Surf sessions, and the thoughts that come with them.

We just came in from a surf session in Unawatuna (it’s still hard to say that name without chuckling a bit (kind of like the town of Dickwela. Whatever, yes, I am juvenile)), and on the half-hour drive home it came to me how diverse our thoughts and conversations are while we are sitting in […]

Arugam Bay: Pets, Surf, And Self-Drive Safaris. Part Two: The Surf

If you asked me today whether I think you should go to Arugam Bay for the surf, I would probably say, “I don’t know”. Yes, that is a very clear and concise answer, I know, but it is impossible to answer that simply… There is surf in Arugam Bay, and it isn’t actually that bad […]

Kiteboarding Kalpitiya… The good, the great, and the ugly.

I suppose it must be time to talk about kiteboarding here in Kalpitiya (and the surrounding area. This blog is supposed to be about wind as well as travel. I have been messing around with video editing a bit the last week or so, so be warned: There will be some videos in this one. […]

Finished!

I just finished my IKO (International Kiteboarding Organization) instructor class! After two weeks, eighty hours of theory and practical, and about twenty hours of homework and study, I can teach kiteboarding. I took a course here in Sri Lanka with this fun, funny, incredibly experienced guy named Matty from England. He made the course a […]

One Year, Not A Nurse.

Tam reminded me the other day (June 12th) that it was my one year anniversary of leaving St. Charles. I have a lot of mixed feelings about this, but mostly relief. I do miss nursing work, it’s just the job I can’t stomach anymore. Metrics, unnecessary screenings, monitoring wait times, poor policy for managing dangerous […]

Sri Lanka At Last!

We have made it to Sri Lanka finally! I say finally because it feels like twenty years we have been talking about coming here (okay, it has been twenty years). I am really glad we did. We have been here five days, and I feel like I am sliding into this state of peace here […]

These Are A Few Of My Favorite Things… On Kiteboarding.

This post was originally posted on 07 April, 2023, and moved here, to my new blog. Kiteboarding! It is the long, smooth, cruisey downwinder, effortlessly looping the kite and carving alternating edges along the swell caused by the very same wind that powers your progress. It is dropping into a wave on the perfect sideshore […]

Kiting, Finally!

This post was originally published on 20 Jan, 2023, and moved here to my new blog. On arrival we (probably more me) were horrified to find that there was no wind in the forecast for the first four days we were here. I was going a little crazy for that four days. Then the wind […]

Going, Going, Gone Baby Gone…

This post was originally published on 11 Jan, 2023, and moved here to my new blog. We did it!None of this feels real in any way at this point. For the last few months, I have been saying (mostly to appease my own anxiety) that I wouldn’t feel any sense of realizing the results of […]