Matt’s Mat

When we left Sri Lanka a few months ago, we had to part company with a trusted family friend: Matt’s Mat. Some history is necessary here I suppose: Matt is a really friendly French guy that we met in early summer of 2023 at Surfpoint Sri Lanka. He is a professional musician and runs a […]

A Walk Around Boracay

We have been on Boracay for nearly a month (three weeks this time and almost another week last month), and we are leaving in a couple of days, so I thought I would share some photos. This one will contain a bunch of photos, and, thankfully, not much writing to bore you to tears. Enjoy! […]

Abandoned Churches And Happy Goats

Tam gets these crazy notions sometimes. Honestly, most of the time it turns into some crazy amazing adventure and we find some remarkable uncrowded mysto cool spot. But not always… Sometimes it turns into a ninety degree stifling bushwhack through dense jungle foliage interlaced with big fucking spiderwebs. Yuck. All this for a mysterious waterfall […]

Tide pools In Lagoons On Mindoro Island: The Beautiful And The Truly Strange

I woke up early the other day, and I noticed the tide was way out in the lagoon (this was when we were staying on the Southeast corner of Mindoro Island). Our bungalow was just some thin thatched walls and roof, and we left the door open for some ventilation all night so that in […]

Kiteboarding Palawan: Blood, Sand, And Saltwater

We have been kiting quite a lot. We found some really great, remote, uncrowded spots to kite, mostly in lagoons, inside reefs, with onshore wind, and lots and lots of coral. By now, in our travels, and owing mostly to the fact that I never really wore shoes if I wasn’t required to most of […]

A New color: Apo Reef Blue

We took a boat out to Apo Reef the other day. We went out with a group of friends we have been traveling with for a few weeks, and had a boat all to ourselves. As a matter of fact, we were the only boat to go out to the reef that day so it […]

Too Much Gear And The Tuk Tuk Mafia

We have been traveling for fourteen months. We travel to chase wind and waves and adventure. We kite, surf, snorkel and freedive, and because of this we need to travel with a ton of gear and a pretty hefty first-aid kit. When you include all the gear, Tam and I each travel with two bags […]

A Fun Bunch Of Travel Companions

We left Sri Lanka to go to the Philippines because a group of friends from Southern California were taking a three-week trip there to kite, explore, and relax. We thought it would be nice to hang out with friends from back home, and it was. What a great bunch to travel with. We moved a […]

But What About Purpose?

I have spent quite a lot of my time recently, in the last year or so, thinking about purpose. I have (many) people in my life that insist I will go crazy in retirement, and come running home to jump back into the rat race. All for the reason that our lives will lack the drive […]

And Good Morning To The Philippines!

We made it! After twenty two hours of short flights, medium layovers, ridiculously long terminal transfers, and no sleep, we got into the Philippines. We are tired, but happy to be here starting a new adventure. We are meeting good friends from LA, kiting and hanging out. Tam and I will be here for two […]