After a rough bus ride and a feisty barter with the flat deck taxi driver ( he wanted to charge $50 to Santa Catalina) due to no more Buses that night. We eventually settled on $35 though Allie wasn’t totally happy with that. With the Back fully loaded with TRAK Folding kayaks and bags we […]
Tag Archives: World Wild Adventure
Tracking Down Our Second TRAK Kayak
Jan 11th – 13th The rest of our time in the city was spent taxi-ing back and forth between old town and downtown, barely taking any real deep breaths of clean air (cough hack cough!), finding one tropical park for a moment of respite, taking cold showers in the land of one-tap showers, (I […]
Allies Birthday Night in Panama City
Jan 10th 2012 My first sight of the city in daylight…palm trees, heat like an oven, wild erratic driving, a skyline of high rises (mostly all residential rather than commercial), seaside promenade looking out at fishing boats, a cruise ship or two, and surprisingly clean streets and surroundings….welcome to Panama City! We spend our first […]
Worlds Colliding in Panama
Jan 9th -10th 2012 Here is the first blog post, it outlines our first day in Panama city and the journeys Allie and I took the day before we meet in Panama City’s Tocumen International Airport to begin our 7 week adventure in Panama. Allie’s travel day began before mine so her story starts the […]
The Panama Adventure Begins
Here is a little video to bring you into the Adventure Allie and I are having in Panama. stay tuned for more written, visual and audio adventure logs. -J-
PANAMA 2012
Filming for upcoming episodes of the “TRAK Files” (Sponsored by TRAK Performance Folding Kayaks) that I am working on will be priority, along with a couple of short films on the country and our adventures. Keep up with our adventures while we greet new days with yoga, learn to surf on warm friendly beaches, meet […]
Just Released; Trak Files Episode 1 !
After over a year of filming, and 2 months of editing episode 1 of the TRAK Files is finally released! 7 months more of filming and editing to come too fully produce the entire series!. The TRAK Files will follow Jaime Sharp along with the TRAK folding kayak as they explore the world of kayaking, […]
Swimming Eagle
Here are some great pics and a bit of great footage from a recent Kayak trip I was on in Desolation Sound, BC, Canada. Such a beautiful and warm area of the Pacific Northwest to paddle, you can even swim naked in the water for over an hour, yes it is that warm! Mighty mountains […]
A Little Bit of North West Australia
Sitting yet again on a plane, I am surrounded by people speaking in a very familiar fashion; yet with a slightly different stress on nouns and hint of raised tone at the end of words. I look from the window and the of Western Australia lies below me; arid, brown and ongoing. I am […]
THE END (for now)
After arriving in wellington, Leona and I loaded my boat on her car with inflatable roof racks loaned to us by Fergs kayaks and headed to her place. I spent the next 5 days enjoying wellington area and catching up with old friends and family. The storm finally came the next morning after I arrived […]