Reboot

I am back, but only to tell you that I am leaving. I have been meaning
to blog for weeks, and as more time goes by I think that I should
write more, but then I think about how I hate long emails and blogs,
how it makes my mind wander, so let me just summarize.

I bought a boat. A yacht really. WRSC is now in the overnight surf
charter business. I'm leaving this week on the maiden voyage with
Larry, Dr Frank Lemes, Rafa, Chilo, maybe Pira, and our new captain
Charlie. Charlie has just finished 5 years captaining for the Blue
Dolphin catamaran and is ready to take our surf tours to Panama,
Nicaragua and beyond. We're going south to Matapalo / Pavones and
beyond, call the camp if you want to join us.

I got back from ten days on the road surfing exactly three weeks ago.
I didn't upload the pics yet, reason being we were working feverishly
on the new WRSC website. We launched the new website 6 days ago, so
stoked. www.witchsrocksurfcamp.com

Waves have been fun. Last week was pretty big, the rivermouth got
good. Two people drowned last Sunday, one guy while surfing in Negra.
I knew him, Alfredo I think his name was, the Channel Islands
surfboards Latin American rep. I was just surfing with him a week
earlier. I heard he had kids. I didn't want to tell Holly but I
figured she'd hear about it anyways. Man that guy surfed better than
me, it could have been anyone. Life is fucked up like that.

Holly and I went out last night, something we rarely do since having
kids. Holly's partner in the Organic Market, Andrea, and her husband
Diego babysat for us. We drank some of their "organic" mushroom tea
and went to Helena's house warming party. Shortly after getting there
I realized that I shouldn't have let myself go anywhere, Holly and I
escaped outside and, after a few hours, returned to earth. What a
funny, entertaining evening it was, totally fun, we fell asleep dying
laughing.

Today is family day. Kids, wife, beach, pool, couch, bed, tv, pac man,
cheeze-its, Imperial. Tomorrow we bring the yacht to Tamarindo. We
leave tentatively on Thursday, waiting for a better swell report to
make detailed plans. We are surf pirates. Point breaks = buried
treasure. I'm probably gone most of a month on this trip, ironing out
details, marking GPS points, definitely "working" thank god I call
this work. The surfing world games are the 1st week of August in Playa
Hermosa, def going to check that out. WRSC will have a booth at the
Surf Expo in Orlando August 20-22, come say hi to us if you're at the
show. Also going to have a booth at ASR in San Diego Sept 10-12. I
kindof wish I was going to the US Open in Huntington this month but
not as much as surfing Matapalo and Pavines, I cannot wait.

I'm ditching the laptop and keeping the phone. I will keep you posted
on this surf adventure :-)