by Jean-Philippe Soule

• Introduction

• Equipment Mistakes and Pain

• Wishing for Wind

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

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

• Coyotes

• Discovering Paradise

• Shark fishing: fin soup and medicine for the Orient, steaks for the Occident  –  Oct. 31 - Day 24

• Bahia de Los Angeles  –  Oct. 23-25

• October 29 - Dolphins, headwinds and ever-distant points: the approach to San Francisquito

•  Mulege - After a rough crossing and five weeks in the desert, we find the lush green of an oasis  –  Nov. 13 - Day 37

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

• Bahia Pulpito  –  Nov. 22 - Day 46

• I lost my fish  –  Nov. 23 - Day 47

• Bahia San Juanico - When the hunter becomes hunted  –  Nov. 25 - Day 49  (JP's Selection)

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

• Divine Intervention at the Dinner Table

• The Rocky Road to Honeymoon Cove: Out of Loreto  –  Nov. 29

•  Agua Verde  –  Dec. 1 - Day 55

• Agua Verde  –  Dec. 2 - Day 56

• The nomadic family

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

• Night Diving with Fishermen  –  Dec. 4 - Day 58

• Isla Coyote, a small community on a rock  –  Dec. 8 - Day 62

• Isla San Francisquito  –  Dec. 9 - Day 63

• The Rough Crossing  –  Dec. 10 - Day 64  (JP's Selection)

• 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... Become a  Native Planet member to read the full story...)

• Paradise at last! - 3/21/99

• A long paddling day - 3/23/99

• A Scary Shark Encounter  (Excerpts... Become a  Native Planet member to read the full story...)

• Kite Kayaking Central America

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

• First Impressions of Belize - Early March

• Starting Off on the Wrong Foot - Day One - March 18

• 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... Become a  Native Planet member to read the full story...)

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

• Punta Gorda: "Don’t Let the Door Hit You in the Ass on the Way Out" - May 20

• The Long Haul to Livingston Guatemala - May 21

• 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

•  Tela to La Ceiba: Electrical Storm and Armed Encounter - 8/15 to 8/19

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

• Insect Asylum

•  First Flight into La Moskitia - 9/3/99

• Palacios to Kuri, Paddling through canals and lagoons - 9/3-8/99

• Paddling up the Rio Platano into the Biosphere Reserve - 9/9-1-/99

• First week in Las Marias - 9/10-16/99
• Weiknatara, the last settlement upriver in the heart of the Platano Reserve - 9/17-23/99
• Poling a "Pipante" Dugout Canoe (story featured on Native Planet)
• Return to Las Marias - 9/24-25/99

• La Ceiba: "Portal Town" - September 3
• Palacios to Plaplaya, La Mosquitia: "First Impressions" September 4
• 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 town, Mosquito Coast: "Winding Down" - October 22
• Raista, Mosquito Coast: "Tiempo Feo" - Foul weather! - October 24
• Raista Town, Mosquito Coast: "Stewed Godzilla" - October 25
• Las Marias, Rio Platano Mosquito Coast: "Sore, Wet and Filthy" October 26
• Las Marias: "Hurricane Spoiler" - October 29

•  Bad Weather and a Raft to Leave Las Marias - 11/01/99

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

• Puerto Cortes, Honduras: "Floods, Plagues, Personal Armageddon" - November 17

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

•  La Ceiba to Trujillo: No Jokes for a Couple of April fools March 31 to April 2

• La Ceiba to Trujillo: No Jokes for a Couple of April fools March 31 to April 2

• The New Rush: Night Kayak-Surfing in Reverse - 4/06/2000 (morning)

• Sleeping at Sea or Landing in the Dark, a Tough Call! - 4/06/2000 (afternoon)

• Arriving in Palacios - 4/08/2000

• The Fear of Nicaragua

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

• Lost Equipment and Brief Review of our favorite gear

• Patuca: An Iguana Meal with the Most Hospitable Bandits - 4/12/2000

• 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
• San Jose a la Punta, Honduras:  “Herbs, Hooch. . .Healed!“ Guifiti: The Best of Garifuna Bush Medicine - 04/08/00
• Raista to Brus Laguna  “Juxtaposition of Crass and Quaint" -  04/10/00
• Out of Brus Laguna  “Man Overboard" - 04/11/00

• Introduction

• "Masochism on the Nicaraguan Coast" (5/05)

• "AK 47 Sub-machinegun Armed Robbery" (5/07)

• "Forced Paddling with a Sick Stomach" (5/11)

• Tasbapounie - "Missing out on the Sea Turtle Feast" (5/14)

• "And the Rain Began" (5/17)

• "Bluefields to Managua - Do we Have to Portage?" (5/21)

• "Dancing with Death to the rhythm of the Ocean" (5/27)

• 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)

• Playing Hide and Seek with Sea Turtles - Oct. 2000

• "Far and Away, Accident on the remote Osa Peninsula" (11/20/2000)

• "No Way Out of Paradise" (11/21/2000)

• “It Looked Good on the Map!” Northern Costa Rica (9/10/2000)

• Playa Grande, Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica “Leatherbacks and Strip Development” (September 2000)

• Ostional, Nicoya Peninsula "Pacific Waves: Deceptive Power (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

• “Landing in Kuna Yala” El Tigre island, Kuna Yala (3/10)

• “The Revolution”- El Tigre, Kuna Yala (3/11)

• “Out of this World”- Nubesibudup, Kuna Yala (3/15)

• “Watch your step in a Banana Republic“ - Puerto Armuelles, Panama (4/18/2001)

• “Bumping into Noriega’s Legacy” – Dusty Backroads, Western Panama (4/19/2001)

• "Back in Action in Panama" - Playa Cambutal, Azuero Peninsula (9/14/2001)

• No Fear: Surfing to Save Face" - Playa Venao, Azuero Peninsula (9/18/2001)

• "Fading Lights o f Candlemas" - La Candelaria" 9/21/2001)

• "'Isla Iguana' What's in a Name?" - Isla Iguana, Azuero Peninsula (9/23/2001)

• “Pastoral by Day, But by Night the City Beckons” - Nueva Gorgona, Azuero (10/02/2001)

• “Into the Canal Zone: Arrival in Panama City”, Playa Veracruz, Balboa (10/06/2001)

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

PANAMA ROUTE
Feb-April 2001 & Sept. 2001

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