relax, rewind

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 on my couch and definitely without having to learn twenty buttons on two different controllers. Sometimes you just want to turn your brain off. or at least I do.

Here is the view out of my kitchen window in OB. I've been living groundhog day this last week. I always disappear when I return to SD to see my family, this time was no exception, except that we're staying on Abbott street. We're back to living in one of the one-bedroom cottages that we rent out (www.theoceanbeachcottages.com) while we pack up our belongings and I move the wife, two kids, dog, and plenty of luggage back to Costa Rica to our house in Avellanas. So for the last week my kids and wife get the bed while I get the couch, which is fine as I'm always the last to go to sleep.
I've spent most of the day today going through a grip of boxes my folks dropped off at my house when I was in Costa Rica. Everything ranging from books I had in middle school through photos from college, old tapes of our band in high school Tripple Nipple, ten year old parking tickets, moldy valentines day candy, a Sega Genisis, old school GameBoy, a f$%king Colieco Vision + Atari video game system with tons of games like Pitfall, Frogger and Qbert - couldn't believe it. I found an actual "Ross the Boss - Perot for President" tshirt, wasn't that 1992? I found photos of Adrea Allan and I at senior prom, she incredibly died a few years ago in a freak skydiving accident (no joke). Tons of college text books and notebooks with the funniest notes ever, just the most ridiculous stuff. Tons of photos, tons of bad haircuts, the best one of my dad looking like Jeremiah Johnson. Going through this stuff that had been packed for so long made me stoked in the way a horrible 80s movie does (like pretty much anything with Steve Guttenberg in it, who is just awful). Its like "holy crap that seems like forever ago", but I'm sure I'll look at photos of myself ten years from now and wonder why I was always wearing basketball shorts. The whole packing stuff for a garage sale got me reminded about when I was living on Cass and Law St and we sold everything we didn't take with us to Costa Rica the first time, this song kindof sums the feeling
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I couldn't be happier with living in Costa Rica again. Its been seven and a half years of living there, pretty important years of our lives too, so living in Costa Rica and working on the surf camp and all, life has just turned into a Central American one. The boys get free spanish lessons, I don't have to make as much money just to spend it on stupid shit anyways. I just want to surf, and whatever is going to allow for that to happen is what I'm going to do. This mantra has gotten me this far, so far so good. Holly says we have nothing in common and all I want to do is surf. In all fairness she's kindof right. Again, it got us this far. Guess we have to decide if she can deal with a pirate. argh pegleg hook for a hand and scuuuuuuuurvy!... I took the liquor store by storm around 11pm and ate two chipwhiches last night. And like 8 beers, maybe more? I chilled with Muzzy, we rode bikes down Newport to Nico's taco shop, he fell asleep on the couch (normally ok, but now its my bed). Its been hot day and night, so chilling on the porch in the evenings, its been pretty chill. Everyone is on the beach here in San Diego. Our other two cottages are packed, people driving from Lake Havasu or Riverside, just wanting to chill on the beach for a few days. I don't blame them, its been awesome. Otis has been able to chill on the porch until around 9pm when he finally goes down. Its super warm, so he chills with me in just a diaper saying Hi and Hola to people cruising by. OB is great, half of the people on bikes want to ride them, the other half have to ride them, its just classic. I've already logged two breakfast burritos from the Pier Cafe and a few sandwhiches from Casanovas on Abbott St.

There has been tons of surf. The OB Jetty was GOING OFF Friday night, I saw some huge barrels but unfortunately not from inside the tube I surfed Law Street in PB yesterday, so I've been kindof MIA. Remember those new shortboards I was selling a couple of weeks ago? They're now "slightly used, only a couple of times, still for sale". I found myself at a keg party after my surf (not really sure how that always happens), Larry McKinney was there. I met Ed, a long-time local of Wilbur/Crystal Drive in north PB, down the street where I used to live at 4920 Crystal.

