Cognitively, we knew that at some point on this trip we would have to deal with some real rain, but now that we are actually dealing with it, we are reminded of just how luxurious the dry weather we’ve encountered on most of this trip is. We are now in Panama, and have caught in a low pressure system that spans the majority of the Caribbean side of Costa Rica and Panama. Our first night in Costa Rica we paid for a room in a hotel, enjoying the opportunity to make veggie sandwiches and get a shower after a long READ MORE
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Back in the boat in Taos, NM
While we were hardly ready to put away our skis, Mark and I were excited to hop in the kayaks for a brief break from the snow and make it back down to Taos for some boating. We met our friend Sam for two days of kayaking on the Rio Grande. While Sam had made dozens of run down the Racecourse in the past few seasons (a popular stretch of class III whitewater near Pilar, NM), Mark and I hadn’t been on the Rio Grande in two years. When we had last been there, we were just learning to kayak READ MORE