Arugam Bay: Pets, Surf, And Self-Drive Safaris. Part Three: Self-Drive Safaris.

We can only surf so much in one day, then we need to eat and go find some adventuring to do. There are safaris all over around Arugam Bay, both into Kumana National Park and Yala National Park, but both can run around one hundred and fifty to three hundred dollars (for two of us) […]

Arugam BAy: Pets, Surf, And Self-Drive Safaris. Part One: The Pets

We spent a month in Arugam Bay for the surf and beach time it promises. It didn’t really disappoint, and we stayed at a cute, comfortable, little house for the month we were there. We rented the house from a German girl named Anne, who has been here for years, and has carved out a […]

Sunday Afternoon In Okanda, Part Three: The wildlife.

Part three of our mellow Sunday adventure is about the animals living in this area. As I said before, in parts one and two, we were driving the tuk tuk along the North and East borders of Kumana National Park. The only legal access into the park is by jeep safari, which is pretty cheap, […]

The Hard Part Is…

I am aware that there is suffering in this world. In fact, the four noble truths of the teachings of Buddha are (in my simple-minded explanation): 1.) There is suffering. It’s all suffering. The totality of life is suffering. Being born, living, wanting, craving, and dying are all suffering. 2.) The origin of suffering is […]

Critters, critters, and more critters (Mostly On the road).

Riding a motorbike or driving a tuk tuk is always an adventure in Sri Lanka, made significantly more white-knuckled by the presence of every type of animal you can imagine on, and around the roads. The accepted right-of-way here seems to be that the biggest thing has the right of way, in this order: buses, […]

More Monkey Business!

I was looking back through some photos this morning, and I realized that I left out a whole side trip we made in Thailand. We made this long, long day trip to Prachuap Khiri Khan about seventy-five kilometers South of our place in Hua Hin, with one goal in mind: finding the friendly dusky langurs […]

A Short Post.

It was brought to my attention this morning by someone (Yeah, that was you Dad) that my posts are too long… Here is a short one: Tam on an albino water buffalo at the Hua Hin zoo. No promises moving forward. They may get longer again…

Monkeying Around.

This is the first post I have written in my new blog, that wasn’t transferred from the old one. In copying all of those old posts, and rereading them as I went, I realized that there was a bunch of medical problems and relatively serious shit in there. I need to remedy that with something […]