I need some help. I need a home for my dog Gus. He is a great dog, he just needs more attention than we can give him. With two kids and a crazy schedule, its hard. I took him to Dog Beach this morning for about an hour, he loves chilling out in the ocean. He is a great guard dog and great with kids, we've had him with both Otis and Happy as newborns. He is 85-90 pounds or so, so we're talking about someone with a yard (even though he'll follow you around and not go far anyways). Please let me know if someone can help, we are looking to move next weekend and I'm planning on taking him with us unless the right situation arises. It will break my heart but I'm grown up enough to realize I suck at being a dog owner, Gus deserves better.

Here is my list of things I'm selling, let me know who wants what- 17inch iMac desktop, keyboard/mouse $700 - 2 used WR longboards, $450 each - nice 6'8 WR thruster $400 - very nice 6'5 WR thruster $375 (both next-to-new) - some Ikea desks - Uncle Rico's van - the list goes on. I'm trying to simplify life as much as possible. I will rent you my truck or Holly's Scion, or just take over the payments. I cannot deal with buying more crap. I'm happier living out of a couple of suitcases instead of having a basement full of unopened christmas presents, I do not want all of this crap. In an attempt to rewind back to an earlier time in the surf camp I've decided that I'm going to start guiding surf trips more often. I announced the August 8-17 Costa Rica / Panama tour on Thursday night's newsletter postcard and got a dozen requests for 4 spots within 24 hours. I. I still haven't contacted everyone back yet (John O, Rob Cohen, Ralph Tommy and Dan I will email you shortly). Obviously there aren't enough spaces for everyone, so I can put you on a waiting list for the next trip but the next trips aren't back to CR/Panama due to the swell season. The first trip is a 5 day NW Costa Rica tour in late July. The second trip is a 7 day Peru trip (same wave as with the WR Surf Team, the Terminator and Rolling Stone). This tour has a few interested parties already, can accommodate a few more guests due to it's location in the middle of nowhere, and is planned tentatively for Novemer 8-15. This is the best part of the job, so lets go surf. I hope everyone is getting enough time outside and away from the computer (I have a love/hate thing with mine). If you're in SD come by and say hi, we'll be here for about a week, otherwise you'll find me down south pura - vida - joe
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Happy Fathers Day

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 be MIA for a little while... ...

How freaking cute is baby Happy??


and then of course there's Otis


Singing this song, headphones on, unaware to the rest of the world, probably singing out loud (thanks for the heads up Amber, good tunes indeed). The next post is from Ocean Beach 92107.
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guess I'm waiting to see if I'm flying to SD Sunday

Joe (to reservations office):
Please call Continental and change this ticket to Sunday June 15
thanks, 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 was seriously injured by a crocodile in a freak surfing accident, so I was in a bad state, and although I wanted to cancel my ticket the phone in my hospital room didn't work so I couldn't call to cancel the ticket. Hopefully that will work
thanks
Joe

