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Working on the Water Again
Life is good. Life is very, very good. Not only do we have our world bursting at the seams on the homestead, I’ve started a new adventure back on the salt this summer. I’ve gotten my ASA sailing...
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Crawling With Life
“Katie, go back in the bedroom and shut the door.” These were my ill chosen words, a futile attempt to shield Katie from the serpent filled reality that we had just entered. It’s not that I was...
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Guest Post: Tales from a Visiting Abuelo
Thoughts held a few hours ago, elude me more often than I would care to admit, but there is one memory from fifty years ago that still lives as clear as ever. It is of the azure water of the...
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Salvation Via Isolation – Isla Damas: Part 1
After showing us the bedrooms and giving us the WiFi password, Allison the owner mentioned casually that a crocodile lived in the pond in the backyard, and that we might get a glimpse if we were...
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Habitat and Inhabitants – Isla Damas: Part 2
The next morning we awoke and retraced our steps back across the river, the boatmen ferrying us from the tranquility and solitude of Isla Damas and into the fray that is the town of Quepos as we...
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Out of My Comfort Zone
The Osa Peninsula in southwestern Costa Rica is said to be the most biodiverse place on the planet. It has held onto this esteemed title because it has been remote and difficult to access since time...
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Desert School 2020
The start to our day: nature journaling As Covid cases began to spike in Washington we decided to pull Finn out of school for the last week before our trip. As the atmospheric river unleashed it’s...
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Finn Tracks a Cougar
After two brutal days of driving through torrential downpour, heavy winds, and even a white out blizzard crossing the Sierra Nevada range, we finally made it to the Great Basin Desert in Northeast...
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Thanksgiving with the Paiute
This year one of our goals on the journey was to seek out some of the cultural and historical sites that the desert southwest has to offer. For Katie and myself, our public school education...
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