JOURNEY: The Wooden Movement
Journey Alaias are hand crafted in Bali and incorporate the high performance of finless surfing, along with the beautiful aesthetic of hand crafted wooden boards. Check ’em out here.
Soul & surf
It’s amazing how busy you become when you retire. Leaving my company and my job behind as I set forth on this journey I naively imagined the vast expanses of time I was opening up would be used to explore new vocations, skills and pastimes, yet there aren’t enough hours in the day to even write this damn blog.
Discovering Eden
On previous visits to Bali, my prejudice has kept me from visiting the Gili Islands off the northwest coast of Lombok. It’s dubbed a travellers’ paradise, so my visions of stoned, dreadlocked, friendship-banded euro geeks gamboling about the place overshadowed the reported beauty of the three tiny tropical islands… and I guess the supposed lack of surf didn’t help.
They paved paradise…
…and put up a parking lot.
The inordinately long time between posts is testament to the surf-rich Bali lifestyle. We left India a month ago now and have been squeezing two or three surfs in a day, cowering from the oppressive heat in between.
Those Bagus Days
After my planned trip to the longboard heaven of Costa Rica had to be aborted for various reasons, I found myself on a plane heading for Bali.
From San Francisco to Bali, here are a few shots from Mr Thelo Aiken.
