Panama Diaries Part III: Jungle Adventure

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 […]

Panama Diaries Part II: Introduction to BJJ

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 […]

Panama Diaries Part I: First Impressions

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 […]

How an Off-Season Surf Trip to Panama Sparked an Entirely New Passion

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 […]

A Brief History of Early Surfing

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 […]

Conversations in Havana

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 […]

How a Surf Trip Changed My View of My Dad

*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 […]

What One Amazing Wave (And Wipeout) Taught Me About Business and Life

*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 […]

Stumbling Through Morocco

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 […]

City of Light

*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 […]