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5 Reasons to Invest in Your Female Friendships Both In and Out of the Water

Moving to Indonesia as a single woman has truly highlighted the importance of female friendships both in and out of the water. Let’s be real, making lasting friendships as an adult is hard. It takes time to meet like-minded women and form real connections, let [...]

By |September 4th, 2023|Categories: Adventure, Surf|Comments Off on 5 Reasons to Invest in Your Female Friendships Both In and Out of the Water

South Sumatra – Indonesia as we remember it

As I am about to write the full chronicle of our recent adventure in South Sumatra, I search #sumatra in my personal Notes app. I find this quick list of places and names of the surf world I had stitched together on September 20th, 2014.  [...]

By |March 17th, 2023|Categories: Adventure, Surf|Comments Off on South Sumatra – Indonesia as we remember it

Lofoten: a cold-water surf paradise

Photos by Fredrikke Sofie Jerring In the Northernmost part of Norway, above the Arctic Circle in an archipelago surrounded by rough waters, astonishing majestic mountains, breathtaking fjords and world class waves you find Lofoten. A cold-water surf paradise, and probably one of the most remote [...]

By |January 28th, 2023|Categories: Adventure, Surf, Travel|Tags: , , , , |Comments Off on Lofoten: a cold-water surf paradise

Dew Promchareon on Thailand’s Growing Surf Scene

In this article, Caitlin Creeper sits down to talk Thailand's Growing Surf Scene with Dew Promchareon. Where are you from? Rayong, Thailand. I learnt how to surf there but I usually move down to Phuket or Khao Lak as they get more swell. I am [...]

By |November 4th, 2022|Categories: Adventure, Empowerment, Surf, Training and fitness, Travel, Wellness|Tags: , , |Comments Off on Dew Promchareon on Thailand’s Growing Surf Scene

10 days Living on Water -The Trip I Almost Did Not Take

A trip that started a little over 2 years ago. It's early pandemic, and I have just been repatriated to Canada from El Salvador on a flight organized by the embassy. Upon arrival, my parents send me off to a cottage to quarantine by a [...]

By |September 22nd, 2022|Categories: Adventure, Surf|Comments Off on 10 days Living on Water -The Trip I Almost Did Not Take

Scared you’re not living your life to the fullest? Read this.

What's your biggest fear? Sorry, I know we just started this conversation, and, like, we're getting deep pretty quickly here. Kind of like when at my birthday drinks recently one of my friends asked another friend (they had only just met); 'do you want cake?' [...]

By |July 4th, 2022|Categories: Adventure|Comments Off on Scared you’re not living your life to the fullest? Read this.

How to Know When it’s Time to Leave

“Do not choose the lesser life. do you hear me. do you hear me. choose the life that is. yours. the life that is seducing your lungs. that is dripping down your chin.” -Nayyirah Waheed, Nejma Should I stay or should I go. I think [...]

By |June 26th, 2022|Categories: Adventure, Empowerment|Comments Off on How to Know When it’s Time to Leave

On the keto diet, weight loss and training for a triathlon

Hi, my name is Erika. I’m 30 years old. I’m the fittest I’ve been in years, and dude, that feels amazing. Here’s what’s written in between the lines: it wasn’t always like that. I’ve always been an active person. More than the average Joe or [...]

By |June 1st, 2022|Categories: Adventure, Life hacks, Training and fitness|Comments Off on On the keto diet, weight loss and training for a triathlon

SALTY IN FAR WAY INDONESIA // Part 1 ~ The Getting There

Every cult has its mecca, that one place fanatics dream of experiencing with their own living soul. Surfing is no exception: Indonesia it is. In the last decade Indo has easily become the promised land for surfers and non-surfers alike, rapidly gaining popularity as one [...]

By |May 30th, 2022|Categories: Adventure, Surf|Comments Off on SALTY IN FAR WAY INDONESIA // Part 1 ~ The Getting There

SALTY IN FAR AWAY INDONESIA // Part 2 ~ Life à la Robinson Crusoe

If you missed it, read: Part 1- The Getting There  THE HABITATION We had settled into a modest land camp at the southern tip of the island. Six ocean front rooms with flower pattern mosquitos nets, a disproportionally spacious bathroom with a tiny sink, a shower [...]

