by jakebenno@gmail.com | Mar 20, 2016 | ayearsseafever
Week Sixteen. The Pilgrimage to Adams Peak After two days on the road we finally arrived in Ella a beautiful small town in the mountains. Ella was alive with activity and tourists all clambering about to see the many natural wonders this village and its...
by jakebenno@gmail.com | Mar 13, 2016 | ayearsseafever
Week Fifteen. Hitching Through The Mountains. The morning after the full moon I set off with an energetic French boy called Max. We had met a few days earlier and got to talking about how we were both craving some solitude and adventure. When we realised we...
by jakebenno@gmail.com | Mar 6, 2016 | ayearsseafever
Week Fourteen. In amongst all the crazy excitement that is to be found in foreign skies, green waves, new smiles and tropical fruit my mind and my body decided it needed a break. The heat became almost too much and it was a constant struggle to keep my eyes open and...
by jakebenno@gmail.com | Feb 21, 2016 | ayearsseafever
One beautiful thing about traveling to me is always making friends with the local kids. Children no matter where you go are essentially the same, they love to play and they are curious about new people and life. Seeing the way that they connect to the world around...
by jakebenno@gmail.com | Feb 14, 2016 | ayearsseafever
I was mostly in a haze. After the excitement of seeing my old friends the two Marc/k’s that run the surf camp Elsewhere, here, making new friends, spending days sipping coconuts and surfing and nights dancing at the clifftop bar that looks over Weligama Bay my body...
by jakebenno@gmail.com | Feb 2, 2016 | ayearsseafever
I arrived in this beautiful country in the middle of the night. Unaware of my surroundings I didn’t make it to the house that is to be my home for the next few months, until around 4am. Waking up the next morning I found myself in a large room surrounded by sleeping...
