knows a lot of people that live in Sayulita. He has been going there in the winter for over 40 years. Everywhere we go people stop to talk. It is warm and sunny everyday in the winter. We have friends from Canada that own a bar so we spend time with them at night.
Here are my photos:
https://marcysantana.com/Mexico-Vacation-February-2011/index.htm
On November 2 -9, 2013, Primo and I went to Sayulita Mexico and stayed at our friends beach house. Primo’s nephew and his girlfriend joined us the first weekend. Other friends from Jococtepec joined us the second weekend. We got to see hundreds of baby sea turtles hatch and run to the sea.
Here are my photos:
https://marcysantana.com/Sayulita-2013/index.htm
Baby Sea turtles hatching.
Hanging out with friends at the beach.