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 […]

A “where’s Waldo” moment…

I was just thinking this morning, as I sat listening to the rain in our new comfy little colonial house in Weligama, that it has been almost three weeks since we moved down here. I guess we should do a little “Where’s Waldo update, so if anyone wants to know where we are, here goes. […]

A Little more Tuk Tuk’ing And Elephant Looking.

This is the last one. I promise. I just had some video of all of our recent self-drive safari-ing, and wanted to get that in here, This one is just silly. A bit more tuk tuk travel, but this time not a danger bus in sight. Mostly water buffaloes. And bad roads. We took this […]

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) […]

Arugam BAy: Pets, Surf, And Self-Drive Safaris. Part One: The Pets

We spent a month in Arugam Bay for the surf and beach time it promises. It didn’t really disappoint, and we stayed at a cute, comfortable, little house for the month we were there. We rented the house from a German girl named Anne, who has been here for years, and has carved out a […]

Sunday Afternoon In Okanda, Part Three: The wildlife.

Part three of our mellow Sunday adventure is about the animals living in this area. As I said before, in parts one and two, we were driving the tuk tuk along the North and East borders of Kumana National Park. The only legal access into the park is by jeep safari, which is pretty cheap, […]

Sunday Afternoon in Okanda, Part Two: The temples.

Part two of our lazy Okanda adventure day finds us visiting a couple of very old temples (yes, more temples), situated on big granite domes in the middle of lagoons, forest, and the savanna country bordering the Kumana National Park. The first was a hindu temple, as mentioned in part one, called Ukanthamalai Murugan Kovil. […]

Sunday Afternoon in Okanda, Part One: The Town.

Just to warn you, this post was going to be too long for a single post, so it has become three separate posts. Read on at your leisure for part one… We took a Sunday afternoon drive the other day. We set out to check the surf at a spot about an hour South of […]

Relaxing into Sri Lanka

I woke up this morning feeling rested. Relaxed. Generally, I do not sleep well for the first few nights in a new place, and this house was no exception, but it took a little longer for me to settle in here. Tam and I have, more often than not, been finding places with air conditioning […]

Tuk trucking: On “danger buses”, bad traffic, and finding elephants.

I have been collecting video of our travels in the tuk tuk for a few weeks now. I am a terribly slow video editor, so it took a while to get this all together and posted here. Rather than make a bunch of small posts of each section of our travels, I have decided to […]