Gone

A man I knew died last night: I wish I knew him better, I didn’t truly know him my whole life. He didn’t die well: I don’t believe It was the death he would have chosen, like his life. He died quietly and alone: He did not take the spectacular hero’s demise in flaming glory. […]

A tuk tuk on a boat

Sometimes the road just runs out. We were traveling in the North, tuk tukking along, minding our own business on the super primitive Karainagar Island Northwest of Jaffna, and boom! No more road. We could see to Kayts Island, the next island we needed to get to, across a kilometer or so of the Indian […]

A Tuk Tuk Trip Around The North End

When we left Weligama we had just a few spots left to see on the island. The drive turned into a whirlwind of beautiful sights and crazy tuk tuk adventures (more on the adventure part soon). We wanted to see the Southern part of central Sri Lanka, in the mountains (more on this part soon […]

Goodbye WEligama

We have been here in Weligama for two and a half months now, and the time has come to move on. I have mixed emotions as I suppose I do every time we leave a place. Weligama is a busy town, sandwiched between a bunch of other heavily touristed towns in the surrounding sixty kilometer stretch […]

Friendly Rats and MMA Fights in Sri Lanka (In Our Kitchen).

In this case, the MMA stands for Mad Mongoose Attacks (obviously). A completely true, unembellished story, exactly as it happened before breakfast today: We have an open air kitchen at our house in Weligama. It is surrounded by walls, about eight feet high, and part of it (the part over the sink and hotplate are […]

Our little world in and around Weligama

We have just been exploring a bit around Weligama, Midigama, Mirissa, Ahangama, Unawatuna, and the hills North of here lately. I thought I would share some pictures: Just around here: The beaches of Midigama, Ahangama, and Kabalana and a few of my favorite surf breaks. There are so many breaks scattered along this coast, but […]

Surfin’, Fishin’, Beachin’. and eatin’

We had a great day today. Actually we have lots of great days, but this one was extra great. It was the perfect coming together of a bunch of different elements, visuals, and sensations, all shared with the perfect partner. It came the day after Tam was mad at me for being a grumpy shit […]

Cheesy Tourists At the Fort in Galle.

It was Tam’s Birthday yesterday! I couldn’t bring myself to drag her out surfing on her birthday, so we decided (she decided) to go be cheesy tourists somewhere. We picked the Dutch fort in Galle, which has been described to us as “tourist hell”, and “very busy”. It was neither. It actually turned out to […]

Surf sessions, and the thoughts that come with them.

We just came in from a surf session in Unawatuna (it’s still hard to say that name without chuckling a bit (kind of like the town of Dickwela. Whatever, yes, I am juvenile)), and on the half-hour drive home it came to me how diverse our thoughts and conversations are while we are sitting in […]

Gonna try something new here

I am going to start a new category in this blog. I want to experiment with some different writing. I have long thought that I would like to start writing some short stories, and some other strange types of projects, but haven’t had the time. Well, now I am mostly retired and I have some […]