This Little turtle

This post will come with a bit of a disclaimer: I don’t normally intervene in wildlife-related situations that I come across unless I know there are professional people around that are trained in how to rescue/rehabilitate that particular type of animal. It is too easy to make mistakes, or have a negative effect, if we […]

A Day In The Life… In (and around) Ayampe!

We have been in Ayampe over a month now. Life has settled into a regular rhythm for us here. It’s a pretty chill little place. We have a great little house, plenty of food around (with lots of fresh mango, passionfruit, papaya, and bananas), and it generally only ever rains at night. The days are […]

Surf

I am laying here, still awake, in the nearly-complete darkness of five o’clock AM, listening to the sound of seventeen rhythmless four year-olds playing death metal ballads on the metal roof of our bungalow with rubber mallets. It has rained — jungle rained — all night, and for some insidious reason the architect of this […]

A surf video… From Last Year.

Since I am so good at keeping up with things on this blog, I figured I would post this video from Kwajalein. It was made up of bits of video taken throughout the winter last year, so it may not be the most relevant to our current travels. The upshot of living in a tiny […]

Ayampe!

After a month of hectic travel around Panama, moving every one to seven days, driving for four to eight hours between spots, and then flights to Ecuador (and another rental car and a four-hour drive up the coast), we finally made it to Ayampe. This is the spot we have chosen to settle in for […]

Those Caribbean shores.

We took a walk on the Northeastern part of Isla Colon, the island that Bocas Del Toro town is on. It was a really nice walk, and quite a few of the animals that were on a previous post were on this walk, but this one is more just about how beautiful these remote Caribbean […]

Playa Morrillo To Bocas Del Toro

In keeping with my squirrel-on-crack timelines for things, I should probably go back a bit in our Panama adventures… Walking out to surf Playa Morillo with Mathias, one of the owners of Casa Morillo. It is a clean, comfortable spot on Playa Morillo, with a great bar and nice clean rooms. It has been on […]

Panama! And Some critters.

Yep. We ended up stopping in Panama on our way to Ecuador. We decided to stay a month and see the rest of the spots we didn’t see back in 2016. And we stopped to see my sister Dolly and her guy Mark. It was a really great visit! They were kind enough to let […]

Flight

This is a story I started writing a while back, and haven’t worked on in over a year. I spend so much time trying to write and edit my stories, and sometimes they take on this monstrous life of their own and haunt my sleep. I almost never share my work, but this one seemed […]

See ya Kwajalein… It’s been interesting.

We have been here a year now. It has been a year of mixed emotions. I know I have not posted much in here about the island, but the times I have posted have been about how much fun we have been having. But, like everything else in life, it hasn’t always been tropical beaches, […]