another day at the office

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 as the sun burns out the photo, but its a great way to keep one eye on the computer and another on the surf. The only difference is that now I've got a lot of surfboards in the rack outside of the office, which is great as many people come into the camp and don't realize that we have boards or rent them out. Dave Levy is our shaper from Rhode Island, he does some amazing shapes. I'm hoping to get work things organized enough to a point this summer where I can fly Dave down and I can start shaping boards here at the camp. I have a shaping room all ready. We've just started with the high-end ding repair at WRSC, I'm working with Pauly, the big Hawaiian tandem surfer thats all over the surf reports lately. He's living in town now and wants to stay. He used to have a ding repair business in Waikiki and has brought some quality ding repair skills to Tamarindo, so now I'm giving him some work space at WRSC and offering the service through our shop. We still are pretty ghetto at the camp (probably the reason so many folks dig hanging out here as its roots), doing whatever we have to do to survive. The air conditioning in room 2 started to fail today, and Alex, my maintenance guy and overall savior for WRSC maintenance issues, inspects the machine. He pulls out the circuit board and brings it to me, doing this because just two days ago we were sitting in the Gollo Mas Gollo buying a new AC for my office and me asking him if I could send him to AC technical classes so I could stop paying for AC servicemen whenever something went wrong. Anyways, he pulls out the circuit card and is explaining to me that normally one can repair a faulty card by heating it with a hair dryer for a couple of minutes. Only in Costa Rica, right? The thing is, we don't have any hair dryers at the camp (fyi for those high maintenance chicks with lots of hair) so I find him out in front heating the thing below the muffler of a microbus. classic. of course. I love it. I'm pretty much missing my family by this point, its been almost three weeks. Holly thinks I'm never coming back. There was a massive flea invasion of our house since I left so thats going to be a great homecoming. I was told "Happy Father's Day" today, which made me realize that finally I can stop bitching about there not being a Kid's Day and can in fact have a day where I sit on my ass and drink beer. Too bad there isn't NFL yet. I found myself playing sudoku with myself at about midnight last night, thinking of my good friend Stephen Monticone who is somewhere in Utah at the moment. Then I started thinking about my good friend James who goes to sleep at 8pm and started wondering if I was getting to the age where I was supposed to go to bed at a normal hour. That lasted about a second. I guess I'm a night owl. I just finished playing some open mic in the bar, Lyle is ringing an old school STP song at the moment (did I ever tell you I was in the Wicked Garden video? do a youtube search and you'll see). Lakers are up, Celtics are down, its not raining, I could use a shower, not much else to report from the surf camp at present.

surf is still firing

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 at our outer reef.





I'm not sure how big it was, this wave was definitely bigger than me. There were some bombs that were a lot bigger, about double overhead. Earlier in the morning it was higher tide and mellower, then the tide went out and the waves really started to jack up and barrel. I got really worked on my last wave, a big, fast barreling bomber, I was pretty tired after three hours of surfing. I can't remember wiping out as bad as I did on that wave in a long time, and to make matters worse my rashguard got pulled off of me and tangled around my neck and over my face. I had to tear it off underwater, then it was really dark and I wasn't sure which way us up because I was so far underwater and all turned around. Thankfully my leash didn't come off so I was able to pull on it and guide my way to the surface. Luis and Rodrigo thought I was dead or something. Then the same thing happened to Rodrigo on the next wave, as if ma nature was telling us it was time to get back to the surf camp for breakfast. That was a great way to start off the week, probably really different than most people's Monday morning commutes and board meetings. I want some feeback for future advertising ideas, check out the new magazine ad that we're running in Transworld Surf and tell me if you like it or hate it, or if you could give a shit. Any feedback is good, you can't hurt my feelings. Jane Bocker took our bus artwork and created it, she is really talented as a graphic artist and a great person overall. We had to submit to Transworld today, but we're going to submit to ESM and Drift and a couple others in the next week, check it out, I think its pretty sweet.

I'm really happy that so many people have offered to bring me things from the US. I'm still needing a new laminating machine, like the one found here- https://www.laminator.com/Product_Details~ProductID~327~P~GBC-HeatSeal-H210-9.5-inch-Photo-Quality-Pouch-Laminator-.htm
I know its funny that I am requesting things like this, but seriously this thing is $79 in the US with free shipping and $250 in Costa Rica. It adds up. I will give you nachos in exchange for giving me laminator, do we have a deal anyone? :-) Bill and Emily? Shane Lincke, thank you hooking us up, we can definitely add this to your bar tab. I'm waiting to find out about the RPMs of the polisher, will let you know later today. If you guys haven't been paying attention, we're getting slammed with surf (that is a good thing by the way). There is another swell looking to hit this next weekend. Stoked. The only bummer is that my family is 4000 miles away and I'm here, but by the end of the month we'll have moved out of our rented house in SD and they will be back down here full time. I'm waiting it out, doing whatever I can to improve things at the camp and generally hold down the fort. We are opening up a tour center in the downstairs office, which is great for me as I'll get a chance to be on the floor full time now and talk to our guests, help people with advanced surfboard repairs, boat trips to Witch's and Ollie's, advice on where to surf at any given time, post more surf reports more often, make sure the bar always has enough rum and so on.
My mom sent me this photo of Otis yesterday, I thought it was too cute not to share it with the world. Call me one of those types of parents, I don't care-

I look at this photo and I say "holy shit, I'm getting old!". Otis looks nothing like the baby he's supposed to be, then I realize how fast life really goes by and how lucky I am to have such a great family. Otis obviously gets his sense of clothing style from his pops. pura vida- joe

anyone coming to Tamarindo?

