by Jean-Philippe Soule

• Introduction

• Wishing for Wind

• Let the storm go by  –  Oct. 16 - Day 9

• JP’s terrible launch, Luke’s crash-landing

• Amidst Thousands of Thoughts, a Few on Life - October 28

• The second day out of Mulege  –  Nov. 21 - Day 45

• Bahia Pulpito  –  Nov. 22 - Day 46

• I lost my fish  –  Nov. 23 - Day 47

• Queasy on the High Seas: Out of Mulege and into the Surf

• The nomadic family

• Pta Botella, the red Mountain  –  Dec. 3 - Day 57

• Espiritu Santo  –  Dec. 11 - Day 65

• The Last Crossing  –  Dec. 12 - Day 66

• La Paz  –  Dec. 13 - Day 67

• Snakeman and the Ancient Mayan Medicine  (Excerpts... Read the full story in the coming book)

• Paradise at last! - 3/21/99

• A Scary Shark Encounter  (Excerpts... Read the full story in the coming book)

• Kite Kayaking Central America

• Surviving on a Tropical island: Tropical Survival and Coconut Tree Climbing & Opening Conch

• Day 2 and 3 - March 19, 20

• Hopkins: A Garifuna Village in Transition - Week 3 End of March, Early April

•  Placencia, Blue Creek and Glover's reef - Mid-April

•  Placencia  to Punta Gorda - 5/18 to 5/20

  • 5/17/99 - False Departure

  • 5/18/99 - Monkey River Lodge, Unexpected Luxury

  • 5/19/99 - Mangrove Nightmare, Heat, Dehydration and Exhaustion

  • 5/20/99 - A Rest Day in Punta Gorda

• Belize to Guatemala: Paddling on the moon with a sick stomach - 5/21/99

• When Nature Calls in Foreign Lands - Rated R !  (Excerpts... Read the full story in the coming book)

• Adventure Moments (cave and earache) - May 14, 1999 

• Introduction

• Sambo Creek, Honduras "Baila Conmigo" Garifuna Festival Dancing - June 26
• Cut Throats Who Can Cook: A Few Weeks on Utila Bay Island - July 1999

• Omoa to La Ceiba: "Bug Spray, Advil and a Rain Fly, The Essentials" - August 21

• Insect Asylum

•  First week in Las Marias - 9/10-16/99

• Poling a "Pipante" Dugout Canoe (story featured on Native Planet)
• Return to Las Marias - 9/24-25/99

• La Ceiba: "Portal Town" - September 3
• Raista, Mosquito Coast: "Details, The Nitty Gritty of the Rio Platano Trip" - September 8
• Las Marias: "Expectations Gone Awry" - September 12
• Weiknatara Farm, Las Marias: "Down from Big Man" - September 24
• Las Marias to Raista: "45, 44, 43, Only 42 More Miles to Go. . ." - September 27
• La Ceiba: "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" - September 28

• Raista, Mosquito Coast: "Tiempo Feo" - Foul weather! - October 24
• Raista Town, Mosquito Coast: "Stewed Godzilla" - October 25

•  Malaria, Insights on the Traveler's Plague  (Excerpts... Become a  Native Planet member to read the full story...)

• The Biggest Challenge — Documenting the CASKE 2000 Expedition from Central America (Winter Break - December 99)  (story featured on Native Planet)

•  Arriving in Palacios - 4/08/2000

• A Hell of a Day to Escape from Hell ! - 4/11/2000

• Lost Equipment and Brief Review of our favorite gear

• From Patuca to Puerto Lempira - 4/13 - 4/15/2000

• La Ceiba, Honduras. . “What’s all this paddling business all about anyway?" - 03/30/00
• A Lesson in History
• Limon, Honduras  “Riding El Norte" 04/05/00
• Raista to Brus Laguna  “Juxtaposition of Crass and Quaint" -  04/10/00
• Out of Brus Laguna  “Man Overboard" - 04/11/00

• Introduction

• Pto. Lempira to Nicaragua Border "Out of Honduras"(5/02)

• Benk to Nicaraguan Border "Point of No Return" (5/04)

• Border to Sandy Bay "Sacrificing Comfort for Stealth" (5/05)

• Sandy Bay "Where do you get your water?" (5/06)

• Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua “Little Hotel of Horrors” (5/08)

• Pto. Cabezas, Nicaragua  “Oddities at Arrival, Celebs Upon Departure” (5/10)

• Prinzapolka  “And Jesus said, ‘one of you will betray me’” (5/12)

• Bluefields  “Malaria Delirium” (5/17)

• Onward to Costa Rica Border “’Round the Long Route to Safety, Almost” (5/23)

• Cannonball Run to Costa Rica (August 2000)

• (September 2000)

• Pacific Waves: Deceptive Power - Ostional, Nicoya Peninsula (October 2000)

• Manuel Antonio National Park, Quepos "Beauty on a Budget"

• Tikal, the Ancient Mayan City of Guatemala - May 99  (story featured on Native Planet)

• Guatemala: A Mixture of Ethnic Groups, Latin Music and Colors - March 2000

• From Tikal to the Altiplano: Ancient and Modern Mayan Cultures in Guatemala - December 2000  (story featured on Native Planet)

• Introduction

• A Foot in the Door (2001)   (story featured on Native Planet)

PANAMA ROUTE
Feb-April 2001 & Sept. 2001

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