Row, Row, Row Your Boat, Using Only Your Feet!
Some times when you are traveling, you really have no idea where you are going. You know the time has come to move on, but you really have not chosen […]
Category Archives: Adventure
Hoi An – A Historical Treasure
Going back to my single days, I found that the one thing you can never do on a date is go with expectations. If you bring that baggage along, then […]
Mina – Queen of the Jungle
For a more detailed account of our adventures in Sumatra, check out these links. Mina -Terror in the Jungle Revenge of the Mina Monkeys with Drug Problems All images are […]
Easy Rider II – The Ho Chi Minh Trail
There’s a magical feel when you climb on to a bike. You give her a nice kick-start, turn the throttle slightly and feel her purr to life, you release the […]
Easy Rider I – A Close Shave
Leaving Dalat was a sad pill for us to take, because we had really gotten a chance to relax there. We had our routines, and though they were not exciting […]
Thirty Day Challenge II – Final Results
Starting on April 18, I challenged myself to do a drawing a day from life for the next thirty days. The art was never meant to be finished art, but […]
A Whale Of A Day
Whale Sharks, big as a bus and just as tough. There is nothing like swimming with the biggest fish in the world, even crazier that it’s a Shark! In Cebu […]
Sketches From Under The Sea – 79 Feet Under
Normally I would put this under my Sketches from the road section, but I thought it was just too much fun to save it. This morning at five am in […]
Thirty Day Challenge II – Past The Midway Point
This challenge was meant to start on April 15, but due to some time spent in a Chinese hospital with a nasty virus, then travel to Myanmar, and the Water […]
Legazpi
UPDATE May 7, 2013 We are back in the Philippines on Malapascua Island, where we met a guy on the beach who said he just received a text that the…
Easy Rider
Day 1 200 km After a week in Nha Trang, we decided we needed something very different, so after some research, we chose to go with Easy Rider to Dalat. […]
Hysterics at Sea
Coming up to the coastline of Koh Tao, I instantly felt something was very different about the island. From afar it rose up out of the water, mountainous peaks breaking […]
Ten Days Left – A Sketch A Day – Thirty Day Challenge
So here we are, a little more than two thirds of the way through the challenge, and things are going great. I started this in Cambodia, and now I am […]
Cannibalism and Landslides
If you were to look at Sumatra from a thousand miles up, there would be few landforms that would be noticeable from the air, but on the Northern part of […]
Revenge of Mina – A Jungle Tale in Sumatra
Butic Luwang is located in Northern Sumatra, in a jungle clad valley with a raging river running through it. One side of the river is a very idyllic town, on […]
Mina – Terror in the Jungle
We flew out of Singapore to Medan, Indonesia. The flight was uneventful enough, but at customs we had forgotten to take money out of my checked luggage, and we only […]
A Love Affair with Durian
Malaysia’s Modern Metropolis
Ironies being ironies, we had no idea how close we were going to be to where we hung out in China Town, literally a half block from the entrance. We […]
Thailand Tattoo
Artificial Reefs and New Friends
One of the great thing about the Gili’s Islands is how active the dive centers are into conservation. Of course you think that is a given, but it actually isn’t. […]
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