Trick or Treat

I gave my dad several opportunities to hit Hatteras on the way down--that would have been a real treat. Instead we opted to go to see Pedro at South of the Border. The trick was on me.

I'm on a 284 mile stretch of road with swamps and trees as far as the eye can see in all directions--oh no here comes the rollers. I'm asked if I know the speed limit in the city limits? City Limits, I guess that's what the hillbillies consider a city? I told Officer Beets to call ahead as I've got anotha 987 miles to go.

Cruised in at 11:30 last night. My dad wanted to spend the night in Savannah. If, I'm gonna take three days to drive to Ball-Z South (still operating in the red), I can assure you one night will be in the OBX. If there would be no speed limits on these backwoods roads, I'd do it in one day.

Waves are gonna be off the hook all week on the East Coast!!!

Caught with...

Well not quite with my pants down, but...caught in my boardshorts and slippahs. Who knew the trip to Florida would be like this. I guess the weather channel did.

My dad is real upset as I decided to forego the Outter Banks. Probably should've gone that way. We are way behind schedule. We are crashing in Virginia tonight and it looks like we've got another 15 hours ahead of us. We did better last year going to the OBX (supposedly out of the way).

Stay Tuned

The OBX may not be working this weekend. If not, no problem (save about 8 hrs driving), I'll be hitting Sebastian Inlet...Florida's premiere spot. If news changes en route, I will let you know. Would love to hit Hatteras as I need a new OBX sticker for my car.

The Good, The Bad AndThe Ugly

The good news is head-high waves in Hatteras on Sunday.
The bad news is nothing here until then.
And the ugly. You should have seen me yesterday in dress shoes, slacks and shirt--Ugly!

Flounder

Whew I did a lot of paddling today and not much else. I'm reminded of the guy who said, "it's looks like a lot of work for so little."

Ah...but, I caught two nice rides. One frontside where I did a big sweeping bottom turn and one backside where I was cruising down the line and saw the wave was gonna close so I turned it in. They say it only takes one. One good ride keeps the stoke alive and makes it all worth it.

Upon walking home, my camera man asked me how it went. He tells me he has other things to do. That's alright. Check out www.gopro.com

Good Thing...

...my video crew wasn't around. I had about as poor a session as you could possibly imagine.

At least it was good to be in the water...not really. It's almost time to bust out the winter suit. If nothing else I'll be wearing gloves next time out. Hopefully that will be in a few hours and the video team should be here by then.

Sweet Dreams

I caught the longest frontside wave today. It just went on forever. Then I woke up.

"But that was just a dream
That was just a dream"

If the waves come in tomorrow as predicted...I hope to turn dreams into reality.