*Featured on Witch’s Rock Surf Camp Blog  The wheels made contact with the tarmac and the entire aircraft shook. I looked over at my dad in the seat next to me as he jolted awake. We just touched down in Liberia, Costa Rica. We were on a surf trip together, heading to Witch’s Rock Surf […]

*Featured on The Inertia “Go, go, go!” Diogo yelled from somewhere behind the lineup. I put my head down and dug deep into the water with every paddle. I started to feel the familiar lift of the wave underneath and I suddenly noticed for the first time just how big this thing was. My heart sank. I slid […]

Featured on The Inertia  It was barely six in the morning. The sun had just begun to peek over the desert mountaintops to the east when the now-familiar melodious call to prayer crept in from the cracked window above my bed. Keaton sat up, turned and put his feet on the tile floor. His cot squeaked as […]

*Featured in The Buzz Magazines  As I waited at my gate, I stared at the boarding pass that read “Charles De Gaulle International Airport: Paris.” Paris: one of the great cities of the world, a mecca for the arts, and a symbol of Western progression. What an opportunity it was to be able to travel to […]

*Featured in The Buzz Magazines Carson Crain grew up in the middle of Houston, a city more known for sports on grass than on open, wind-swept water. Yet this Rice University student and St. John’s School graduate is hoping to make his way to the Olympics – as a windsurfer. This summer, after training in […]