When the bottom line is the bottom line we can’t really be surprised when corners are cut and people are screwing each other over. In fairness, I suppose that we’d all prefer it if you went about enhancing your bottom line in a mannerly way… More…
THE BIG PICTURE
Do you think that any one the cells in our body has the vaguest idea of what it is they’re a part of? I think that the same can probably be said about us. More…
INJURY REPORT
We spent a couple of really nice, cool nights in a large pine forest just a few miles outside of Guadalajara. Then we moved to this nearby water park for a few more days. More…
UPCOUNTRY
With only two months left on our Visas we decided it was time to head into the high country. First stop… Guadalajara, where we found this guy who’d literally melted into his couch. Reminds me of some of my friends after a Sunday of watching American football.
MAYBE… MAYBE NOT
We’re born. We live. We die. That’s pretty much all that we can really agree upon about life. And… maybe that’s because… More…
S L O WVERLANDING
COULDN’T HAVE SAID IT BETTER MYSELF
It’s been more than two weeks since we stumbled upon Lo De Marcos. A long time to most who “overland” travel. But… we do this a lot… staying in places for a week or two… or three… ish. More…
KIDS AND DOGS
About twenty clicks south of Chacala lies Lo De Marcos. Another incredibly beautiful, peaceful, authentic, Mexican beach town on the Riviera Nyarit. More…
BEACH LIFE
Beach life in Chacala has been berry berry gooooooood to us. More…
DRAGONS AND JELLYFISH
Kaila got hit by a jellyfish the other day. It left her with a nice little parting gift of a foot long welt. So today when we were walking the beach and she saw what she thought to be a jellyfish eating these little blue guys… well, she naturally wanted to intervene on their behalf.
But I was reminded of a saying… “Let me help you or you will drown said the monkey to the fish as he put him high in a tree.” I suggested that we put the scene in a bowl and just watch for awhile. We could always intervene if she was right. And… these little dudes promptly went after the jellies like nobodies business. Kaila cheered them on.
Curious, the kids looked em up. The jellyfish that you see here are the infamous Portuguese Man O’ War. And the little blue dudes are officially known as Glaucus Atlanticus… or the blue dragon nudibranch (who comes up with these names?). A type of sea slug that hunts the Man O’ War. But before you get too happy… let me tell you the rest of the story. Apparently this little guy is not only immune to jellyfish toxins… it stores them up to deliver it’s own much more painful and poisonous bite to it’s predators. Including the occasional human.
Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
And that concludes todays lesson on marine biology.
DISCOVERY AND THE DONALD
Stumbling across a place like Chacala… so cool, but entirely unknown to me and our crew, got me to thinking about real explorers like Tasman and Cook. Wondering what it felt like when they stumbled across spots like Fiji, and Hawaii. Like us, they obviously didn’t discover the place… there were already people there. More…
