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What happens when you start surfing
photo by: Matador Ambassador Allie Bombach The allure of surfing is underestimated. I got into it at an early age; I didn’t consider the long-term effects. Neither did my parents. In 1995 surfing was...
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Ruminations on architecture as culture, the value of open spaces, and vans
Photos by the author I’m in a little yellow van with curtains, driven by an unshaven twenty-something wearing ray bans with unkempt, brown hair. The sluggishness of the van, combined with the gentle...
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6 best surf spots in Nicaragua
A typical panga | Photo: Zach Klein NICA’S WAVES rank among the best in Central America. Trade winds blow unopposed over Lake Managua and out into the Pacific, blessing the southwestern coastline with...
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Maxed out: A surfer’s encounter with Desert Point, Indonesia
Deserts early in the morning on the day I surfed. The wave can be deceptive from the shore with sections like this that look totally makeable. The same wave will later amplify to a much larger the...
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How to piss off a Kiwi
Photo: Claire L. Evans In bringing this challenge to the streets of Raglan, some Kiwis insisted that it was just “not possible,” that any attempts would “only entertain us.” Recent statistics do...
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Documenting New Zealand’s best surf [interview]
We chose this shot because you just can’t get anymore Kiwi than this! A slabbing peak and a bro in white freezing works gumboots, shorts and a black hoody, in the dirty deep south. Chris Garden took...
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The 10 cheapest cities in the world, 2013
The streets of Tunis. Photo: WomEOS When I was in Nicaragua in 2011, I had a friend who was renting a room with her boyfriend in Managua. They each paid $25 per month for rent. The bus ride to their...
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Travel guide: Surfing and fishing Tamarindo, Costa Rica
Photo: Carlos Castro I come to a point in the road where the buildings cease and the Tamarindo Wildlife Refuge takes over. There’s one last house, shaded by a mango tree rising above its roof. I knock....
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When travel is your paycheck
They’ve conducted studies about us backpacking hippies, or “experience seekers,” which is the current politically correct term. We’re travelers who have our working holiday visas. They know who we are,...
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How to explain long-term travel in a job interview
Photo: bark Traveling the world was probably a lot harder than you’d imagined, and now that you’re back, you find yourself in need of a job. You may be disheartened to learn that, in spite of your...
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