Fall off the Map

08/09/2024

You win Unitedairlines you totally got me with the hidden no carry on bag detail that is only accessible after you’ve booked your flight. ✈️

06/09/2024

Tena Ecuador - Beautiful City in the Upper Amazon

Tena Ecuador is one of my favorite cities. The food, the climate, the feeling of safety and security are all better, in my opinion, than other cities in Ecua...

04/09/2024

https://youtu.be/b3Fuy2sgMHU

I'm leaving Ecuador, and plan on selling two of my properties, but I am keeping my farm in the mountains outside of Quito and my farm in the Amazon. I'm not ...

02/09/2024

https://youtu.be/CfQN0Bte8CA?si=rSjHOHS-cAsLJ0H_

Getting a mouthful of dental work done on the cheap here in Quito Ecuador before I fly back to the US. Watch to the end if you want to see me getting cavitie...

26/08/2024

https://youtu.be/pWEoiPBGK30?si=lVgm1xeOZEZZbh8q

Leaving Ecuador - Returning to the U.S.

10/08/2024

No matter how big you imagine the world to be, it always surprises. The world is always bigger than we imagine.

to the new song OTYKEN - PHENOMENON on all digital platforms:- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/63tficClWA0HEI8bnlbA2l- Appl...

09/08/2024

¡Chuta! Locked myself out of the house on the farm in Ecuador.

Locked myself out of the house on the farm in Ecuador. Only solution was to break into my own house.

08/08/2024

Thursday night vibes:

who gonna help me BURY MY MONEY?!?!? 🗣️ after you get done SLAMMING that like button. I MEAN DEMOLISH IT. after you're done doing that, then it's time to SN...

28/06/2024

He just keeps getting better. I imagine this is the sound of the train going off the rails, the sound of everything ending in a cacophony. Music to watch the world end.

13/06/2024

https://youtu.be/Fuz560Lhd0Y?si=LeOU-JcjKNVa4KkX

Visiting a Permaculture Project in the Jungle, Yachana Foundation deep in the Ecuadorian Amazon on the Napo River.Yachana on Facebook: https://www.facebook.c...

29/05/2024

Ruta Escondida - Ecuador Moto Vlog on a Honda Xr190L
https://youtu.be/TUQ6Eh-VM5Q

29/05/2024

Riding the Ruta Escondida on a Honda Xr190L ridimg from my farm to Puellaro, Perucho, and up into the high country of the Andes Mountains in Ecuador just out...

22/05/2024

Anyone new to or considering moving to Ecuador should watch this. GM Ace has a great channel and provides honest insights into living here.

The one part of Latin American culture that no one talks about which is known as "viveza criolla".

22/05/2024

Giant Passionfruit, the heartiest most prolific and beautiful of the passionfruit

Giant passionfruit, passiflora quadrangularis, giant granadilla, barbadine, grenadine, giant tumbo or badea, is a species of plant in the family Passiflorace...

21/04/2024

Rare Seed Exchange in Quito Ecuador - trading rare ancestral seeds in the Andes Mountains

Seed Exchange, exactly what it sounds like, trading my rocoto peppers, mountain papaya, and banana passionfruit for chilean wine cocos, poroton, black corn, ...

20/04/2024

https://youtube.com/shorts/P_hq59EjdDo?si=VcRDEXBmeIvHVkfQ

Revised budget for the chicken coop. After discussing it t wit. My neighbor he strongly encouraged me to add some sort of metal protection around the perimet...

11/04/2024

https://youtube.com/shorts/b_7M2ruO0Lk?si=nqZprZ-BpAPxEcvJ

Now I know I’ve arrived, I’m actually becoming the sort of resourceful farmer I always wanted to be. It’s a simple thing, but what’s important to me is the f...

11/04/2024

I am really starting to enjoy teaching local electricians here in Ecuador how to do things like an American electrician. I just got off the phone with a great student (local electrician) in Mompiche working on Shaun’s project. It is a fun challenge to explain to someone how to use a multimeter to test the entire electrical system for unwanted ground/neutral connections in the unique accent of the Ecuadorian north coast. I also definitely need to improve my Spanish vocabulary so I don’t have to do linguistic gymnastics to explain things with my limited vocabulary.