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 can help. They for sure sell this at Fiberglass Hawaii, there is a location in Southern California. Let me know thanks!
joe

tico hendrix lives

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 if I wanted to be "happy happy" it was ok with her. At least I'm assuming she was a prostitute. I was minding my own business at the bar, eating a crocodile roll from the sushi bar, she comes up and tells me this. Maria my bartender started busting up laughing, I got all embarrassed like a little boy and quickly finished my sushi and disappeared to my office. That was my Sunday night event. Ever listen to Vampire Weekend? Filling my ears with noise as I've heard every Tico Hendrix song known to man, heres a sweet b side- I%20Stand%20Corrected.mp3 that is unless I'm just again living in the jungle and Vampire Weekend is on MTV twenty million times a day. I'd really have no idea. I just found them after my friend Matt Neal told me to check them out, thank you limewire, thank you Vampire Weekend. Have you watched the Borat movie? I had. For some reason, I thought it was funny, but it didn't stand out as being in-my-face funny. Then last night, as I sat at home alone watching that dvd because I have no cable, I realized how funny it was. It was great to fall asleep watching it, except for when I woke up at 3am and that freaky Borat eastern-Euro anthem song was playing on the dvd menu, it gave me bad dreams about being in New York and having dudes with guns chasing me all over. I turned into the guy from the Transporter and had to rely on my expert kung fu to get me out of all kinds of bad situations. I guess you had to be there. Now that I'm living in Avellanas again (yes, could you believe I'd get sick of living above the bar?), even though I have thick curtains the sun pours in and wakes me up at 530am. I hate it. I love it. I love it more than I hate it. I've been sleeping in a cave, literally my room above the bar has no windows. Its depressing. I can sleep for hours and constantly question my alarm clock's accuracy around 7am, 715am, 730am, etc. By 9am I figure it must be right. In Avellanas I'm up at 6, ready to... well.... ready to surf. I still have no food in my fridge, I don't even have coffee filters, so basically its sleep, bottled water, Borat, and surfing sick waves in the rivermouth. This morning the swell had filled in big time, the rivermouth was overhead. I surfed my buddy Pat McNulty's surfboard. Some might say I stole it, I looked at it as borrowing, anyways, the waves were pretty big and good and I got some BOMBS. A great way to spend an early Sunday morning. I called Pat up later today to tell him about the surf, and the fact I surfed his board, he tells me he's bringing down a new one next month and that I can have this one. Sweet. Yes, I know I have tons of rental boards, and they're nice, but there is something about a super progressive longboard that makes me stoked. 10ft surf and charging. I like to mix it up between the longboard and the shortboard, lately its been longboard. I'm spending the night at WRSC tonight and waking up for the 6am tour, we're taking the boat and going to "that" offshore reef that is so good it deserves that we never mention it by name online. Its going to be good, and pretty big hopefully. I have the waterproof camera charged up with the plan of sharing some footage with ya'll soon. There is tons of swell right now, thats always a good thing. I am missing my family, I have two boys that I'd love to be chilling with right now, a few hours at a time seems to be the most I can get away at the moment. Maybe I'll fly to San Diego this week for a few days? Guess it depends on work, more waves means more work. I'm stoked to have a job that relies on mother nature as much as mine does.

bushwack

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 finca.  

 

I was there with my partner Chris as well as a new friend and work colleague named Bradd. Bradd is a zip line construction consultant, he's built zip lines all over the world.  We flew him down and spent a couple of days designing the zip line course that Chris and I are about to build.

