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Surfing Cayucos Pier
Greetings from Cayucos’s Southside Pier, where I just played in the waves with a surfboard. To say I surfed would be engaging in hyperbole. To say I repeatedly lifted my board over every wave while deciding not to catch it would be more accurate. This morning, I drove the twenty minutes here from my Cambria hotel because I’d read glowing reviews about Good Clean Fun, Read more...
Surfing Linda Mar
Greetings from Pacifica’s famously beautiful Taco Hell (as my high school cohort called it, even though my friends and I ate at one of its Phoenix locations four out of five weekdays back then). This morning is too foggy for you to tell, but behind this TH is the profoundly marvelous ocean. This is where we meet for my weekly surfing lesson. This morning, there Read more...
Sunday morning ritual
Does your church involve sand? Mine does. Surfing in Pacifica is my new Sunday morning ritual. Today, I stood on the eight-foot board twice. Once, I rode in for a few seconds. The other time, I made an immediate splash, if you catch my drift. The rest of the time, I repeatedly worked on getting up on the board. And I body surfed the big Read more...