Donkey Patrol | Surfing Travel | Surf Resort | Kandui Mentawai Islands Indonesia | San Diego

In 15 days we will be departing to the airport and the Donkey indo surfing journey will begin.

24 hours of flying to Kuala Lumpur the capital of Malaysia via Malaysia Air for most and Singapore Airlines / Hawaiian Airlines for a few others, 2 days enjoying KL, a 2 hour private reservation for the wave pool at Sunway Lagoon, no doubt a few hours of antics at the swim up bar at our hotel in KL, a short 1 hour flight to Padang Indonesia followed by a day of rest and body/equipment prep. 1 puddle jump buddy holly plane flight out to the islands, followed by a 2 hour boat ride to the resort. Thats allot of travel time, considering the actual surfing part of the trip is just getting started..

11 days at kandui resort and surfing the playgrounds region of the mentawais, considered by many to be the best concentration of surf breaks in the world. Our island resort is located within a stones throw of 25 world class waves all of which we access via our exclusive fleet of 6 boats used to ferry us from one uncrowded barrel to the next. Oh… and did I mention we are shooting a movie too? Yeah a movie, in 1080 HD.

The Crew:
The Smythe, Gaykley, Steinmart, The Capitan aka The Erwinator aka Muffin Tops, Bivers aka BE-LO, Tivers aka TAI-BO, The Dude aka Boner, Shegas, Lagbehind aka The Viper, Kama aka little bit aka 80 pound, The Flyin Hawaiian.

Extended Forecast Outlook:

Good morning Donkeys;

So I came across this deal this morning. $50 and free shipping for a 160 GB external hard drive. I should have enough storage space but if you think you are going to get a ton of photos and want to go home with ALL of them, I suggest you bring some extra storage. Here is a link to the deal. This is only good today.
Maxtor 160GB External Hard Drive
Lots of other options out there but this is just one I saw this morning.

So this morning I was finally able to align my travel plans with Ford’s. We are traveling to and from Singapore on on the Airbus A340/345. The Airbus A340/345 plane is considered the best plane in Singapore Air’s fleet. More than 50% of the Airbus A340/345 has seats that lie flat. Unfortunately it is a raffle system to receive these seats. Either way all of the seats on the Airbus A340/345 have extra leg room and there is only one column of seats where you will be in there middle. So even though we are not as lucky as you all to fly direct (with a stop over) to Kuala Lumpur, we get to fly exec. Below is a comparison of our planes. You can find more info at Seat Guru

Singapore Airlines Seating Chart for Airbus A340/345		Malaysian Airlines Your Flight

If you are looking for me in the morning over the next few days… I will be at campgrounds.

I am even rolling back my in-water deadline to 5:30am, so I can get a solid session in before work.

Winds look good, swell looks good, and I need some good sessions before my sales trip at the end of the week. So, if you want to join, you know where to go, I’ll be there.

Make it a great week.

Costa Rica was barely even a warm up for the great surf you guys are going to catch in Indo. I was telling The Smythe how a trip to Indo will spoil all of your future surf trips. They will be more like vacations with some surfing. I can relate it to having sex with a condom vs. without a condom. Still great, but just not the same.

Here is a picture of Chris warming up on a super fast (barely makable) beach break.

Hey Guys:

We have 5 rooms reserved here http://www.theambacanghotel.com/
On July 7th and 19th of July.

Cost around $80 per night per room