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 […]

Sunset Walks In The Desert

We had to come to Tucson. Neither Tam or I really like it here. There are too many bad memories and too much bad juju around this place for us. This has been the summer of helping elderly parents move into assisted living and all of the fun, government, bureaucratic paperwork that goes along with […]

Mixed Emotions: On Leaving Asia

We are wrapping it up here in Thailand. In Asia. The time has come that we feel the need to swing back through our home country for a bit. It is time to see Brittany and Collin, time for a beer and a wee dram of whiskey and good conversation with good friends, time to […]

A Little Bit More Monkey Business

Last year I wrote a post called “Monkeying Around”, about some of the monkeys living around us here in Hua Hin. We have been back several times to Wat Takiap (or Monkey Mountain as it is more commonly known) to visit the temple there, even as it is protected by a pack of perverted little […]

Abandoned Churches And Happy Goats

Tam gets these crazy notions sometimes. Honestly, most of the time it turns into some crazy amazing adventure and we find some remarkable uncrowded mysto cool spot. But not always… Sometimes it turns into a ninety degree stifling bushwhack through dense jungle foliage interlaced with big fucking spiderwebs. Yuck. All this for a mysterious waterfall […]

Tide pools In Lagoons On Mindoro Island: The Beautiful And The Truly Strange

I woke up early the other day, and I noticed the tide was way out in the lagoon (this was when we were staying on the Southeast corner of Mindoro Island). Our bungalow was just some thin thatched walls and roof, and we left the door open for some ventilation all night so that in […]

So Long Sri Lanka

We have been here for nine months. It has started to feel like home. And, as with any home, it comes with its goods and bads. Thankfully the list of goods is much, much longer than the little list of bads (and honestly, the bads ain’t all that bad). I can’t possibly do this list […]

Two Princesses

We rescued a dog. This was back in June (or July, I can’t remember). She was found starving to death with her two siblings on a remote island when a group of kiters from our place found them. It took a couple of days to get back to them, but when we did two of […]

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 […]

A Little more Tuk Tuk’ing And Elephant Looking.

This is the last one. I promise. I just had some video of all of our recent self-drive safari-ing, and wanted to get that in here, This one is just silly. A bit more tuk tuk travel, but this time not a danger bus in sight. Mostly water buffaloes. And bad roads. We took this […]