  

I would never consider doing something like this without a consultant involved.  His company not only oversees the construction but performs the training of the employees, normally scheduled safety inspections of the zip lines and equipment to name a couple of them.  He said that this would be one of, if not the biggest project he's ever been a part of.  We're planning six zip lines, with the mother of them all being a half-mile zip line from one mountain top peak to another with about 300 feet below your feet.  I suggested to offer the Zephyr diaper as its going to be crazy, a biodegradable diaper that you later bury and a tree grows.  that was a joke. Anyways, again we were on horses and touring the finca, the clouds opened up and torrential rains started to pour down.  A LOT of water.  I'm surprised my phone didn't break.  We worked through it, then Chris and Bradd were taking the horses back to my neighbor Berny and I was driving the truck out of the finca.  There is one spot in the road where the guy who cut the road a year and a half ago went over the edge and almost died, in other words he didn't finish the road.  It was here that I, in an attempt to stay on the inside part of the road, got my tire stuck in a ravine that swallowed up my truck.  With no way of getting the truck out during the storm, I hiked back to Berny's house.  Berny has this old-school Toyota landcruiser pickup and offered to drive us back to Tamarindo.  As we got back to the river crossing on the way from Alemainia to La Florida, the river that was a foot deep had swelled to over a meter high.  Berny charged it, the truck did great regardless of the fact that water was entering from under the doors and into the cab.  It was pretty sweet actually, bushwacking it in the back country of CR, thinking of how I'm always getting myself stuck in the most obscure parts of this country and experiencing things most people never get a chance to experience.  I sent back three of my drivers yesterday and they got the truck unstuck, but now I've got a sound coming from the front-right corner and have to take it in to the Dodge dealer, bummer.  I'm planning to take off, perhaps with Johan, Ricardo and Luis, and drive to Pavones for this HUGE south swell that is about to hit-  check out the report-

So, after the truck gets repaired, I'm taking off.  This work stuff is fun and all, but all I really have on my mind right now is surfing.  I think it would be wise to get this swell, then go back to San Diego and sell some surfboards to continue this surf life.  Since the boards are in SD, if anyone up there needs a board, I've got plenty, you can buy them or rent them if you're in town while staying at the Ocean Beach Cottages (www.theoceanbeachcottages.com)

Prices vary, check my last blog for details.  I'm also selling my truck and looking for a home for my dog.  That sounds like the beginning of a good country song, don't it?

Here's a pic from Luis Castro's fundraiser so we can pay for his knee surgery.  We have already raised $2500 and need only another $1000 to go!  He is VERY stoked to know so many people care so much (including my dad who spent the time to organize the event), thank you all very much for your contributions :-)  PURA VIDA

sunburned and surf stoked - and selling tons of boards

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 of trees fallen everywhere and overflowing rivers, just another heavy rain in Central America I guess.  With the size of the swell hitting on Thursday, a group of tour guests went with Carlos up to Playa Flamingo in one of the new vans, just to get out of town and see something new.  They didn't bring boards, figuring it was going to suck, but instead it was reeling, perfect barrels at one of our secret points.  The rain broke on Friday and it has been awesome since.  I have surfed about 8 hours over three days, taking in way too much sun.   I have to wear sunglasses in my office because my eyes are red from surfing, and I don't want my employees to think I'm just hammering away on my laptop stoned. TOTALLY SUNBURNED.  It even hurts to smile.  But the waves have been really good all over.  My longboard is about to break, and even though we have a lot of boards at the camp for rent or for sale there is something to be said about having a board shaped for you, one that you ride all of the time, and then when its time to say goodbye it just sucks.  That just happened to me on Thursday with my laptop as well (the reason for no blog until now).  During Tropical Alma's throwdown the electricity surged and my laptop went dead.  I was destroyed.  I've spent the last three years of my life with that computer, it was like having a girlfriend break up with me.  Maybe worse.  But then I thought "you know Joe, you've been talking about that Mac Air for a few months now...".  I checked the WRSC schedule and sure enough 6x returning champ Mike Oldani from Grapevine Texas was flying down Saturday (yesterday).  A couple of phone calls later, a lot of patience for 48 hours, Mike shows up with a new mac air laptop and I'm now up to speed, taking over where I left off with a new computer.  I told myself about a year ago to start to use Google docs so that when something like this happened I wouldn't lose all of my data.  I was amidst working on a google doc when it happened, and it was safe in internetlandia where I found it again a few minutes later on another computer.  OK,  enough about my laptop.  I now have a new laptop love, one that is much smaller and lighter and hopefully nicer to my back while traveling in my backpack.  You can tell that its now the low season in Tamarindo.  Part of me is like "oh shit, need to make money to pay bills" and part of me is like "this is so awesome to go surf and not have hardly anyone out in the water!".  There are monkeys that have been chilling in the trees in front of the restaurant on the beach all day, as if to come out and enjoy some sun rays now that most of the tourists have gone for the time being.

