Northern California Surfers Launch Surfbreakrentals.com: A Niche Beach Vacation Rental Website
Surfbreak Rentals publicly announced their new travel website this month, which is dedicated to helping traveling surfers find great places to stay near the world’s best surf breaks and beaches. The entire site design and navigation is based on more than 1500 global surf breaks, which makes surfbreakrentals.com the first vacation rental site that allows users to search for accommodations based on specific beaches and surf breaks  … More
Roadtrip Timelapse / Drivelapse video from my 12,225 mile roadtrip around the USA from August 2011 – October 2011 shortened to 5 minutes.Â
More details and a map of my America Roadtrip Timelapse Drivelapse Project can be found here:
http://briandefrees.com/featured/usa-drivelapsetimelapse-project/Â
At only 26, Chuck Swafford had found himself in a rut.
“I was stuck. … I was making money, but I wasn’t who I wanted to be,” said Swafford, the man with a scraggly beard and a tightly built body who was facing a crisis of identity and purpose.
But looking around the Arizona factory where he assembled emergency slides for Boeing 737s, Swafford knew something had to change.
So Swafford quit his job, pocketed some cash and … More
Fishermen might have gotten there first, but decades before Cancún put Mexico at the top of the heap for sun-and-sand vacations, peripatetic surfers discovered the sublime beaches that fringe Mexico’s west coast. In the 1950s, Matanchen Bay in northern Nayarit, appears to have been the lodestar for surfers with a case of wanderlust — about as far as they could go in a creaky woody without sacrificing home, job and family for the sake of an exotic wave.
Hundreds of surf spots dotting more than 2,000 miles of tropical coastline have been conquered since then, some of them many miles from nowhere  … More