After surfing I return to my hotel before hunting down breakfast. It’s later in the day and not many places are serving it anymore let alone just a bowl of fruit. My hotel is within a five minute walk to the beach, the very reason I chose it. I wander...

Sometimes what we need arrives in a surprise package, like the guy who sits next to you on a tiny boat in the Caribbean ocean, on an overly expensive trip you had no intention of taking even as the determined salesman sells you the ticket. He’s a guy who makes...