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 […]

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 […]

Ye Olde Patches McGee

It’s been a little bit! I have been terrible at keeping up lately. For reasons I am not able to go into (for reasons I am not able to go into), I have been kind of buried in my own misery of working too much and sorely missing my status as a curmudgeonly old retired […]

Kiteboarding Palawan: Blood, Sand, And Saltwater

We have been kiting quite a lot. We found some really great, remote, uncrowded spots to kite, mostly in lagoons, inside reefs, with onshore wind, and lots and lots of coral. By now, in our travels, and owing mostly to the fact that I never really wore shoes if I wasn’t required to most of […]

Too Much Gear And The Tuk Tuk Mafia

We have been traveling for fourteen months. We travel to chase wind and waves and adventure. We kite, surf, snorkel and freedive, and because of this we need to travel with a ton of gear and a pretty hefty first-aid kit. When you include all the gear, Tam and I each travel with two bags […]

A Fun Bunch Of Travel Companions

We left Sri Lanka to go to the Philippines because a group of friends from Southern California were taking a three-week trip there to kite, explore, and relax. We thought it would be nice to hang out with friends from back home, and it was. What a great bunch to travel with. We moved a […]

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 […]

Goodbye WEligama

We have been here in Weligama for two and a half months now, and the time has come to move on. I have mixed emotions as I suppose I do every time we leave a place. Weligama is a busy town, sandwiched between a bunch of other heavily touristed towns in the surrounding sixty kilometer stretch […]

Our little world in and around Weligama

We have just been exploring a bit around Weligama, Midigama, Mirissa, Ahangama, Unawatuna, and the hills North of here lately. I thought I would share some pictures: Just around here: The beaches of Midigama, Ahangama, and Kabalana and a few of my favorite surf breaks. There are so many breaks scattered along this coast, but […]

Surfin’, Fishin’, Beachin’. and eatin’

We had a great day today. Actually we have lots of great days, but this one was extra great. It was the perfect coming together of a bunch of different elements, visuals, and sensations, all shared with the perfect partner. It came the day after Tam was mad at me for being a grumpy shit […]