Hasta La Vista Ecuador!

Sitting in another airport, waiting on another flight. This time we ended up with a seven hour wait between flights between the Galápagos Islands and an overnight back into the US. We will be back in Bend tomorrow afternoon. From Ecuador. Ecuador. I guess what I can say is… Wow. I cannot believe the sheer […]

Galapa-going Crazy About All The Animals

We have been in the Galapagos for almost a month now, and we have two days left. We were both a bit thrashed and sunburned, so we took a day off to get some projects done. So here is one of my projects: I just wanted to share some photos of the animals around here. […]

Some Small Wave Silliness In The Galapagos.

I have been out for a number of surf sessions since we have been here in the Galapagos. The South swell surf on San Cristobal Island tends to be pretty heavy, with some pretty serious consequences involving some very sharp rocks. The problem is, the surf breaks too close to the rocks when the waves […]

Sea Lions, turtles, and Iguanas, Oh My.

We made it to the Galapagos! We were originally planning on skipping the islands, because it is really expensive to travel here, but we managed to find a house on San Cristobal that was mostly in our budget and we are planning on eating a lot of Top Ramen and tuna fish. We already agree […]

An Interview With A Wet Explorer Traveling Reluctantly on Amazon Tributaries.

Interviewer (INT): Well, you have just spent seven days traveling in the Ecuadorian and Peruvian tributaries of the upper Amazon basin. What would you say is your first impression? Wet Explorer Traveling Reluctantly on Amazon Tributaries (WET RAT): It’s really wet. Int: Anything else? WET RAT: Probably too much to describe. There is so much […]

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 […]

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 […]