The Thoughtful Travel Podcast · Wednesday, July 1, 2026
Tim Gaysler describes a surf trip in Costa Rica where he and a friend slept in their board bags due to heavy rain. They attempted to build a temporary hut from palm fronds, which proved ineffective, and were bothered by crabs crawling into their bags at night.
“So we decided to, uh, to kind of play survivor and we tried weaving palm fronds together to make a temporary hut over ourselves. It was not very, not very dry.”
“And we had these little kind of orange and purple crabs that kept crawling up into our board bags and you would wake up just feeling something on you and freaking out.”