Scribbles Abroad
Surfing The World
Category: Surfing
World travel surf trip
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The road was long but not hard. With the comfort of a white station wagon and bags of goodies the trek was made enjoyable. Our goal was to surf good empty waves, avoid hitting kangaroos, and meet some locals. As I’m writing and now that we’ve made it all the way across I can confidently…
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We were really excited to head to OZ and get back to a first world country. I was especially looking forward to be in a country that regularly supplied toilet paper in their bathrooms. However, traveling through Australia would be a completely different style of traveling and would pose new challenges for us. First of…
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Far from the rest of the Philippines lies an archipelago that holds roughly 1/3 of all the islands of the country. Its a beautiful oasis that has more in common with Borneo than the rest of the Philippines. On Palawan, of the places that we visited, the area that stood out above the rest was…
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Here’s a little video we put together We got to La Union in the dark after a 5 hour bus ride. We caught a nice bus this time and rolled in style. After reading our trust lonely planet book we had them drop us off at the Sebay Inn. The Lonley Planet is a truly…
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After checking the surf reports, the waves looked as though they were going to take a short hiatus. Instead of hanging around Bali, we decided to take the advice of our Couch Surfing host Jacopo and flew to Yogyakarta to check out Borobudur and Prambanan, two of Indonesia’s most famous temples, plus a couple of…
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It had been one month of eating rice and noodles, staying in the cheapest accommodations we could bare, and learning to haggle the hustlers when my parents showed up in Bali. This was their first time to Bali and it was a quasi honeymoon reunion. They were supposed to be here 36 years ago for…
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After Shaun departed we headed straight for Bingin. I hired a car and we packed up our gear. The driver didn’t want to put the boards on the roof because it makes you a red flag for the cops to pull you over for a bribe so we stuffed all the gear in a mini…
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So back to Bali we went. We arranged for a driver to take us to Bandarlampung airport where we caught a plane to Jakarta on Sriwijaya Airlines. The ticket was around $50 each and we were charged only $8 for all of our surfboards. We hopped on the plane and about 2 hours later landed…
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Check out our video Chichi helped us find a reliable driver to take us to Ujung Gentang. We had to pay a little more but it was a faster and more comfortable ride than if we hired a bimo, not to mention safer too. We began our three hour journey up a windy mountain road.…
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