diff --git a/tools/travis/docker_run.sh b/tools/travis/docker_run.sh
index 7a0f4a301..6044ea2c5 100755
--- a/tools/travis/docker_run.sh
+++ b/tools/travis/docker_run.sh
@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ eval "$(pyenv init -)"
 pyenv global ${PYVER}
 pyenv local ${PYVER}
 
+PYMAJ=$(python -c "import sys; print(sys.version_info[0])")
+PYMIN=$(python -c "import sys; print(sys.version_info[1])")
+
 if (( PYMAJ == 3 )) && (( PYMIN == 7 )); then
   echo "Skipping installing only needed for doctest which are not run on Python 3.7 (see bellow)"
 else
diff --git a/tools/travis/osx_install.sh b/tools/travis/osx_install.sh
index ab5224093..a439aec5c 100755
--- a/tools/travis/osx_install.sh
+++ b/tools/travis/osx_install.sh
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ else
   brew install geos
 fi
 # needed for basemap see https://github.com/matplotlib/basemap/issues/414#issuecomment-436792915
-python -m pip install https://github.com/jswhit/pyproj/archive/v1.9.5.1rel.zip
-python -m pip install https://github.com/matplotlib/basemap/archive/v1.1.0.tar.gz
+# python -m pip install https://github.com/jswhit/pyproj/archive/v1.9.5.1rel.zip
+python -m pip install https://github.com/matplotlib/basemap/archive/v1.2.0rel.tar.gz
 pyenv rehash
 
diff --git a/tools/travis/osx_run.sh b/tools/travis/osx_run.sh
index 8c8a06f8a..de2d3f3a1 100755
--- a/tools/travis/osx_run.sh
+++ b/tools/travis/osx_run.sh
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 
 set -e -x
 
+CWD="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" && pwd )"
+cd $CWD/../..
+ROOT=$PWD
+cd $CWD
 shell_session_update() { :; }
 
 eval "$(pyenv init -)"
@@ -25,9 +29,10 @@ set -e
 python setup.py build_ext --inplace cpptest pytest
 
 export PYTHONPATH=${PYTHONPATH}:`pwd`
-for f in $(find examples -maxdepth 1 -type f -name "*.py"); do
+cd $ROOT/examples
+for f in $(find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -name "*.py"); do
   FILE=$(basename $f)
   FILE="${FILE%.*}"    # skipping it takes too long
   [[ "plot_asynchronous_stochastic_solver" != "$FILE" ]] && \
-    DISPLAY="-1" python -c "import tick.base; import examples.$FILE"
+    DISPLAY="-1" python -c "import tick.base; import $FILE"
 done