My name is Ira and welcome to my blog that documents the challenge, adventure and revelation I experience swimming in the open sea around Vancouver, BC. Saturday, April 18, 2015. However, this Spring the water is polluted with toxic bunker fuel and no one is allowed to swim there. However, I have bigger question.

Thursday, February 21, 2013. To heighten concern, the country had recently been through a major political crisis in 2009. This put the country in a precarious and somewhat dysfunctional state at the worst possible timing as the US recesion deepend and remittances being sent from Hondurans working abroad were greatly reduced. Plastic and other garbage a flame off the highway in Omoa.

Thursday, January 24, 2013. I left the terminal and approached the taxi stop where two taxi drivers sat. They offered an opposing opinion from the worker I had just chatted with and assured me the ride was perfectly safe. Fig tree in Acapulco zocalo. After the hill I restocked my water, bought some dinner food and hit a flat superhighway with little traffic clear put of town. I survived Acapulco! I measured the trees girth over i.

Random notes and essays from the bicycle tour. Wednesday, February 20, 2013. Traveling developing nations for invaluable perspectives. With only one life to live I am determined to make the most of it. For the means two pursuing fulfilling and enjoyable experiences as well as living sustainably and leaving a positive legacy on the Earth. Somehow those two objectives combine very well in bicycle travel. Saturday, November 10, 2012. Hospitality for us cyclists with a little help from technology.