Photo: Spider Friend?

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I wish I had thought to put something next to this eight legged friend for perspective before I took his picture. Then again, I can’t believe we took the picture, I was busy completely freaking out. This little friend was on the wall of our “cabin” in Plaplaya, Honduras, on the mosquito coast…. a few [...]

Flashback: Honduras

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Sometimes it’s about the journey not the destination.  Bumping around in the back of an overloaded Toyota pick up truck on our way into “the heart of darkness” was not my idea of fun. Maybe that’s a bit dramatic, but I couldn’t get Conrad’s book out of my head.  We were going into the heart [...]

Photo Tuesday: Gorilla Baby

Photo Tuesday: Gorilla Baby

After surviving the terrifying (at least for me) charge of the male mountain gorilla, we settled into a peaceful detante with them in a large clearing.  Surrounded by dense jungle foliage, it was hard to see the gorillas in the shadows.  I was uneasy being so exposed until I saw this mother and her baby [...]

Photo Tuesday: Coke in the Jungle

Photo Tuesday: Coke in the Jungle

Six hours in the back of a pick up truck along the beach on the Mosquito Coast of Honduras brought us to a landing where we could take a dug out canoe to plaplaya for the night before continuing our journey upstream into La Mosquitia.  As our “captain” loaded the canoe with our belongings and cargo [...]