Travis Bays

You’ve booked the tickets, packed the reef-safe sunscreen, and you are finally ready to trade the concrete jungle for the warmth of the Costa Rican coast where the wild meets the welcoming….

At Bodhi Surf + Yoga, some of our most profound conversations don’t happen in the water — they happen around the table at our communal breakfast and lunches before and after the…

Imagine standing on the soft, dark sands of Playa Uvita at dawn. To your left, the lush, mist-covered mountains of the Osa Peninsula reach out into the Pacific like a green finger…

Twenty years ago, I arrived in Costa Rica as a Peace Corps volunteer. I came with a backpack, a surfboard, and a desire to learn. What I found was a culture that…

A little while ago, my daughter had a boy over to the house. It was all pretty casual, a visit cleared with her mom. Though, as I found out later, I was…

When Pilar and I moved here in 2008 to embrace the Pura Vida lifestyle in Costa Rica, we did not arrive with a glossy five-year vision board or a folder full of…

I walked into the University of San Diego with a very specific, very rigid version of the future in my head. At eighteen, I thought I had the default path all figured…

If you have ever started a small business or run any project with passion, you know the pressure of the standard path. It is a voice that tells you to grow, scale,…

I want to talk about something we are often taught to be ashamed of: quitting. In our culture of relentless striving and hustle, to quit is the four-letter word that signals defeat….

I want to start this series of stories by sharing the most valuable business lesson I have ever learned. It didn’t happen in a boardroom or during a high-stakes negotiation. It happened…