A Day In The Life… In (and around) Ayampe!

We have been in Ayampe over a month now. Life has settled into a regular rhythm for us here. It’s a pretty chill little place. We have a great little house, plenty of food around (with lots of fresh mango, passionfruit, papaya, and bananas), and it generally only ever rains at night. The days are […]

Ayampe!

After a month of hectic travel around Panama, moving every one to seven days, driving for four to eight hours between spots, and then flights to Ecuador (and another rental car and a four-hour drive up the coast), we finally made it to Ayampe. This is the spot we have chosen to settle in for […]

Those Caribbean shores.

We took a walk on the Northeastern part of Isla Colon, the island that Bocas Del Toro town is on. It was a really nice walk, and quite a few of the animals that were on a previous post were on this walk, but this one is more just about how beautiful these remote Caribbean […]

Playa Morrillo To Bocas Del Toro

In keeping with my squirrel-on-crack timelines for things, I should probably go back a bit in our Panama adventures… Walking out to surf Playa Morillo with Mathias, one of the owners of Casa Morillo. It is a clean, comfortable spot on Playa Morillo, with a great bar and nice clean rooms. It has been on […]

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 […]

Psst… Hey buddy. Need a used car?

Part four (or is it part five? I can’t remember any longer) of our trip to Pohnpei last July (yep. Still haven’t gotten to the surf trip in October) finds us driving around the island in our rental car. Strangely, all the cars here are from Asian countries so they are right-hand drive cars, but […]

Some flowers in the sun, after a rain

Okay, we still haven’t made it to posting about our surf trip to Pohnpei in October. This will be the fourth installment of our week-long trip to Pohnpei back in July. Yeah, I know. I have been terrible about keeping up, but there was a lot of pretty cool stuff in Pohnpei. We took a […]

Nerds in front of waterfalls.

Number three in the continuing Pohnpei saga is about a couple of nerds who visit waterfalls (shoot, we still aren’t caught up to our most recent surf trip). One nerd does it with some kind of weird waterfall FOMO (fear of missing out) bordering on a squirrel-on-crack-obsessiveness. The other nerd? Well, that one tags along […]

A Walk Around Nan Madol

In the spirit of keeping up with our travels in a timely manner, I mentioned in the last post that we were on Pohnpei for some surfing. This is not that post. Instead, it is a post about a trip we took there in July, to hike, visit a million waterfalls, and visit the ruins […]

Here Be Dragons…

I have always loved the saying – the legend on maps – from the Middle Ages and the time of oceanic exploration that says, “here be dragons”. It was such a great description of those places marked on maps, yet to be discovered, where people had not yet traveled, or had not explored fully enough […]