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Setting the Stage for Scuba Diving in Raja Ampat, Indonesia

Written By Topics: Cool Places, Scuba Diving
diving in Raja Ampat, Indonesia

Diving Raja Ampat is a mixture of Dr. Seuss and Disney, the unthinkable meets the unreal.  It has been described as “ultramarine” and I would be inclined to agree. The species list reads like a who’s who of the underwater world, everything from wobegongs to flasher wrasse to giant mantas.  It truly is the center [...]

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Ujung Pandang (Makassar) Welcome To Indonesia

Written By Topics: Cool Places, Scuba Diving

There is a childlike excitement arriving at a new place, no matter what the circumstances.  My expectation of arriving in Indonesia on a beautiful clear afternoon at 3:30pm, checking into the hotel and strolling the promenade was already replaced by the reality of a late flight and a 30 minute drive into town through heavy [...]

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Eat, Dive, Love….and Pray the Flights are on Time.

Written By Topics: Life On & Off the Road, Practical Travel Strategies

*Our latest adventure is taking us throughout eastern Indonesia diving from both a land based resort (www.misoolecoresort.com) and live aboard and finally to Bali to experience the culture, the art and the beauty of that magical place.  Join us as we blog our way through the Mecca of the diving world for the next 30 [...]

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Stay Safe by Staying Educated on Poisonous Marine Life

Written By Topics: Conservation, Scuba Diving
poisonous marine life

Complacency is Easy When we travel and dive all over the world without incident, we tend towards complacency.  After awhile we don’t think emergencies are going to happen.  I learned yesterday how important it is to stay sharp and educated.  Because “sharp” is what I found. After 7500 scuba dives and 24 years as a [...]

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Saba SCUBA diving adventure, Day 1

Written By Topics: Cool Places, Scuba Diving
SCUBA diving Saba

Saba, What a cool place Its 8:22AM and I’m already back from the first airport run – arrival and departure days are always some of the busiest days.  I like to greet everyone at the airport because there is always this slight bit of apprehension when you arrive in a strange place for the first [...]

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What a Schlep! Arrival at Advanced Base Camp Cho Oyu

Written By Topics: Cool Places, Mountain Climbing

This is the final part of my four part story on getting from Kathmandu to Advanced Base Camp at Cho Oyu.  Please follow the links to read the first three parts of this voyage! Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Chinese Base Camp We were on the road to Chinese base camp.  After now adventuring [...]

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What A Schlep! Getting to Tibet Part 3

Written By Topics: Cool Places, Mountain Climbing

This is part 3 in a series of articles I wrote on the experience of getting from Kathmandu to Advanced Base Camp of the mountain Cho Oyu in Southern Tibet.  Climbing the mountain was the objective of course, but the story of the journey to the base of the mountain reminds us to enjoy the [...]

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What a Schlep- Getting to Tibet Part 2

Written By Topics: Cool Places, Mountain Climbing
climbing in Tibet

Getting There is Half the Fun, Part 2 (To see how we got this far, read part one) My passport was long gone.  I had given it to some Nepalese man who was going to arrange the border crossing.  I sure hope he came back. We were sprawled out in a grimy restaurant back room [...]

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Whale Poop – Something of Interest for Your Wednesday

Written By Topics: Conservation, Scuba Diving

Whale Poop Pumps Up Ocean Health Fortunately I have no photo to go with this post!  This comes to me today through Science daily.  Quite interesting…. ScienceDaily (Oct. 11, 2010) — Whale feces — should you be forced to consider such matters — probably conjures images of, well, whale-scale hunks of crud, heavy lumps that [...]

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Talk About a Schlep!!

Written By Topics: Adventure Couple Favs

Getting There is Half the Fun – Part 1 Last year, I decided to go to Nepal and Tibet to join my husband’s climbing team to summit Cho Oyu, the 6th highest peak in the world.  And while the story of climbing the mountain is amazing, what’s just as amazing is the story of simply [...]

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