Matt East, 35, of Medford, rides a wave in the surf pool at Scott’s Pointe in Calverton Nov. 11. Credit: Rick Kopstein Head to this adventure park where you can hang 10 all year in the indoor surf ...

Surf travel—the hunt for a perfect wave—is a search for the sublime, a pursuit of fleeting transcendence, a journey into the fabled wilderness. The journey I took on a late February evening was no ...