The problem with any piece of writing is that you only really convey your feelings at the time of writing. Usually this is when I’ve eaten, washed, and cranked up the Macbook under my hammock, and so I’m settled and content. But the average seven or eight out of ten morale doesn’t tell the whole [...]

Its been pointed out to me that I’ve not explained why we’ve changed the route to walk through Colombia. The reason is simple: we are nearly four months behind the original schedule, and at this time of year the forest on the Peruvian side of the Amazon is all far too flooded to walk. So [...]

1. What changes in weather have you seen in the last 20 years? Each year there is change – sometimes the seasons reverse. Winter used to start November but now it is in March. 2. How has this changed the way you live and work? Working as a logger if there is low water we [...]

The river mapping using the GPS worked well for six days and we advanced 45km in that time. From a community called Platanal we hired a Yawa guide Vicente, broke from the Atiquiari River, and headed directly East to Colombia. We took 6 days of food and knew that we would be relying heavily on [...]

This blog was dictated over satellite phone. The laptop is dead. Two days after I posted the last blog we followed fresh footprints into a logging camp. Lots of very well built men were eating breakfast and joking loudly. We were immediately given plates of spaghetti and ham and cups of sweet coffee. Loggers have [...]

If you’ve seen the map lately you’ll see that we’ve headed north of the river channel into the hills. Two kms a day was getting us down a bit and we wanted to arrive at the Atlantic Ocean this side of 2020. From Pebas we heard a rumour that there was a drugs trafficking trail [...]