Come with me! I am on the brink of another adventure in Latin America. It will take me through Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala and Belize. Last time many of you kept me company through this blog. I truly appreciated it and I hope you will peek into the trip now and then. I hope to improve Version 2.0 with audio and video. Lucky for me, I have real life travel buddies this time! Hurray! EA Audio Ninja Scott, Venice Beach Dave, MOM and 2 unknown travel buddies I have yet to meet. For you audio geeks out there...I have recently gotten the Zoom H2. As you know, this baby records in QUAD! I did an ultra-fast experiment today in one of those dirty hippy drum circles in Venice Beach. I am recording in ... read more

The final leg of the mainland Ecuador trip has just wrapped up tonight. This section was more focused on cultural markets and towns and consequently less adrenaline packed. It was actually nice to relax and take things in at a casual pace. Some of the highlights included going to the Equator at Latitude Longitude measurement of 0 0 0. Strangely enough there are actually 2 monuments for this special location...one created by the French a few hundred years ago based upon geographical measurements and one that was recently created by GPS. The GPS is about 100 yards down the road and is supposed to be Ultra accurate. We were given all sorts of neat facts about the uniqueness of the Equator including some gravitational experiments with spinning water and egg balancing. Some people claim these are ... read more

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! We also bought rice and beans and of course....lots of chocolate. After shopping, we met with the family we will be staying with. They are Quechan Indians that have lived in the jungle for their ... read more

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 ideas! As I get closer to my gate, my sore thumbness begins to stick out more and more. No one is speaking english. Even the announcements tend to exist only in spanish. Everyone is very ... read more

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 hours home and we were picked up by the blogmaster himself tom...and it is his apartment where i type this messege now....and so ends the tales from abroad. I hope at least some of you ... read more