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 […]

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 […]