Bahía: the candomblé route through Salvador Cultural immersion through the candomblé houses, the capoeira terreiros, and the food at Casa de Tereza.
Costa Rica: the long surf, the longer reset Nosara, Santa Teresa, and the corrective surf programs that actually work.
Patagonia: the Carretera Austral on a motorbike 1,200 kilometers of unpaved through Aysén. The lake routes and the standalone lodges.
Tulum: cenotes and the cold-press recovery The cenote network, the freediving school, and the recovery stack at Be Tulum.
Reykjavik: cold-water diving in the Silfra Diving between the North American and Eurasian plates. Two-degree water. Hundred-meter visibility.
Capri: yacht out, ferry in How to actually use Capri — by water from Positano, not Anacapri from the funicular.
Aoraki: heli-routes above Mount Cook The southern alps from a turbine. Tasman Glacier, Murchison, and the alpine huts above.
Kangaroo Island: the gap year for grown-ups Southern Ocean Lodge, the bushfire regrowth, and what the marsupials are doing now.
Stewart Island: the cage and the apex New Zealand’s southernmost shark cage diving. April–October. Cold and rare.
Barbuda: pink sand, no signal 17 miles of frigate-bird coast and a single road. The Lighthouse Bay stay.