In January of 2003, Ingrid and I quit our jobs, sold our cars and all our stuff, flew to California, bought a truck and a callen camper, tricked out the camper shell with new walls, a bed, cabinets, fans, lights, a fridge, and drove south on our Central American surf trip. We basically turned down every road that went to the coast, had a look around, and stayed and surfed if we liked it, and moved on if we didn’t.
We created a diary of our exploits and adventures covering a year and a half road-surf trip through Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. We finally ended up in Pavones, where we set up and still run Venus Surf Adventures, a surf camp in Costa Rica far from the trappings of modern life (well, most of them anyway), in a bucolic, remote, jungle beach town.
We love it here, and this blog is the story of how we got here.
Yes, Pavones is a perfect wave