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 […]

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 […]

So Long Sri Lanka

We have been here for nine months. It has started to feel like home. And, as with any home, it comes with its goods and bads. Thankfully the list of goods is much, much longer than the little list of bads (and honestly, the bads ain’t all that bad). I can’t possibly do this list […]

Wow! One Year.

I was just digging through all of the forty two thousand pictures we have taken since we left on January ninth last year, and, holy shit! It has been one year today. I was thinking I would dig up some highlight photos from everywhere we have been in the last year, and post them on […]

Gone

A man I knew died last night: I wish I knew him better, I didn’t truly know him my whole life. He didn’t die well: I don’t believe It was the death he would have chosen, like his life. He died quietly and alone: He did not take the spectacular hero’s demise in flaming glory. […]

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 […]

Tigger is getting Older…

All my life I have loved the Winnie the Pooh stories, and have taken so many fundamental lessons from them on how to live and be a better person (as well as plenty of tears for the more epiphanous parallels some have offered). The whole gang has played a role, not just in my development […]

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

We can only surf so much in one day, then we need to eat and go find some adventuring to do. There are safaris all over around Arugam Bay, both into Kumana National Park and Yala National Park, but both can run around one hundred and fifty to three hundred dollars (for two of us) […]

She’s a Beauty…

I have no idea how I deserve to be with someone like this. She agreed to marry me twenty-two years ago tomorrow (she must be a bit touched in the head to agree to that). We met twenty-five adventure-filled, sometimes chaotic, sometimes painful, always entertaining, and beautiful years ago. She has been the other part […]

Step Away From The Machine, Man…

I just came in from a surf session. It was one of those rare, great sessions when you find clean takeoffs on tricky waves, you read the waves properly, make all your cutbacks, and ride clean lines for long, smooth rides. Today, the waves were sporadic, with a lot of time between good sets, so […]