By |May 29th, 2022|Categories: Adventure, Surf|Comments Off on SALTY IN FAR AWAY INDONESIA // Part 2 ~ Life à la Robinson Crusoe

SALTY IN FAR AWAY INDONESIA // Part 3 – Surfing on Razor Blades

If you haven't read them yet, first read Part 1 and Part 2. Beyond the stormy boat ride and the wild pig BBQ, the real point to coming all the way here was obviously to surf impeccable waves. But we would be lying if we [...]

By |May 28th, 2022|Categories: Adventure, Surf|Comments Off on SALTY IN FAR AWAY INDONESIA // Part 3 – Surfing on Razor Blades

5 Reasons Why You Should Go on an All Girls Surf and Yoga Trip in Ecuador

How did we all caught this “being busy” syndrome? When did it become normal to always be in a rush? How can we possibly spend our whole lives planning the future without never really being in the present? Our body and mind need a break [...]

By |March 26th, 2022|Categories: Adventure, Surf, Yoga|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |Comments Off on 5 Reasons Why You Should Go on an All Girls Surf and Yoga Trip in Ecuador

Six subtle ways living overseas makes you a better person

1. You bounce back from embarrassment/ shame/ humiliation faster If you want to live overseas or in a different country, especially if that country speaks a different language, you have to be prepared to look stupid hundreds- nay, thousands- nay. millions- NAY. BILLIONS- of times. [...]

By |May 14th, 2019|Categories: Adventure|Comments Off on Six subtle ways living overseas makes you a better person

The Real Reason Why We Get Sad After Coming Home From Travel

Photo Lex Weinstein As the plane started to descend I saw my home city appear below me. After almost a year of living on the other side of the world, Adelaide looked like a toy town, like something I could cup in the palm of [...]

By |March 9th, 2019|Categories: Adventure|Comments Off on The Real Reason Why We Get Sad After Coming Home From Travel

Real Talk: Travel, Surf and Following your Dreams as a Single Mother

‘Oh the places you will go’ by Dr. Seuss, is one of my favorite keepsake books, traveling with me over the last 3 decades. I have lived in over 13 countries since I was born in Africa, traveling since the age of 2. Packing a [...]

By |February 19th, 2019|Categories: Adventure|Comments Off on Real Talk: Travel, Surf and Following your Dreams as a Single Mother

6 reasons why you need to visit El Salvador

“Home is not the place where you happen to be born. It’s the place where you become yourself.” -Pico Iver El Salvador has been my accidental home for over two-and-a-half years. I came to explore her for two weeks and before I knew it, the [...]

By |December 28th, 2018|Categories: Adventure|Comments Off on 6 reasons why you need to visit El Salvador

How to get everything you’ve ever wanted in 2019

“We have lost too many days chasing the wrong things… today is the day to make things right. Today everything can be yours.” -unknown If someones profile is going to piss you off, don’t look at it. Just don’t. Mute or unfollow every profile that [...]

By |December 28th, 2018|Categories: Adventure|Comments Off on How to get everything you’ve ever wanted in 2019

Why Travel Makes You a Better Person

Traveling has never been this accessible. More and more, we are using school exchanges, working visas or just backpacking around as a common rite of passage. We all want to see the world, to live the dream, to pursue our passion and hopefully make money while [...]

By |October 11th, 2018|Categories: Adventure|Comments Off on Why Travel Makes You a Better Person

Les Salty Souls dans la série Surf Inc. de Ouisurf

L’automne dernier, Benjamin Rochette, fondateur de Ouisurf, nous a proposé de prendre part à son nouveau projet: Surf Inc.  À travers une web série, on présente le parcours de 10 entrepreneurs qui ont choisi de s’expatrier afin de mettre leur passion au centre de leur [...]

By |September 24th, 2018|Categories: Adventure|Comments Off on Les Salty Souls dans la série Surf Inc. de Ouisurf

Marie-Christine Amyot: “Make Your Own Reality”

We say things happen for a reason. Usually when someone is having a hard time in their life. My life is falling apart and you’re telling me “Everything happens for a reason”?! F*ck you… Seriously! Because, do you know what? Some things happen for absolutely [...]

