Intrepid Mom

The Playing Field is Underway!

Linda — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 17:17:44 +0000

Thanks to our never-say-die friends on the ground in Kenya and the generous contributions of our family and friends all over the world, the playground at Solio Public School in Nyeri, Kenya has begun. As you can see above, the heavy equipment has moved in and work is progressing very quickly. The first picture shows...

Coming Home – Part 1

Linda — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 14:55:24 +0000

We are on our way home, sitting now on an Air Canada flight from San Jose, Costa Rica, where we have spent the last 6 weeks of our journey, heading back to the comfort and familiarity of the home in Toronto we left almost 12 months ago. We munch on chips, sip our drinks and...

My Hippie Life in the 21st Century

Linda — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:42:24 +0000

So here I sit in a bamboo yoga studio, surrounded by the Costa Rican highland jungle. Across from me a 20-something with dreadlocks and piercings in her lip stretches to the tunes of The Who. A young man with a long blonde ponytail and a beaded necklace greets us as he walks by, offering hugs...

Christopher’s Month in Grenada

Christopher — Thu, 24 May 2012 21:54:33 +0000

When I was in Grenada, my dad and I took the PADI Open Water Scuba Diving certification course. It was a lot of work but now I’m certified! For the course we had to read through a 5-pound book and do a test every chapter. The book talked about how to save a drowning diver,...

Melissa’s Month in Grenada (so far)

Melissa — Sat, 05 May 2012 18:32:11 +0000

When we first arrived in Grenada I was sad to leave Ecuador and the house there with the dogs. But our new place in Grenada has a dog named Brownie and 3 little kittens (Speedy, Speedet, Lizzy). The Sylvester family owns them. They have 2 kids. One of them is a girl named Lilly and...

Leopard mom and her cubs

Tony — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:16:16 +0000

Our Internet in Grenada is the fastest we’ve had since… Toronto. So I’m celebrating by uploading some video from our travels. I shot this sequence in The Maasai Mara National Reserve at the end of November. We were traveling with Petra and Sammy from Sandai Lodge in Kenya. This is a raw video experience, no...

Who are we?

Tony — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 16:57:42 +0000

We were in town the other day visiting a batik printing studio/store when the shopkeeper showed us the cruise ship schedule and warned us to stay out of downtown the following Monday and Wednesday. “They’re not like you.” She said. “They swarm into town, browse through the shops and don’t really buy anything.” Picking on...

Ecuador – Our Routine Life

Linda — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 14:42:33 +0000

As we settle in for a month in our new home-away-from-home in Ecuador, I realize how much we like our routines. Since leaving our stay in Thailand in February, we were pretty much living out of suitcases as we toured through Phuket and Borneo, and across the ocean to Quito and the Galapagos. Not a...

Back to the Future

Linda — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 21:17:24 +0000

I feel like I’ve stepped into a time capsule. After traveling in one direction for 8 months, we have arrived back to the same time-zone we departed from but coming at it from the back-end. In fact, by flying eastward and crossing the Pacific Ocean, we gained back the day we lost when we flew...

Borneo Expedition

Tony — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 04:00:12 +0000

In the 2004 sequel – Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid a group of scientists take a slow boat up a river in Borneo in search of a magical flower, they end up being squeezed by a pack of really big and angry Anacondas. About a week ago we followed in their footsteps and...