sand castles

Otis and I spent about an hour watching the sunset last night, building sand castles. The weather has been great, the surf has been great, life in general has been great. I'm pretty tired from surfing so I'm having a 3pm cruda to wake me up, that should help. Town is pretty dead, the surf camp is packed. This Saturday alone the surf camp has 15 dropoffs and 28 pickups, the house is going to be rocking. I'm feeling really fortunate as the rest of Tamarindo is really slow. I can't say THANK YOU enough to all of our supporters, guests that come back again and again. We appreciate you immensly, you are making all of this possible. Thank you.

So, about my interns... well, Tommy had to be driven to San Jose in an ambulance to have his appendix removed before it burst, so that was interesting. They've been giving English classes to our employees, which has made them very popular at work. I've gotten them surfboards and lessons and expect that in three months we will have turned them into surfing machines. Does anyone know how long you have to wait to go in the water after losing an appendix? just curious.

The waves have been excellent, I'm so stoked. It just doesn't get old. This whole surfing thing, I'm really starting to like it. In-and-out little right-hand tubes off of the tamarindo rivermouth, nothing like surfing your home break and getting exceptional waves. I'm glowing from 2 hours of sick surf this AM. The last few days have been great, the wind finally went onshore today for the first time since well before those wind storms from last week. Right now its high tide and there are some fun waves rolling in, I'm just too tired to surf. Its nice to see great waves and hardly anybody surfing.

Mark Tucker and his skate posse from Atlanta are in town, skating the local skate park and going to some big skate park tomorrow somewhere near Arenal. I'm going to put a bunch of videos and pics from their trip on the blog in the next couple of days.

Anyone want a 1986 VW Westfalia? The one that was living in front of the camp for the last 18 months. Its the same year that VW released the Syncrho and you could pretty easily switch out the transmission for a 4WD transmission. Just think, a 1986 VW Westfalia 4x4 as your surfing vessel in Costa Rica. I wish I wasn't so busy but I am, otherwise I'd be doing the work and gearing up this van. The van runs but needs some minor work, but it already has import taxes paid. I bought the van from some Canadians that drove it down from Ontario. It can be yours for $4000 or just offer me $3500 because I'd take it. But don't offer me any less because I'll say no. You could offer me $3800 and I'd say yes to that too. Or trade me for something, that could be fun.