intermediate surfer on sabbatical: where would you spend rest of year?
hey all, i’m taking a sabbatical from work and thinking about how to use the time for longer surf trips.
question: if you were an intermediate surfer with a few months free, how would you design the trips?
i’m less focused on picking one perfect base and more interested in what combination of places makes sense when time/logistics are less of a constraint. places where a longer stay, patience, or harder travel actually pays off are especially interesting.
for context, i’ve surfed Sri Lanka, Bali, Lombok, Peru, Nicaragua, San Sebastián / northern Spain, and California. i’m considering Indonesia (Bali / Lombok) for the rest of summer into fall, and potentially Taiwan later in the fall, but i’m open to other ideas.
what i’m optimizing for:
- lots of surf and real progression
- intermediate-friendly waves, with room to push
- places that are worth doing specifically because i have more time
- multiple-location itineraries, not just a single base
- ideally some access to coaching / video analysis along the way
- reasonable setup for living/traveling for a while
if you had this window, would you do a few zones in Indo, Indo + Taiwan, add somewhere else entirely, or structure it in a totally different way?
would love to hear how people would actually sequence a trip like this, especially from anyone who’s done something similar.
no crazy budget constraints
Thank you!