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I took my family up to Lake Arenal a couple of weekends ago for Holly's birthday. The tap water up there tastes fantastic by the way.
We did a bit of exploring, including a trek up to the giant windmills. Did you know that Costa Rica creates more than 95% of it's own energy through wind, geo-thermal and hydro-electric power? and that Costa Rica will be the first country in the world to become carbon-neutral by the year 2021? Just another of the zillions of reasons why I live here :-)
AWESOME DAD TRICK #217:
The bed of your pickup truck is the perfect playpen for a young child.
I'm on continental.com buying a plane ticket to San Diego for tomorrow. The audio in my Mac Air just stopped working, which is going to make my surf reports a little bit harder to record. I'll have to record a few on Holly's computer before I leave, so I can choose the ones that correspond to whats actually happening with the waves. Losing the audio on my computer means no music, no skype, no video thats worth watching. It is like losing an arm.
I'm going to the Board Retailers Summit this coming weekend in Huntington. I guess if it wasn't an industry like surfing or skating it would feel like work, but I'm pretty excited to check it out because its only going to help me do what I'm already doing even better. I have to go back to San Diego anyways as I'm FINALLY sending my Toyota Tundra to Costa Rica along with our first shipment of Boardworks surfboards. The Hynson BK Quad is the bomb, I'm getting some of them in various sizes for our guests. I'm also getting some Stewart and Ben Aipa longboards. Also some other stuff but its a surprise so you'll have to wait until the end of May.
This is the Toyota Tundra for WRSC International Surf Tours. My plan is to use this truck for the June Costa Rica - Panama surf tour led by Joe Walsh (aka me). The dates are June 10-20, and I have two spots remaining. You must fly in to San Jose, CR no later than 12pm on June 10th, and you can have a departure on the 20th of any time that you like. The cost is $2000 and includes all transportation, breakfast/lunch/dinner, Boardworks surfboard rentals, hotel accommodation for ten nights + all taxes. We'll be surfing some world class left point breaks as well as other reefs and beaches. The trip is INSANE just ask me for referrals from past tour guests if you have any doubts you'll have a good time.
Call Larry or Shawna at 1-888-318-SURF to sign up.
I'm committing the biggest surf sin by flying to San Diego while a big swell is about to hit Costa Rica this Wednesday. What a bummer that is going to be, especially when my buddy Dusty tells me its flat back in SD right now.
But wait, nevermind. Now that I've wasted even more time on the internet I take that back, the swell report actually looks pretty good for Southern California as by Thursday or so the same swell will hit up there- http://swellwatch.wetsand.com/#place=33.03629817885956_-118.4161376953125_8_2073_height_none_Sat_-1
I'm meeting with some of the guys from Skullcandy this week. As we expand the surf shop the plan is to have an entire Skullcandy display with tons of gear. The headphones they gave me are great, I'm rocking them right now :-)
A lot of you probably don't know that I went to art school and ended up getting a couple of degrees, one in film and one in music. I really like art and love when I get to work on creative things here at the surf camp. Right now we just launched our new menus, also we are designing some new things for the website, for shirts, stickers, and other random art projects. I found Hassan from Headhunters Studio, he has some serious skills. I like elements from these selections from his porfolio, check 'em out and then check out Hassan's website if you want to purchase a print or original painting.
Oh, remember the guy that emailed me complaining about how I was a bad role model and how the surf camp was a ripoff? He ended up emailing the surf camp last week and requesting a booking for his two kids to come to the surf camp. It felt like the Twilight Zone hearing that news!
Here's some more pics from the Arenal trip. Its really relaxing up there, and if I kite boarded or had any other reason to be on a lake instead of an ocean it would be perfect, but since there is no surf Arenal is a very temporary place for me.
They had a skate park at the hotel. It was surreal to be there, overlooking Lake Arenal, jungle graffiti and all.
Who wants to make beer (besides Larry and I)?
I found the guy with all of the brewing equipment and brewery location. Witch's Rock Surf Camp is ready to brew an IPA, something that doesn't yet exist in Costa Rica. Help us make it a reality. I think pretty much every other surf bar in the region would want it too. This business opportunity allows you to become part owner of the Costa Rican corporation ca"Tamarindo Brewing Company S.A." and partner up with folks like Larry and I. If this is what we must do to get a decent pale ale then this is what we must do.
Yesterday I spent the entire day chilling with my family and it was just great.
I'm going to miss them when I go to California this week, but the idea is to work hard for the next week, then come back to Costa Rica and hang out with my friends Andrew and Georgia Illing and the infamous John Cheshire. John and I have been friends for about 8 years, I haven't hung out with him for about 2 years, we're going to surf a ton. Life is good. pura vida.