10/04/2024

If I had 1.5 million dollars - follow up visit to the el Molino Avocado Farm

The owner of Hacienda el Molino in San Jose de Minas Ecuador visited my farm to help diagnose some of the diseases attacking my trees. Marco also surprised m...

08/04/2024

Attack on the Mexican Embassy - Ecuador Arrests ex Vice President Glass

Ecuadorian police just raided the Mexican embassy to arrest former Vice president Glass, violating the Vienna Convention. This assault on the Mexican embassy...

29/03/2024

https://youtube.com/shorts/v4pan_LZaSk?si=_xLHHGyPiJJSZr2d

Big projects happening on the farm. Lots of earthwork building roads and paths, leveling the building site in preparation for building a bodega and motorcycl...

26/03/2024

https://youtu.be/fd2K4VKE-GA?si=uZ7k7aGhsK_K51qu

Avocado tour at Hacienda el Molino in the town of San Jose de Minas about one hour from Quito Ecuador. Hacienda el Molino is located here in Google maps: htt...

24/03/2024

Grace and I just visited Hacienda El Molino in San Jose de Minas for a tour of their avocado farm. It was spectacular. I was amazed at how healthy and productive their trees are and learned far more than I expected to from Marcos, the avocado expert. I got to ask Marcos a million questions, and make a video about the place (which I hope to upload in a couple days). Marcos offered to visit my farm to help me diagnose and treat some of the problems with my trees. It was definitely more than worth the $10 for the tour. I feel like I just went to avocado school. https://www.facebook.com/share/iJWSoLUBxkHvLaQo/?mibextid=ox5AEW

EL MOLINO SAN JOSE DE MINAS UN LUGAR ACOGEDOR DONDE PODRÁS DISFRUTAR DE HERMOSOS PAISAJES , GRANDES

13/03/2024

DYI water filter for tilapia pond

10/03/2024

Yellow Ladybug in the Park in Quito Ecuador

Unusual ladybug landed on me and explored while I waited in a park in Quito. I’ve never seen a yellow ladybug before.

02/03/2024

Prices in Ecuador, a cost of living video

GM Ace’s detailed video on the topic: https://youtu.be/l01W_R96Qko?si=8s4bE6nM1kxovePA My cost of living in ecuador video is long overdue. There are more com...

02/03/2024

One of the difficult things about owning a little farm in the mountains of Ecuador is the sun. Even on cloudy days I can’t work iutside in the middle of the day. When I do I burn, and not even my hat and shirt block enough sunlight, I burn right through my shirt. My solution is to work for a few hours at sunrise and sunset. I’m out here running my weedwacker until it’s too dark to see making use of every minute I can safely work.

The last few days I’ve gotten a lot done, catching up on weeding, cutting grass, creating new compost piles, and planting parsley, beets, chard, rocoto peppers, grape vines, a lemon tree, and a bunch more fava beans. I also planted two weeping willows along the fence line that I hope to train to form a living fence.

19/02/2024

Expat vs Immigrant vs Migrant vs Digital Nomad - a Gringo’s Opinion.

Expat, immigrant, migrant, digital nomad... What do these terms mean, are they real, are they legitimate? Is an expat just a pretentious immigrant? These are...

17/02/2024

Mompichi Ecuador During the Crisis - Esmeraldas Province is Considered the Most Dangerous Area. Edit: Mompiche not Mompichi. Thanks to those that corrected me.

We ignored all the travel warnings and drove to Mompichi in the Esmersaldes province on the NW coast of Ecuador. Our experience was safe and contradicts most...

03/02/2024

Early Morning Tilapia Therapy- Watching the Fish and Listening to the Birds on the Farm in Ecuador

Watching the fish do their thing this morning. The tilapia pond is still a work in progress. It’s been a dry year in the Andes Mountains of Ecuador so the po...