After being separated from our trusty touring bikes for a couple of months, we decided to bring them down to Portland for some surgery. We decided that we wanted to convert our bikes into Xtracycles. Yeah, I know what you’re thinking—you already have bikes capable of hauling a bunch of stuff, why do you need […]
Posted by Matthew on August 21st, 2008 | Filed under: General | No Comments »
OK, Seattle isn’t exactly the same as when we left. But a lot of things are, including the Summer Solstice Parade at the annual Fremont Fair—as evidenced by the picture above. In any case, we made it home safe, albeit late due to delays on both of our flights. It has been great getting to […]
Posted by Matthew on June 22nd, 2008 | Filed under: General | No Comments »
Since we recently camped outside one of these salmon farming facilities in Chile, I thought I’d pass on this NY Times article about a virus that is devastating the salmon stocks down here. I know this seems impossible, but they think that the fact that the salmon pens are too crowded and too close together […]
Posted by Matthew on March 27th, 2008 | Filed under: General, Chile | No Comments »
One thing that you can’t help but notice about Latin America is the overabundance of plastic shopping bags. Not only at the supermarket—where the checkers refuse to put more than three items in a single bag—but covering the entire landscape as well. Even this writer from the NY Times describing Los Glaciares National Park in […]
Posted by Matthew on February 5th, 2008 | Filed under: General | 2 Comments »
I suppose I should also note that on November 10, 2007, Cindy and I became aunt and uncle to this little guy:
Braden Christopher Fisher is his name, and he’s surely the only kid on his block wearing booties from Guatemala (guess who sent him those!). We’re looking forward to making his acquaintance when we return.
Posted by Matthew on December 31st, 2007 | Filed under: General | 1 Comment »
We got back from our Salar de Uyuni trip a couple of days ago (it was great—more on that later), and we’re hanging out in Uyuni for a few days while Cindy recovers from a small illness. So with nothing else to do but hang out, I decided to write up a review of our […]
Posted by Matthew on December 9th, 2007 | Filed under: General, Bolivia | 1 Comment »
Since the War on Drugs in the US very clearly involves a lot of the countries we’ve traveled through, I thought I’d post this Rolling Stone piece, which details the history of the War on Drugs, calling itself “an anatomy of a failure”. Seems about right to me…
Posted by Matthew on December 4th, 2007 | Filed under: General | No Comments »
Just ran across this NY Times article talking about the bike culture and industry springing up in Portland. Maybe there will be a place in it for us when we return? Or maybe we can steal some ideas and bring them to Seattle…
Posted by Matthew on November 6th, 2007 | Filed under: General | No Comments »
Finally, the photos have arrived! Go check them out in the photo gallery.
Posted by Matthew on October 15th, 2007 | Filed under: General, Costa Rica | 5 Comments »
The whole time we’ve been in Ecuador, we’ve been seeing political advertisements for an upcoming election, which just occurred on 30 Sept. We weren’t really sure what it was about until we saw this article at CNN.com. It is an election to create a Constitutional Assembly to create a new constitution for Ecuador. Apparently, it […]
Posted by Matthew on October 3rd, 2007 | Filed under: General, Ecuador | 1 Comment »