We did a bit of exploring, including a trek up to the giant windmills. Did you know that Costa Rica creates more than 95% of it's own energy through wind, geo-thermal and hydro-electric power? and that Costa Rica will be the first country in the world to become carbon-neutral by the year 2021? Just another of the zillions of reasons why I live here :-)
AWESOME DAD TRICK #217:
The bed of your pickup truck is the perfect playpen for a young child.
I'm on continental.com buying a plane ticket to San Diego for tomorrow. The audio in my Mac Air just stopped working, which is going to make my surf reports a little bit harder to record. I'll have to record a few on Holly's computer before I leave, so I can choose the ones that correspond to whats actually happening with the waves. Losing the audio on my computer means no music, no skype, no video thats worth watching. It is like losing an arm.
I'm going to the Board Retailers Summit this coming weekend in Huntington. I guess if it wasn't an industry like surfing or skating it would feel like work, but I'm pretty excited to check it out because its only going to help me do what I'm already doing even better. I have to go back to San Diego anyways as I'm FINALLY sending my Toyota Tundra to Costa Rica along with our first shipment of Boardworks surfboards. The Hynson BK Quad is the bomb, I'm getting some of them in various sizes for our guests. I'm also getting some Stewart and Ben Aipa longboards. Also some other stuff but its a surprise so you'll have to wait until the end of May.
This is the Toyota Tundra for WRSC International Surf Tours. My plan is to use this truck for the June Costa Rica - Panama surf tour led by Joe Walsh (aka me). The dates are June 10-20, and I have two spots remaining. You must fly in to San Jose, CR no later than 12pm on June 10th, and you can have a departure on the 20th of any time that you like. The cost is $2000 and includes all transportation, breakfast/lunch/dinner, Boardworks surfboard rentals, hotel accommodation for ten nights + all taxes. We'll be surfing some world class left point breaks as well as other reefs and beaches. The trip is INSANE just ask me for referrals from past tour guests if you have any doubts you'll have a good time.
Call Larry or Shawna at 1-888-318-SURF to sign up.
I'm committing the biggest surf sin by flying to San Diego while a big swell is about to hit Costa Rica this Wednesday. What a bummer that is going to be, especially when my buddy Dusty tells me its flat back in SD right now.
But wait, nevermind. Now that I've wasted even more time on the internet I take that back, the swell report actually looks pretty good for Southern California as by Thursday or so the same swell will hit up there- http://swellwatch.wetsand.com/#place=33.03629817885956_-118.4161376953125_8_2073_height_none_Sat_-1
I'm meeting with some of the guys from Skullcandy this week. As we expand the surf shop the plan is to have an entire Skullcandy display with tons of gear. The headphones they gave me are great, I'm rocking them right now :-)
A lot of you probably don't know that I went to art school and ended up getting a couple of degrees, one in film and one in music. I really like art and love when I get to work on creative things here at the surf camp. Right now we just launched our new menus, also we are designing some new things for the website, for shirts, stickers, and other random art projects. I found Hassan from Headhunters Studio, he has some serious skills. I like elements from these selections from his porfolio, check 'em out and then check out Hassan's website if you want to purchase a print or original painting.
Oh, remember the guy that emailed me complaining about how I was a bad role model and how the surf camp was a ripoff? He ended up emailing the surf camp last week and requesting a booking for his two kids to come to the surf camp. It felt like the Twilight Zone hearing that news!
Here's some more pics from the Arenal trip. Its really relaxing up there, and if I kite boarded or had any other reason to be on a lake instead of an ocean it would be perfect, but since there is no surf Arenal is a very temporary place for me.
They had a skate park at the hotel. It was surreal to be there, overlooking Lake Arenal, jungle graffiti and all.
Who wants to make beer (besides Larry and I)?
I found the guy with all of the brewing equipment and brewery location. Witch's Rock Surf Camp is ready to brew an IPA, something that doesn't yet exist in Costa Rica. Help us make it a reality. I think pretty much every other surf bar in the region would want it too. This business opportunity allows you to become part owner of the Costa Rican corporation ca"Tamarindo Brewing Company S.A." and partner up with folks like Larry and I. If this is what we must do to get a decent pale ale then this is what we must do.
Yesterday I spent the entire day chilling with my family and it was just great.
I'm going to miss them when I go to California this week, but the idea is to work hard for the next week, then come back to Costa Rica and hang out with my friends Andrew and Georgia Illing and the infamous John Cheshire. John and I have been friends for about 8 years, I haven't hung out with him for about 2 years, we're going to surf a ton. Life is good. pura vida.
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1 Comments:
killer picture of Otis! Say wuddup to Cheshire for me. I lost his email.
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