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: Conservation
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Singapore Sling
We came upon a massive complex, with all clean lines, stainless steel and glass. A cavernous mouth greeted us large enough for the Millenium Falcon and a few squads of […]
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. […]
Adventures of Captain Bintang, Aliikai Part 2
Day 3 The next day we arrived at a small volcanic island named Satonda that had a huge crater in the center that was filled with water. We hiked around […]
The Land of Dragons, Aliikai Part 1
Day 1 Time had come for our boat journey to begin. We were to meet our guide Niko at the port around 9 am to get ready to board our […]
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from the Tropics!
Monkeys With Drug Problems!
Virgins, Magic Mushrooms, and the Gili’s
Well we woke up fresh from that exhausting trip in a small port town of Padang Bai. Feeling good, great actually, after our exhausting trip, we looked at the world […]
Seeking Nirvana in Java
It’s three A.M. in the morning, and the iPad is making a high pitched creepy wailing sound building up in intensity to an unearthly crescendo. With puffy eyes I slap […]
Catching Crabs in the Tropics
Palawan, A Tropical Paradise
Well this story is getting old I know, the whole rush rush rush via public transportation to get where you are going. Always ending the blog and starting the blog […]
Bohol Bliss
So we fly into Cebu, have all the normal hassles that we’ve come to love with airports. Knowing that we had no interest in staying in a major city, we […]
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