July 13-July 25, 2022 Fort Providence- Tulita Setting out from Fort Providence we navigated our first thunder and lightning deluge. We’ve watched them skirt the river and it was fascinating…

June 6 – 19, 2022 We set off on our bikes from Arno and Elaine’s woodland reprieve feeling goofy and confident. We took our time, balancing covering ground with this…

Those of you who’ve been reading along all these years will understand our trepidation about returning to Nicaragua or even whether we would be allowed back in. I am delighted…

In brief I would say the western highlands and Cordillera Central are beautiful and welcoming enough to warrant slow travel. East of Tegucigalpa is not an area to loiter unless…

Public adaptation of a Patreon post which was shared in March, as events unfolded. [In real time we are in Canada, preparing to canoe the Arctic Drainage.] Greetings from the…

Late February 2022 [In real time we are in southern Canada, preparing to canoe the Arctic Drainage. The transition from completing Central America to coming back to the north has…

February 2022 “Febrero loco, Marzo otro poco.” – Mexican Saying   Diversity abounds throughout Mexico and Central America. Language, culture, weather, climate, food, and vegetation all change from one valley…

Latter half of January 2022 “We do not learn from an experience … We learn from reflecting on an experience.” -Adaptation from A John Dewey discourse Once we were out…

Ahuehuetes, or the Montezma baldcypress, are Mexico’s national tree. The name comes from the Nahuatl (a family of Uto-Aztec languages) meaning “upright water drum” or “old man of the water.”…

Once upon a time, we rode through a land where they build the roads around trees. Malinalco is another of the Pueblos Mágicos of Mexico. I stopped to take this…