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    OFF THE Leash

    Apr 01, 2022 3 minutes
    "As a kid, I would cover my schoolbooks with drawings of a perfect wave breaking off an empty palm-fringed beach. This was it."

    “Lo siento… you cannot take your surfboard on the plane.” With the exception of “adopt the brace position”, these are the most terrifying words anyone on a surf trip involving long-haul flights can hear.

    I had already brought my board on Turkish Airways all the way from Cape Town to Istanbul to Panama City and, from there, wedged sideways through a taxi window on a sphincter-clenching run to Albrook regional airport.

    My destination, Bocas

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