Back…

We are back in Oregon. I felt like I should have, but didn’t put an exclamation point behind that statement because I still feel a little weird about being back here. We have actually been back for two and a half weeks, but it has been a whirlwind since we returned. We have driven to […]

Mixed Emotions: On Leaving Asia

We are wrapping it up here in Thailand. In Asia. The time has come that we feel the need to swing back through our home country for a bit. It is time to see Brittany and Collin, time for a beer and a wee dram of whiskey and good conversation with good friends, time to […]

Matt’s Mat

When we left Sri Lanka a few months ago, we had to part company with a trusted family friend: Matt’s Mat. Some history is necessary here I suppose: Matt is a really friendly French guy that we met in early summer of 2023 at Surfpoint Sri Lanka. He is a professional musician and runs a […]

But What About Purpose?

I have spent quite a lot of my time recently, in the last year or so, thinking about purpose. I have (many) people in my life that insist I will go crazy in retirement, and come running home to jump back into the rat race. All for the reason that our lives will lack the drive […]

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 […]

Wow! One Year.

I was just digging through all of the forty two thousand pictures we have taken since we left on January ninth last year, and, holy shit! It has been one year today. I was thinking I would dig up some highlight photos from everywhere we have been in the last year, and post them on […]

Gone

A man I knew died last night: I wish I knew him better, I didn’t truly know him my whole life. He didn’t die well: I don’t believe It was the death he would have chosen, like his life. He died quietly and alone: He did not take the spectacular hero’s demise in flaming glory. […]

Surf sessions, and the thoughts that come with them.

We just came in from a surf session in Unawatuna (it’s still hard to say that name without chuckling a bit (kind of like the town of Dickwela. Whatever, yes, I am juvenile)), and on the half-hour drive home it came to me how diverse our thoughts and conversations are while we are sitting in […]

Tigger is getting Older…

All my life I have loved the Winnie the Pooh stories, and have taken so many fundamental lessons from them on how to live and be a better person (as well as plenty of tears for the more epiphanous parallels some have offered). The whole gang has played a role, not just in my development […]

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) […]