Aloha mis amigos, After a rip roaring good time in the jungle, we had to depart back to civilization. A shame really cause I could easily spend weeks or months exploring the Amazon. In fact, I am reading a book about a guy who kayaked the entire 4500 miles of the river. Pretty amazing. After a long bus trip, we landed in a town called banos. It is a hub for adventure activities and fun bars. It is also surrounded by volcanoes. We attempted to drive up close to it so that we could hear and feel it. Sadly it chose [View Full Entry]

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hi friends. Please forgive me for this Mega-Post…but it is trying to capture 4 rad days of jungle. My journey has carved deeper into the heart of Ecuador. It has been exciting, awe-inspiring and heart breaking. After a few more bumpy bus rides we arrive in the jungle town of Tena. This is where many of the Amazon families and tours stock up on supplies. Our guide suggested we buy some food and gifts here to give to the families and schools as a token of our appreciation. My gift idea was a ball for the school children. Yeah for games! [View Full Entry]

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Buenas! So I spent the beginning of the next day comparing and bargaining for a sweet Galapagos scuba diving trip for when I return to Quito. After quite a bit of walking and hand gesturing, I came across an amazing boat that will hit all of the best dive spots in the galapagos. It will be ridiculous. Later that day, I met up with my tour group. I will be spending massive amounts of time with these folks over the next 2 weeks. It turns out there are only 3 other tourists and a guide. This should be good for getting [View Full Entry]

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Hola! So the journey has begun. After months of exhaustive theoretical adventure speculation and a mere handful of hours of specific ecuador planning, I am typing this message in Quito Ecuador. It all started off rather frustating. I was running a tad bit late for my flight in LA when I get to my car and it doesn´t start. Doh! So a slow traffic cab ride later (where the cabbie curiously investigates my travel intentions) I am hanging out in the International wing of LAX. I always love gawking at the diverse people and exotic destinations. It gives great future travel [View Full Entry]

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Greetings digital on-lookers! This shall be the hot live feed to my adventures in Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands. I intend to post my deep cathartic ramblings and stereotype shattering photography on this travel blog. I welcome you all to respond to my posts. It will surely help remind me of your delightful faces. These are some photos of a killer canoe trip I did last weekend on the Colorado River. The scenary was stunning and the company was great. It also gave me a chance to test out some of my new adventure gear. YEEHAW! p.s. - This entry serves [View Full Entry]

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phew! We finished up our grand ol trip with a trip to the cadbury chocolate factory and the steepest street in the world. The factory provided a nice insite into the choco-world not to mention some free sweats. yum. The streepest street gave me an oppurtunity to run off those extra calories. We also ran into some english friends from over a month ago at the beginning of our traveling in australia. It was great to catch up with them. So drained of energy and money our pacific extravaganza had to come to and end. The flight was a wopping 13 [View Full Entry]

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hi. my name is brad. i am in new zealand. and we have seen yet even more cool stuff. Yesterday we finished up the adventure city of Queenstown with the famous Gondola. This is the launching spot for several hot activities. Bunjee, parasail etc. It is essentially a modern indoor skilift sort of thing to the top of a very large hill. Of course it cost way too much, and being hte ultra-fit people we are...me and lara hiked our way up. It made us stinky and hot on a cold day...but we felt o-so in-tune with nature. At the top [View Full Entry]

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so we have arrived in the adventure capital of the world: Queenstown, New Zealand. This town has more insane activities than i have even heard of all gathered together in one tremendous "Lifes short-play hard" sorta town. For starters, this is where A.J. Hackett invented bunjee...so we went to this sacred birthplace and watched a few blokes tumble off a bridge. Did we do it? no. we both have told ourselves it is too expensive and we have no money...which is true...but also part of me is weeny of course. It also has some variations of this like bunjee from a [View Full Entry]

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howdy hey, So we have shuffled down the coast abit to a city called franz josef. This is a very tiny town sitting at the edge of a glacier...with the primary function of getting people up there and hiking around...so thats just what we did today. We all geared up and did a walk to what they call the Terminal Face of the glacier. This is where the ground meets the ice. Our guide explained a few interesting things along the way...2 of the most interesting being: the glacier moves 3-4 meters a day....and Franz Josef is the steepest commercially climbed [View Full Entry]

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hello friends, me and lara have arrived in new zealand. As anticipated, the coldness factor is great. We flew into the social hub of auckland in the north island(new zealand is made up of 2 islands) and then flew into the very english city of christchurch. Strangely enough we ran into some people we surfed with a month ago. Small world (after all). Yesterday we converged upon new zealands largest Thermal Reserve. These are a collection of naturally hot springs collected in a friendly resort atmosphere in the snowy mountains. One section of pools was heated from sulpher and was about [View Full Entry]

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