Fatherly Advice - Quit my Job?

Welcome to Surf-Hotels.com, we are surfers and we like to travel. It all started in the mid 80's, I had just graduated from high school and I was working a summer job and my Dad calls me and says, "What ya doing for the summer?"

I told him I'd be working all summer to save for a surf trip and he said why wait, let's go now. I replied, "what about my job?" and he said, " just quit!"

I quit that day; we packed the boards on the car and my first proper surf trip was born, a three month journey to the tip of Baja surfing uncrowded epic southern swell along the way. I never thought that the best advise I'd ever get from my Dad was to quit a job and go surfing.

A few years later a friend calls me up and says lets go surf Costa Rica and I found myself quiting yet another job and surfing my brains out in Costa Rica. We had a lot of fun on that trip, in the picture below the police are arresting me for too much fun---actually we were just messing around with them, try asking a cop in the US to have some fun!

Several years later I would travel from California to Costa Rica by car and surf along the way, see drivemeloco.com for more info on that journey and for travel advice about driving through Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama. There is info about getting your car into South America also.

Asia and Australia we next on my travel list, I lived in Bali on and off for a few years and finally made my way to Australia, surfing from the East to the West and scoring some epic wave in New Zealand on my way back . . . home?

If you haven't traveled much and would love a wonderful experience please go to Bali!

Next I moved to Europe, living in Spain mainly and surfing Portugal, France, and the UK with frequency. I also ventured to the Azores Islands, Morocco, and the Canaries Islands during my three year Euro fest, surf travel was becoming my life, or least a big portion of it.

I moved back to the US and started going south again, traveling to Mainland Mexico every six months for the past decade and surfing from Puerto Escondido to Mazatlan, sprinkling in a few trips to Costa Rica, Brazil, Argentina, and Ecuador.

Want to take a unique surf trip? Go surf the Galapagos Islands, it is magical!

Next I had Africa on my sites and stumbled upon Jbay in 2004, hands down one of the best waves on the planet. I've been back to South Africa five times since 2004, surfing from Cape Town to Durban and somehow avoiding all the great white sharks along the Transski coast.

There are many other places I have surfed on this planet, Japan, Thailand, India, Cuba, China . . .just to name a few.

I've been around and I created this site as a resource for surfers that want to lead a similar lifestyle or for those that just want to take a break from the grind and follow a dream.

Keep dreaming my friends and make your dreams reality by living the way you want.

What is my fovorite place to travel you might be wondering, they all have something special but I do have a top three lsit, here it is:

Top three surf travel spots in the world:

(1) Jbay, South Africa
(2) Lembongan, Bali
(3) West Coast, Australia

Peace.

Derek D. Founder
Surf Hotels For Traveling Surfers