Liz Clark = The Female McGuyver

If you haven't heard of Liz Clark, read up on the chica. She's you know, just doing an everyday minor task called, um, sailing around the world by herself. What led me into knowing about her total badassedness is the film, Dear and Yonder. They filmed Liz as she's hunting/fishing for all that she eats, climbing up a coconut tree, diving to fetch her own seaweed to make seaweed salad, curing typhoid in a local village while playing double dutch, then just hopping off the side of her boat to go surf the vacant idyllic surf break in the Christmas Islands.

Yeah, I feel so dull too.

Puerto Rico

Econmony, shamsmodomy, baalopalopony, labotmoy. If you could pinpoint one positive from the financial state of things, it's the crazy deals that you find left and right, Ahem, might I say travel is definitely one of those. I found this killer deal on Travelzoo's top 20 deals of the week. If you don't subscribe, you are seriously missing out.

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So here's the deal, 4 days including airfare to Puerto Rico: $349 Cha Ching! that's as much as some people I know's bar tabs for one weekend. sad. sad.

Here's the deal

Ahh and to top it all of, a little Rincon surfing doesn't seem too shabby. Warm waaaaaaaaaaterrrrrrrr.

Tavarua

So, If I was going to pinpoint a dream vacation, this place pretty much sums it up. It used to be a 50/50 tie between a surf charter in the Maldives, but after seeing pictures and hearing my Boss's stories form this place. Sha-Zam! I mean the South Pacific isn't exactly Florida, anywhere you go is sweet. But this place takes it to the penthouse. You get your own private island from Saturday to Saturday, there's a maximum of 30 people, so yeah, I'll stop. Just check out the website, and make friends with someone who is high up in an action sports company-they all get weeks annually.

Check it out

Check out some seriously sweet photos from this stream on Flickr by Darin Moran. No Cheezy postcard pics, you get a real feel for the island and trip.

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