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 […]

The New House

I woke up this morning at five-dark-thirty, surfed for two hours, then came back to our newly rented house. This morning routine seems to be rapidly becoming a permanent pattern while we are here in Arugam Bay (anyone who knows me knows how much I abhor anything in the early morning, especially a routine), but […]

Kiteboarding Kalpitiya… The good, the great, and the ugly.

I suppose it must be time to talk about kiteboarding here in Kalpitiya (and the surrounding area. This blog is supposed to be about wind as well as travel. I have been messing around with video editing a bit the last week or so, so be warned: There will be some videos in this one. […]

The Hard Part Is…

I am aware that there is suffering in this world. In fact, the four noble truths of the teachings of Buddha are (in my simple-minded explanation): 1.) There is suffering. It’s all suffering. The totality of life is suffering. Being born, living, wanting, craving, and dying are all suffering. 2.) The origin of suffering is […]

It is a Ferrari after all!

Well, it turns out all you have to do is go to the local sticker shop, have a couple of custom stickers made (for about four US dollars), slap them on your tuk tuk, and voila! It is a Ferrari! Simple as that…

Critters, critters, and more critters (Mostly On the road).

Riding a motorbike or driving a tuk tuk is always an adventure in Sri Lanka, made significantly more white-knuckled by the presence of every type of animal you can imagine on, and around the roads. The accepted right-of-way here seems to be that the biggest thing has the right of way, in this order: buses, […]

It May Not Be A Ferrari, But…

It is red! Well, we have gone and done it. Twenty years ago, Tam and I were introduced to tuk tuks in Thailand, and fell in love with them. The tuk tuk is probably the toughest, most versatile, and highly used mode of transport in less-developed countries all over the world. They are simple, easy […]

Those Smiles, Though…

There are many reasons we decided to stay where we are, at Surfpoint Sri Lanka, in spite of the fact that it is a tiny bit more expensive than other places. It is right on the ocean (which here is one of the only places: the rest are on lagoons), close to kiting, the food […]