Thu 9 Jul 2026 • Blake Crist

SYB Amalfi Coast 2026

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One trip, summed up in two words: finding oneself.

I booked this trip two days before it started, nervous I had made a mistake.

But I began meeting my new friends at our layover on the way to Naples, through the group chat that the great leadership at SYB had already set up. You see, here at SYB they have a saying. It literally brings us all together. Regardless of your situation, your comfort zone, your age, gender, personality, whatever it is. At some point you have to stop thinking and just do. Step out and take a chance for you.

Don't think. Just do.

Golden hour on a Positano rooftop.

I am so happy I did. Not only did I leave the country for the first time on my own, as a man in my early 40s, but I made 40 new friends in a breathtaking country filled with an itinerary that kept us going. Workouts. Boat days. Hiking to a private beach club. A special dinner. The culture and history of the area. The list goes on. It was all strategically put together by the SYB team so we could just do.

Boat days off the coast of Positano.

Sunrise sweat, and aperitivo hour somewhere between islands.

Again, I booked this trip two days before. I had an idea it was going to be a once in a lifetime experience. What I didn't know was this: the people you meet, the relationships that develop, the way the others who booked connect with you, it is mesmerizing.

I had the honor of meeting each of them. But on the last evening I realized they had experienced the same thing about me. I went on this trip as a man in search of finding himself again. And while I was on it, because of the leadership, the resort staff, and the strangers who became all my new friends, I was able to truly let go and find myself again. Thank you, SYB.

SYB, I see you. Thank you for seeing ME.

Forty strangers. One coastline. One family.

Bring yourself just the way you are. Be ready to be wild-hearted, open-minded, and down for everything. I promise you, you will be touched in a way that words could never fully capture.