Articles tagged with 'food'

Daniele and Thomas climbed to the top of the volcano. It was a 640 meter trek straight up the mountainside along an almost vertical rut that the locals had assured was the official trail. They came back sweat-soaked, muddied, scuffed and bruised, but grinning at their accomplishment. “It’s amazing.” They reported. “You look down and you see everything.”

It's hard to leave Banda Naira (The Nutmeg Island) as we've had such a wonderful time here but, it's time to carry on to the west and make progress toward our end-of-season goal of arriving in Langkawi, Malaysia. Indonesia is a huge country and the distances much greater than you think. The passage to our next stop-over is about 450nm and we'll take a couple of days to get there. Part...

Off to new places on our way (eventually) to Komodo and Bali. For now we went with the wind and did a nice overnight (30 hour) passage to the Banda Islands where we'll spend a few days relaxing (of course!) and checking out the local scene. Banderia is the island where the spice Nutmeg came from originally (the only place in the world). Other locations that have it now took original...

From the Mediterranean Sea , the Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean we've enjoyed all sorts of fish, clams, oysters, mussels, scallops, lobsters and shrimp. This photo gallery contains photos of some of what we've harvested from the oceans while on the first half of our world circumnavigation.

It's cold. Wind buffets from all sides and the floor shifts with the jerking motion of a moving train. I zip my jacket up to my chin. It's loud too and smokey, as there are no windows, just large long slots that begin at waist height, oh, and no seats either inside this rolling open-air steel box they call the observation car. But mostly, at this moment, what I'm observing are the...

It was at around four this morning that the Tsunami warnings went off here in Tonga. Apparently this region of the Pacific received a meter high wave courtesy of the Chilean earth quake. For us here aboard Feelin' Good it was thankfully a non-event. Art has informed me that I slept through the whole thing, so I have no recollection of the tsunami's arrival. I will have no exciting...

François, weathered and leathered, greets us warmly as if he has known us for years even though we are just now meeting for the very first time. His broad smile reveals a few missing teeth, but his eyes are vibrant, alert, framed by decades spent toiling under a tropical sun. He is anxious to show us his life's work, his family's vanilla farm is his passion; he is a man possessed and...

It's dark now, the sun has once again been swallowed by our planet's horizon, but as is the normal circumstance, its appearance and character, the play of light, the arrangement of clouds, the way the sun hung whole just above the sea momentarily before being magnified brilliantly by the earth's atmosphere making it look momentarily like a giant squashed lemon, and it was in fact...