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Travel musings / Panama

Tweaks, beaks, tails and tales

February 2, 2020February 14, 2020 - 8 Comments.

While I was watching the howler monkeys blunder through the trees one day, I saw a mama reach out and grab a branch, stretching her body into a bridge for her baby to cross to the next tree. In a way, this blog is like that mama.

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Panama / Travel musings

When life gives you platanos, make patacones!

January 29, 2020February 14, 2020 - 6 Comments.

We’ve perfected the art of making patacones and it’s smashing good fun. Literally!

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HelpX: more real than an idyllic resort vacation

January 19, 2020February 14, 2020 - 12 Comments.

Hot, humid and sweaty – that’s Panama by the beach in January. But we’re not lying around sipping mojitos. Instead, we’re helping a guy named Gilbert, whom we met through HelpX.

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Costa Rica / Travel musings

Spotting wildlife is tricky business… for me

January 13, 2020February 14, 2020 - 12 Comments.

Despite my best, most concentrated and earnest efforts, I am terrible at spotting wildlife. And if you can’t spot wildlife in Costa Rica, where monkeys and morphos are everywhere, you’re very, very bad at it.

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