Author: Paloma Velasquez

Paloma is a writer for Gathering Waves. She has been surfing for over a decade + traveling all over the world in search for new waves and cultures. Having immigrated from her home country of Colombia to the US when she was young, she never quite felt like she had found her forever home. Therefore, in November 2022, she decided to sell everything she owned in California and set out on the adventure South in search of a place to settle. As a goofy footer, she quickly fell in love with Nicaragua (the land of lefts) and bought some land to one day build her dream house on. While her travels are far from over, she is happy to have found her homebase and loves sharing knowledge from every wave and place she visits so that others can have a positive experience too!