I recently purchased an old school Nintendo system and a handful of games from the swapmeet. Its not that I didn’t like the Wii that Holly gave me, but Nintendo got me confused with someone who wanted to get off of his ass and play video games. I want to get through Piston Honda, Bald Bull and Soda Popinsky and eventually get my chance at Mike Tyson, but I want to do it while sitting …

I’m sitting in the Houston Airport impatiently waiting for my plane to San Diego. This will be the first time I actually feel worth of celebrating the holiday, missing my family. I just got these photos emailed to me last night, can’t wait to chill with the kids and have a Sierra Nevada in OB, having a small BBQ, hanging with my parents as well, tired of work and traveling, will rest tomorrow, plan to …

Joe (to reservations office): Please call Continental and change this ticket to Sunday June 15thanks, Joe Shawna:They said because you did not cancel your ticket, you will have to purchase another one. I did explain that your dad did this a couple of weeks ago but she said it depends on the ticket that you buy.Sorry about that one,Shawna Joe:Shawna,Please call back Continental tomorrow morning. Please tell them that I had a concussion because I …

Hi world, how are you doing today? Me? Oh I’m good thanks. I’ve just moved my office from upstairs to downstairs at the surf camp, makes me wonder why I didn’t do it sooner. Not only do I have a great view of the surf, but I have more time to talk to all of our guests and oversee operations better. Here’s a photo of what I see from my laptop-You can’t see the ocean …

I haven’t really had the time to figure out how this new version of iMovie works on my laptop, so I took a couple of frame grabs from one of the video clips of me surfing one of our secret spots yesterday (Monday AM) on the surf tour. I just love going out on the boat early in the morning when there is a lot of swell. There seem to be waves breaking everywhere, especially …

anyone coming to Tamarindo in the next few days and want to bring me down a polisher? This is for ding repair, so we can continue to be the absolute best spot in northwest Costa Rica to repair your surfboard. http://www.plumbersurplus.com/Prod/Milwaukee-5540-7-in-Polisher/63280/Cat/1286 You can buy this at Home Depot most likely, we also need diskits (fancy word for pads for glue-on sandpaper), two soft pads, two medium pads, and two hard pads. Who knows, perhaps you …

Tico Hendrix lives, alive and well, right now he’s somewhere between opera and led zepplin in the surf camp during the dinner shift. What a riot. The restaurant was packed tonight, which was a nice to see since it has become the official “low season” and pretty slow everywhere in town. After a few hours on my laptop I emerged downstairs for a couple of rum drinks, then a prostitute approached and told me that …

Part of the reason I enjoy living in Costa Rica more than the US is the unpredictability of life due to the obvious relationship one must keep with mother nature. Tropical storms, mudslides, huge swells with insane waves, empty surf breaks calling to be surfed, wild animals everywhere you turn, the list goes on. Having said that, here is a photo of me with my truck, stuck axel deep in a ravine within the Zephyr …

OK so I didn’t find out until Thursday night that what we were experiencing was actually a named storm, Tropical Storm Alma. That explains why the palm trees in front of the restaurant were sideways and the rain was pelting the roof and windows like rocks. I awoke at 3am Thursday morning and I swear I’ve not seen the weather that bad. Thursday was looking rough, the ocean was all mixed up. The news spoke …