Surf The World Tour - Woodrow Pack Landfair's 2026-2027 Performance & Appearance Schedule

One Fool's Quest To Surf Every Coastal Nation on Earth aka The Road Journals & Surf Journals Tour 

Surf Journals Vol. 1: One Fool's Quest Surf Every Coastal Nation On Earth, Woodrow Pack Landfair
 “An evening of road stories, a short reading, guitar and harmonica, and conversation about starting whatever you’ve been waiting to write, learn, build or explore—before anyone offers help or approval.”

2026 & 2027 USA Appearance & Performance Schedule :

  • May 12, 2026, 7pm El Porto Surf Shop, Road Journals Stories & Songs, El Porto, CA

  • June 21, 2026, 6pm Sloopy's Beach Cafe, Road Journals Stories & Songs, Manhattan Beach, CA

  • June 25, 2026, 9am CBS TV, Richmond, VA

  • Oct 7, 2026, 6pm Pages Bookstore, Road Journals Stories, Songs + Q&A Manhattan Beach, CA

  • Oct 21, 2026, TBA Road Journals Stories, Songs + surf sesh, Waco, TX

  • Oct 27, 2026, TBA Surf Station Surf Shop, + surf sesh, Surfside Beach, TX

  • Nov 5, 2026, 6pm Porto First Thursday, El Porto, CA 

  • Nov 16, 2026, TBA -- Foley, Alabama

  • Dec 5, 2026, 10am Road Journals Stories & Songs + Q&A, Southwest Manuscript Writers Association, Redondo Beach Public Library,  Redondo Beach, CA

  • Jan 14, 2027, TBA Road Journals Stories & Songs + Q&A + surf sesh, Pensacola, FL

  • March 7, 2027, TBA + surf sesh, Mesa, AZ

  • June 8, 2027, TBA Surf Journals Vol. 1 Release Show

  • 2027 Global dates and locations TBA

 

About the Surf The World Tour

American road storyteller and El Porto Surf Shop owner Woodrow "Pack" Landfair is 50 states and 19 countries deep in an indefinite quest to surf every coastal nation on earth - as a means of meeting people and experiencing their cultures. He books the trips last minute, with no advance study -  usually a same-day, one-way ticket - knowing he may have to return to the surf shop at any moment. Typically the surf shop staff does not even know he left, until he returns 5-10 days later - often with stories of the stranger's cousin who took him in, the surfboards he had to borrow, the unreported political opinions he overheard, or the bits of some language he had to learn in order talk his way onto a train to the airport to get home. 

An author, musician (and former stunt double/ producer for global superstar Ronald McDonald), Landfair performs for audiences - scheduled, and unscheduled - at bookstores, coffeeshops, hostels, theaters, surf shops, and surf spots everywhere he visits.


Woodrow "Pack" Landfair in Brazil, 2019.The "Surf The World" quest is inspired by El Porto Surf Shop's traveling customers, as well as Landfair's 2006-2007 48 state motorcycle odyssey, which he pawned his NCAA Championship ring to fund. The gamble paid off. In 2025 alone, El Porto Surf Shop rented surfboards or provided surf lessons to surfers from all 50 states and over 90 countries.

Woodrow "Pack" Landfair with Bruce Chambers and the Endless Summer book
The first 19 countries (2017-2024) of that journey makeup Surf Journals Vol. 1, in bookstores 2027. The travelogue is the sequel to Landfair's 2026 motorcycle memoir, Road Journals: 48 States. One Ride. Available at bookstores everywhere. 

States visited in surf bus so far: 47

Countries surfed so far: 19

Woodrow Pack Landfair with friends in Jamaica, 2021