¨Poor Mans´ Galapagos¨

Puerto Lopez is the jumping off point for most travelers visiting Ecuador´s Machalilla National Park. The town itself is mostly falling down with pigs and donkeys roaming the streets and the ever-present smell of the cities succesful fishing industry. In fact, the only thing...

The rush to Mantañita from Quito was the stuff off dreams. We landed in the noisy dirty city on Wednesday night and had been ushered to a bus station early Thursday to buy tickets for the Trans Esmeraldas bus to Salinas without haste. The busses stopped running for the weekend from the mountains and...

“The trouble with the future is that it usually arrives before we’re ready for it.”  ~  Arnold H. Glasow

My boyfriend is building cat condos. He is building cat condos and washing dishes. He is building cat condos, washing dishes and freelancing as a bicycle mechanic. We are leaving...

Greetings!

Welcome to my world. I am a 25 year old North American living in the Northwest temperate rainforest. I've grown up seasonaly migrating between Sitka, Alaska; Port Townsend, Washington; and Maui, Hawaii. Now I keep myself mostly in the near-Canadian border town of Bellingham, Washington, where...