To get his head straight again, Woodman lit out on a surf odyssey through Australia and Indonesia, one last big trip before what he figured would become a life of comfortable middle-class monotony.

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Melissa Pierce is a recovering Chicago life coach who loves to interrupt the monotony of the everyday with irreverently silly adventures and meaningful short term projects.

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