Fast Fred's March 2026 News Update

What's Been Up? Where Have You Been?

I took a trip to Tena for over a week to visit the jungle and rivers. There's going to be more information about what I discovered good and bad soon. However, I am currently involved in a major update of my website and primary YouTube channels. This project is likely to take a couple more months. I have updated the Ocoee Guidebook for private boaters and guide trainees. The guidebook is now better organized with great depth of coverage of each rapid. I have begun cleaning up the travel pages but there's a lot of mileage to be covered there from Mexico to Patagonia.

To make the project more fun and trackable I am working from Mexico to Patagonia. I have traveled a large portion of the Panamerican Highway in Latin America. The adventure begins in Mexico City aka CDMX then onward to Puebla. My trip though Mexico from CDMX to the Guatemala border took 40 days. I am hopeful I can clean up the Mexico content a bit quicker than that.

After months there seems to be some progress towards rebuilding my home. I have remitted a payment and now await an official final decision from the state. I hope to get the final decision and contract by mid-March. While waiting on this decision I went back to my webpage about Helene and expanded it with more detail and multimedia.

I have been eating well and enjoying the perpetual spring in the mountains of Ecuador. I have little to no control over the timeline to rebuild. So I am occupying myself on useful projects and local culture. The food is fantastic and affordable. I can eat filet mignon for less than the cost of a cheap bad steak back home. The craft beer scene is becoming stronger everyday here in Ecuador.

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