Originally posted on TheAdventuresOfDr:
Back to Puerto Escondido. Back to electricity, showers, flushing toilets, and contact with the outside world.  It was bittersweet to be in Puerto,  both good and bad to be back in the urbanized beach town. But I believe that lessons learned from living with surf bums for nine days will stick with us.  Surfers tend to have a good…

Originally posted on TheAdventuresOfDr:
I feel that a short preface prior to this post is necessary, although it has nothing to do with the actual post itself.  Hence the following. I am astonished and completely floored by the attention that my last post received.  I never anticipated, although it has always been a goal for…

Originally posted on TheAdventuresOfDr:
The feeling of touching down onto Mexican asphalt could have best been described as pure and complete nervousness. Inside our luggage was 70 Cuban cigars while the legal duty free limit was 25 per person. This isn’t really an issue except for the fact that we had purchased them directly from…

Originally posted on TheAdventuresOfDr:
Bus rides between destinations in the Andes carry an almost certain guarantee to have some of the most dramatic landscapes you’ll ever see.  After leaving Riobamba we enjoyed another long encounter with Chimborazo, specifically the southern face of the dormant volcano. I could easily get swept up into a myriad of…