Getting to the topic of SURFBOARDS.  Who wants to buy one?  I've had three emails and people have also called WRSC asking about the boards I have for sale in San Diego.  Here are some pics along with their prices:

9'1 WRSC longboard LIKE NEW.  This board has been ridden about ten times.  I had it shaped for that cross-country driving trip to Nova Scotia that ended a little bit short of destination in Bangor Maine.  The board has some width to it and is great for small to mid-size waves.  The wax needs to be cleaned, otherwise its like new.

$475

6'8 Witch's Rock surfboard.  BRAND NEW.  Never ridden.  I brought this board up for the ASR trade show.  It is more of a big-guy board or gun for a normal shortboarder.  This board would be ideal at Blacks.  This board retails for $525 + tax at the surf camp.

$450

6'5 Witch's Rock shortboard.  BRAND NEW.  

A great board for someone who surfs regularly.

$450  (Retails for $500 at WRSC)

9'5 Witch's Rock longboard  BRAND NEW.  This board retails for $800 at WRSC.  It has a "slight" ding on the tail from the airplane ride from CR to SD.  This was for the surf expo, its a beautiful board.  It has a wide tail and is wide/thick, perfect for Tourmaline or La Jolla Shores surfers.

$625

6'8 KG shortboard.  This board is in very good shape.  I bought it for $475 from South Coast in PB, went on a surf trip to Peru, surfed epic waves with it, and still have it packed from that trip.  This board is perfect for waist-high through well overhead waves.  I have ridden it in close to double overhead conditions at a fast point break and it was unreal.  (ps  the best way to pack a board for a trip is pipe insulation taped around the rails)

$425

Remember that even though all of these boards are in San Diego, I can throw them in the mail and have them to you in a couple of days.  It is much easier to send boards within the US than to ship them from Costa Rica!  Since we are moving out of our house, we have plenty of things that we're selling besides boards, so let me know if you're interested.  I have two iMac desktop computers, they are refurbished from Apple, one is literally still in the box from when it was shipped to us.  They have huge monitors, they're $750 each.  We have a 97 Jetta for sale for $3500 and then there is our Uncle Rico van.

You can own the famous van that crossed the United States two years ago, followed by surf photographer Jamie Bott living in it for three months two winters ago while traveling California.  The van has a sink, stove, fridge, two captain chairs and a couch.  I installed 3 deep cell batteries so it can provide electricity for a couple of days at a campsite without plugging in.  It has a furnace for those cold trips.  The engine is very strong, as you know these rvs never get driven much so its in great shape.  You can fit multiple surfboards and snowboards inside of it.  I'd rather not sell it, if someone has another idea let me know, otherwise its for sale for $4000.  

We have a lot of other stuff that we're selling as well, too much to name, so if you're in SD and need furniture or kid's stuff, let me know.  I'm packing my family up and moving them back to Costa Rica now that baby Happy is four months old today.  Taking time off and living in San Diego has been nice, but honestly it is hard to beat the life one lives somewhere like Costa Rica.  I am just wanting to simplify life as much as humanly possible and I don't need these things, so help me out :-)

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