For our trip to Hong Kong, we needed something extremely light that was breathable, could protect us from the wind and a fair amount of moisture. The “Second Wind” is...
We humped our gear along a soggy footpath through rice paddies, toward a pinnacle rock that looked like the earth was giving us the finger. At the foot of that...
Many centuries ago, Buddhist kingdoms once ruled Java, as evidenced in ancient gajah (elephant) temples. A 6-hour long walk to one in particular on Panaitan Island hides the oldest remaining...
The Layover Jacket, the most comfortable and adaptable travel partner to our popular Layover Pant. Constructed of a stretch nylon micro ripstop with a Polartec Alpha liner, the Layover Jacket...
The sultry air and hazy horizon urged us to sail down the Sunda Strait off of West Java toward an island in the distance, drop anchor in the bay and...
There was one wave in particular that we couldn’t quit on Panaitan Island that tempted us daily with its danger—a funneling left hander that rifled around a point onto completely...
Brought back from the dead (or, Roark’s first trip in Vol. 1), the restless, risky spirit of the Ghost Rider haunted us on the Isle of Skye, urging us to...
The sultry air and hazy horizon urged us to sail down the Sunda Strait off of West Java toward an island in the distance, drop anchor in the bay and...
After a night’s sail down the Sunda Strait between West Java and Southern Sumatra, we rounded an island with a horseshoe bay that had three right-handers on one side and...
Somewhere in a vivid Kemang bazaar, we spotted a hand-painted Javanese textile that either resembled a seismographic earthquake chart or a lightening blur in the clouds during those daily heat...
After each languid day of fasting during the holy month, once the sun set and malam (night) fell, the locals came alive again, gathering around the smoky food carts in...
Long ago, Javanese leopards roamed the dense inner jungles until poached to near-extinction, often for illegal blood-sport. But if you wander deep enough into some protected, far corners of the...
