Wow I´m supposed to be partaking in a game of cards at the moment but I feel I should tell you a tad bit about my time in Columbia. It´s been great from start to finish. The thing that I noticed most is how nice and helpful the people are. My first day after crossing over from Ecuador I had some troubles finding a bank where I could withdraw money. So the cleaning lady from one of the banks just left work and took me around to all the banks in the area until we found one that worked. I appreciated [View Full Entry]

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Hey it´s been forever since my last blog. I´ll try and keep it more up to date but for starters here´s some photos! [View Full Entry]

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I don´t have a whole lot to say about good old Canoa. It´s just a village on the beach, not much going on. I just wanted one last chance to do some surfing before heading inland so Jaakko and I stayed 5 days and hit the water as much as possible. I guess the most memorable part was the full day journey it took to get there when we estimated to be about 3 hours. We took a bus (they told us direct to Canoa) which stopped in some random town. They tole us to get off and that we´d [View Full Entry]

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What can you really say about Mointanita? It´s a must-stop tourist trap along the coast of Ecuador. Generally people seem to get stuck here for a while because it´s an easy place to get into the routine of sleeping in, surfing, eating, and partying. There were actually a few gringos around and I found myself having some mid-afternoon beers with a Canadian guy, a Portugese guy, a guy from somewhere in the middle east, and a couple Ecuadorian guys from a nearby city. This was quite an odd gang. The older Ecuadorian guy was having the time of his life [View Full Entry]

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Man I´m a sucker for the beach. I guess when you´ve lived thousands of kilometers from the nearest ocean your whole life you have to soak it up while you can. Mancora has been good times. It´s a little town on the coast in the north of Peru, not far from the Ecuadorian border. I was lucky to find a room right on the beach, or just to find a room period. The place was pretty full and there aren´t many single rooms available. Harldy anyone travels in South America is traveling alone and I can see why. It´s quite [View Full Entry]

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Hmmm I really should keep these blogs up to date but I´m simply doing too much relaxing to get ANYTHING done. Seriously, the beach can really drain a guy of his ambition. Anyways, I spent the better part of a week in Huanchaco, which was once a small fishing village. Now it´s a small village where people from the nearby city of Trujillo come to chill out. It´s summer holidays here now so the place was pretty busy. I tell ya, the best way to meet people in South America is to have a guitar. Everyone plays guitar! I had [View Full Entry]

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Wow what an ordeal in Lima! I lost my bank card within 20 minutes of being in South America. Yep, right in the damn airport inside an ATM. I got the cash (Peruvian Soles) and the receipt but somehow overlooked retrieving my most valuable posession: my bank card. The ATMs are a bit different here and you have to hit a button to eject the card. I´d like to blame it on the fact that it was like 1:00 am and I had just gotten off of a long plane ride, but I think maybe I´m just retarded. So needless [View Full Entry]

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Well it´s about time I did a bit of a blog I suppose! My flight to Peru was via Toronto so I decided to stick around and visit my buddy Mr. Ty Backlun for a week. He and a friend of his picked me up in Toronto and took me back to Grimsby where Backs lives for a few welcome to Ontario beers. Ty´s girlfriend Laura had a delicious supper waiting for us but other than that it was nice to just chat and have a few cold ones. Now for Ontarians Niagara Falls is nothing special but I was thrilled [View Full Entry]

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Wow after all that money and such a short time later I'm coming home! I can accept it a little easier returning to decent weather and with a few extra bucks, unlike last year in November. That was way too depressing. Well we had a great time at the Moldenhauer's place and got to see a lot more of Coff's Harbour than we ever would have had we just been there at a hostel. Thanks so much to Devin and Kimberley for everything! The best was a place called Pet Porpoise Pool, where you could go and interact with animals [View Full Entry]

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Hey I'm staying in Coff's Harbour with a fellow Weyburnite. I called up Devin Moldenhauer, who's been living in Aus for like 6 years and he was kind enough to let me stay with him and his wife in their lovely home. Not only that, but Sofia and I are hanging out again until we both go home......on May 10th! That's right, I'm leaving early so I can return home with enough money to (hopefully) have some crazy times for the long weekend in May. So yeah, I was staying in Byron Bay at the Arts Factory jungle camp. I [View Full Entry]

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