I think it was November, or so. Definitely midnight. I was sitting in my overpriced apartment in Amsterdam, feeling like somebody chewed me and spit me out. All I wanted to do was go for half a year to Portugal and call it a project. I emailed the founder of Soul & Surf, «THIS IS NOT SPAM I SWEAR». Three months later, I set off on a trip to Sri Lanka, India, and Portugal to collect stories from surf communities and turn them into a coffee table book. A coffee table book about living a life less ordinary.