The Harmony Blog sits down with Spencer Klein, paddleboarder, surfer and founder of adventure outfitter Experience Nosara.

I remember driving with my dad, thumbing a Spanish dictionary, a surf guide, and a map of the coast at the same time. We were enveloped everywhere by the smell of guanacaste. The crushed guacimo in the roads, the burning of trash, the barrels of molasses spilled to keep the dust at bay; all of them came together to somehow frame our experiences traveling in a land and time that will never again be revisited.

Years later, I was on my own and it was raw and feral and around every turn in the road it seemed like the horizon of the whole world was there for the taking. Long, dusty drives became the fuel for silent dreams that swam through the thick afternoons. That ranch there. That’s where I’ll live, on the citrus trees down by the quebrada, the fish in the estero, surfing that point out front and the rock reef set up to the south that would only work on the big north swells. a whole life, an existence, put before me just like that. Poof. (more…)