Not going anywhere. Not stopping. Not quitting. If anything I'll be traveling after second semester is done in may for a few months with a serious fat stack from tax returns and a school return date of Aug 24th. I'll send you a postcard, how's that sound? Haters gonna hate. New Zealand is nice in June right? Aus? SE Asia? I'll be able to hit them all.
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1) Thule racks (waxy roof/buckle dent problem solved) 2) Buy a dust brush at Home Depot (toss the pan) use the brush to brush things off before you get in the car. 3) Get the rubbermaid tubs suggested above for wet/sandy stuff transport. 4) Bring a gallon jug filled with tap water. Use it to rinse your feet, stand on one foot, bend knee 90°, pour water on back of heel, sand rinses off your foot, repeat for other foot.
Lately 3-4 times a week. It's been good. When I started I was out there more in the AM before work catching whitewater and whatever else there was even if it was garbage. I've been out when it's choppy and junk waiting for anything worth paddling into. Only recently I've been getting a bit pickier. So yeah, 6 months, at the very least twice a week if there was anything worth paddling out to. As of late, whenever I'm not in class/clinicals. I get my time in. This isn't some casual pickup game for me. I'm going to stay at it right thru the winter. I dgaf about cold anymore.
one time i bought a ticket to oz/goldcoast. got there and it was 30ft cyclone swell...kept sayin to myself: well, you wanted surf...go get it. scared down to my scivvies i hit up the pub instead.
Baddy, the first day I got my hands on a board in Punta Hermosa was a big day. Not 30ft of course (I would run scared at 15) but it was significantly OH and larger than anything I've tried to surf. I paddled out at La Isla and the current had it's way with me. After an hour and a half of near constant paddling, I was back on the sand. I felt weak. My whole body hurt. 6 hours later I was in bed writhing in pain. 12 hours later I had a 103+ fever. 24 hours later I was in the hospital. First rule of Peruvian hospitals, DO NOT let them inject you with some sh*t that they don't use in the US! I had some sort of reaction to the medicine and woke up shaking, being held down, barely able to breathe. Couple days later I got to paddle out again, right before leaving. Half-decent, onshore, shoulder-high. I got a few but I couldn't escape the feeling of disappointment that you get from traveling a long ways to not really score...
According to my doctor, it was "un infección." That is the only description I got. They took my weight, but not my blood. So, yeah, I have no idea what it was. My pupils were dilated for days after, and a hard nub formed at the injection site; it just stopped itching recently. On the way back from the hospital we stopped and picked up four bottles of gatorade, I think I drank three in a row right when we got back to the hostel. I was still hallucinating, my GF says I was trying to roll out of bed and told her to "stop wiping chocolate on my face," haha. She was looking sh*t up online all day and crying cause she thought I might be a goner. She said she knew I was really f*cked up because I "wasn't complaining about anything" to her. Whatever it was, I hope I don't get it again. F*ck that ****. That experience gave me some perspective though.
First clean the sand out of your vag. Right now I really want to say to you in a high pitched voice "Oh no I have wax on my car and sand in it. omg!!!"
I've had a dedicated surf vehicle for a while now. Old car with low miles and made when you could get 500,000 out of a Toyota. Can crash in the back if it's too wretched to tent camp. It would be hard to go without it now. LOVE having the Surfmobile.
i have a friend who just got a hyundai santa fe ('04 i think). i swear that car is made for surfers, or any person who does any boardsport for that matter
I just joined this site after lurking for several months just so I could tell you to SHUT THE **** UP. You seem annoying as **** and I feel bad for the people that are forced to interact with you daily IRL. You're the worst kind of kook - you think you aren't one. Just learn to surf and keep your mouth shut. Things will go much more smoothly that way.