Featured on Trail to Peak Iceland’sotherworldly landscape will leave you awestruck and inspired. From the moment you step off of the plane, you’ll feel as if you had just landed on the moon. Just looking out the plane window at the celestial landscape below may even make you forget that you’re arriving in the world’s […]

Featured on The Beach Break Surf Camp Blog  If you’ve ever surfed or if you’ve ever set foot in a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu gym, you have failed before. Undoubtedly, you have gotten caught inside during a large swell, you’ve been slammed to the matt with incredible force, you’ve paddled out without catching a single wave, and […]

Featured on the Beach Break Surf Camp Blog  As my time in Panama comes to an end, I am doing my best to get in the water as much as possible. This morning, I thought that might require some extra motivation. When I first rolled out of bed and opened my door to check the […]

Featured on the Beach Break Surf Camp Blog      I woke this morning to the sound of rain trickling down on the roof above me. I slowly rolled out of bed and immediately opened my door to check the surf. As I stood on the lawn adjacent to the pool and looked out to […]

Featured on the Beach Break Surf Camp Blog The last few mornings have been the perfect warm-up for the incoming swell. Despite a few late nights, wandering up and down the beach, visiting the neighboring bars at Selina and Las Barcas, glassy, offshore conditions at 2-3 feet have made each 6 am wake up well […]

Featured on the Beach Break Surf Camp Blog   Prior to my trip to Panama, I had very little knowledge about Jiu-jitsu. All I really knew was that it involved a lot of grappling and that interesting people, like the late Anthony Bourdain and surf champ Kelly Slater, were devout practitioners. Needless to say, I […]

Featured on Beach Break Surf Camp Blog  For the past half-decade or so, I have made surf travel a regular part of my life. Like many other surfers, what started with a single trip has snowballed into a career, which now consists of running a study abroad company and travel writing. With the exception of […]

Featured on The Inertia  I’ve made surf travel a regular part of my life over the past five years. Like many other surfers, what started with a single trip has snowballed into a career, which now consists of running a study abroad company and travel writing. With the exception of a few far-flung corners of the globe, I thought […]

Featured on The Inertia  Today, there are over 23 million surfers worldwide. That population spans elite professionals, diehard beach bums, weekend warriors, and resort vacationers. International travel has never been easier; travelers are able to reach once near mythic locations in a matter of hours. Additionally, different forms of surfing have emerged in recent years, from stand […]

Featured on BootsnAll  As soon as we touched down on the tarmac, I hurriedly unfastened my seatbelt and jolted into the aisle. I was beyond eager to get off the plane. My college roommate, William, and I had just flown from LA to Panama City. We were connecting to Havana in 20 minutes and had no […]