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 […]

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 […]

A tuk tuk on a boat

Sometimes the road just runs out. We were traveling in the North, tuk tukking along, minding our own business on the super primitive Karainagar Island Northwest of Jaffna, and boom! No more road. We could see to Kayts Island, the next island we needed to get to, across a kilometer or so of the Indian […]

A Tuk Tuk Trip Around The North End

When we left Weligama we had just a few spots left to see on the island. The drive turned into a whirlwind of beautiful sights and crazy tuk tuk adventures (more on the adventure part soon). We wanted to see the Southern part of central Sri Lanka, in the mountains (more on this part soon […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Cheesy Tourists At the Fort in Galle.

It was Tam’s Birthday yesterday! I couldn’t bring myself to drag her out surfing on her birthday, so we decided (she decided) to go be cheesy tourists somewhere. We picked the Dutch fort in Galle, which has been described to us as “tourist hell”, and “very busy”. It was neither. It actually turned out to […]