By |September 19th, 2018|Categories: Adventure|Comments Off on Marie-Christine Amyot: “Make Your Own Reality”

The Dream House Project: Part 1- the Commitment

We are sitting at a round table in the bank, in the very middle of San Salvador. There's three women in the room; me, Tanya- the notary, and Doña Vilma- the 77-year-old woman selling me her land. Tanya is reading us the deed in Spanish [...]

By |May 20th, 2018|Categories: Adventure|Comments Off on The Dream House Project: Part 1- the Commitment

I Wasn’t Ready

Going to a foreign country for the first time has a lot of unknowns. I didn’t know if I'd like it, if I'd be safe, if I'd be myself, nothing…I was walking in blind. I didn’t know how I could prepare myself, so I just [...]

By |November 18th, 2017|Categories: Adventure|Comments Off on I Wasn’t Ready

Get present with your discomfort

For all of those moments that are pure bliss, bright and shiny, full of love and laughter, there are moments that are uncomfortable. The happy moments are welcomed, content we live in the present with them and cling to them from our past. I say [...]

By |July 6th, 2017|Categories: Adventure|Comments Off on Get present with your discomfort

Salty in Ecuador : the Recap !

The Salty Souls just completed their first season Ayampe, Ecuador. Here, participant Ashley Dujlovic recaps the nine day experience. Sometimes it takes a week away with other strong, like-minded, and hilarious women to remind you that you are capable of anything. There are not enough [...]

By |March 12th, 2017|Categories: Adventure, Surf, Yoga|Comments Off on Salty in Ecuador : the Recap !

Life Without a Plan – Heading ‘Wherever’

I want to tell this story about when I was in my mid to late twenties. At the time I had been working as a manual therapist at Tyax and Last Frontier Heli-skiing for five years in northern BC. I would take a Heli from Vancouver [...]

By |February 16th, 2017|Categories: Adventure|Comments Off on Life Without a Plan – Heading ‘Wherever’

It’s Not About Being Fearless

In the last year alone, I have lived and surfed in El Salvador, climbed a volcano in Guatemala, travelled Europe and currently live and snowboard in Golden, BC. Where will I be in a year time? I don't know. And maybe that's why a few [...]

By |February 3rd, 2017|Categories: Adventure|Comments Off on It’s Not About Being Fearless

“Do it. Do everything to change your life and leave. What are you scared of?!”

I slightly started to want a change in my life when I came back from a trip to Mexico in July 2015. But I denied it quickly and pushed these thoughts aside; thoughts I denied for way too long, thinking I might just want, or [...]

By |November 21st, 2016|Categories: Adventure|Comments Off on “Do it. Do everything to change your life and leave. What are you scared of?!”

Would You go to a Sober Dance Party? – Moonlight Dance –

The supermoon is out and i’m covered in sweat. We’ve been dancing for the past hour, all twenty of us women. And I mean, we’re really going for it. The ground is vibrating with the stomps of feet. We’re passionate, and it’s tangible. Limbs are [...]

By |November 21st, 2016|Categories: Adventure, Yoga|Comments Off on Would You go to a Sober Dance Party? – Moonlight Dance –

Hey Universe- Thankyou for not Giving me what I Thought I Wanted.

Feature Image: Alex Weinstein Exactly one year ago today I was an editorial intern at the largest independent women's website in Australia. And at the time it felt like the Single Most Important Goal of my Entire Life to be employed at the end of [...]

By |September 6th, 2016|Categories: Adventure|Comments Off on Hey Universe- Thankyou for not Giving me what I Thought I Wanted.

The Power of Looking Silly (and not caring that you do)

I'm standing in a corner store in Nicaragua, trying to talk myself into buying a bottle of water from the lady behind the counter. "un botella de agua, por favor" That's all I need to say. I know it, I've rehearsed it, I've seen it [...]

By |August 26th, 2016|Categories: Adventure|Comments Off on The Power of Looking Silly (and not caring that you do)