Author: wakecarro

Days here in Orlando are flying back super fast! Yesterday was one of them as the day started with a sweet morning ride with my room-mates out in our backyard behind Abbys boat. The water was glassy and the temperature right now is just right, not too hot but yet hot 😉

After a quick breakfast I went to take my written drivers test for my American license and was thrilled to pass it so that now I am one step closer to an american car! On our way home we managed to get ourselves some complimentary Starbucks after which we went off to film for a new edit we are working on. I can’t tell you too much but I can give you a sneak peak of this picture:

After smashing a Tofurky sandwich (I am soo addicted, its tofu that’s ment to taste like turkey) I got picked up by my Hyperlite team mate Raimi and we drove out to Shaun Murray’s house for a photo shoot. It was really amazing to get to meet Shaun (who else has his own videogame??) since he’s always been a great inspiration to me as he was in the VHS film that I would watch when I started wakeboarding and also on the posters on my wall from when I was 15. After a full day of shooting me and Raimi went out to dinner and then I had my first Cold Stone since going to America. Ice Cream here is sooo yummy and thanks Hyperlite for treating us 😉

Over all it was such a good day that when I got back to the house I watched one episode of  “Revenge”, my newest addiction, before I passed out around 10.30. Ready to do it all again!

Remember my trip to Bali in the start of the year? I went there visiting my friend Gabbe who together with his fiancé and another friend named Fredrik has built a house in Kerobokan, about thirty minutes from Kuta by scooter.

Getting on my flight I had no idea what to expect, knowing Gabbe to be a surf-bum who spent all his free time catching waves and most of his savings on traveling the world searching for new spots I expected shed and would haven been happy if he had running water in his new house. Feel my surprise when I landed and this villa turned out to be one of the most amazing houses I’ve ever stayed in. With fluffy beds, massive bathrooms and the dark blue pool where I started my mornings with a morning swim every day I was blown away. Adding to this that the house was filled with great traveling people who took me to the best surf spots with the balinese surfers shredding and helping me progress on my surfboard as well as kept me laughing so that my abs got sore, I can’t think of any way to have made my trip better.

The nights were spent chilling with a few cold beers and either a BBQ or a take away from the local cooking lady who made the most amazing food (even though, when I first saw her place I was sure I was going to get a bit of asian food poisoning, as her kitchen was not more than a whole in the wall, but it turned out great and to be delicious). Usually we were all sunburned, sore and with big smiles on our faces from surfing all day so to chill in the big couch and watch a movie on the massive projector screen which appears out of nowhere and just adds the coziness of the place. 

In the whole, the vibe of the villa is just what I wanted my Bali experience to be: relaxed, stylish, surfy and loving. THANK YOU SO MUCH Gabbe, Jossi, Fredrik, Camilla, Su, Rico, Wick and so many more for this amazing trip!!

I can’t wait to come back!

Love Carro