by Dana | Jan 18, 2022 | PNW hiking, recipes, road trip
One-minute road-trip video, a bit grainy from my phone cam.We’re still limbo-ing along in transitionville. Despite spending summer in Florida at a time when most sane folks flee and arriving back in the Pacific Northwest in the wintertime when we last fled... by GWTAdmin | Jul 12, 2016 | conch, cooking disasters, cooking shellfish, cruiser life, Fiji culture, Fiji food, Fiji sevusevu and kava, ota, recipes
Woman selling ota at Fiji’s Savusavu market. It’s the tall, leaf-wrapped bunches.Ota… a beautiful, ferny Fijian green. In Suva’s bustling central market, it was an everyday item, but in Savusavu, ota’s available only on... by GWTAdmin | Jun 3, 2016 | Fiji culture, Fiji food, moca "spinach" recipe, recipes, South Pacific Cruising destinations, Suva Central Produce Market, Suva FIJI
Flower ladies, Suva Central Market. Unlike in Polynesia, no Fijian fragrant leis, nor fresh flowers for the hair were available, only flower arrangements.Wandering Suva’s immense produce market is a wonderful albeit a bit overwhelming experience.... by GWTAdmin | Feb 7, 2016 | new zealand agriculture, new zealand culture, new zealand economy, new zealand roas trip, recipes
This flock of sheep blocked the road on our New Zealand road trip.Is New Zealand sheepish?While New Zealand does indeed claim more sheep than human residence (over 6 sheep for every one person) , with ~30 million of the former, 4.5 million the latter. Bovines also... by GWTAdmin | Sep 5, 2015 | gluten free provisioning, local food, Pago Pago American Samoa, recipes
Taro leaves at Pago Pago’s Fagatogo Square, American Samoa.Walking past the Fagatogo market – where locals sell their produce — massive bundles of huge green leaves caught my eye. Were they taro or banana leaves? Taro. “What do you use... by GWTAdmin | Aug 28, 2015 | boat maintenance and repair, galapagos, insect infestations aboard, recipes, sailing South Pacific, suwarrow cook islands
Garbanzos from Galapagos. The hole marks the spotwhere a bug bore in.The Isabela Galapagos inspector spent a lot of time shaking his head over our pre-Galapagos bug-bombing “self-inspection” and explanation. The norm is to get a professionally applied...