Thailand… Heading South.

We flew into Bangkok nine days ago, and spent five of those in and out of a couple of different hospitals to do our annual/semiannual health checkups and screenings, labs, and x-rays. We always try to get this… Haha! just as I was writing that last sentence, I was pooped on by a gecko hiding […]

Surf

I am laying here, still awake, in the nearly-complete darkness of five o’clock AM, listening to the sound of seventeen rhythmless four year-olds playing death metal ballads on the metal roof of our bungalow with rubber mallets. It has rained — jungle rained — all night, and for some insidious reason the architect of this […]

A surf video… From Last Year.

Since I am so good at keeping up with things on this blog, I figured I would post this video from Kwajalein. It was made up of bits of video taken throughout the winter last year, so it may not be the most relevant to our current travels. The upshot of living in a tiny […]

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 […]

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 […]