How-To 
Ten Tips for Traveling Solo(Comments Off)
There’s a lot to recommend traveling alone. You go where you want, when you want and do what you want. There’s no group decisions or waiting
around. It’s the ultimate freedom. On the other hand, extended solo travel can be lonely and sometimes dangerous.
Here are 10 tips to keep the solo traveler safe and happy:
Travel light. [...]
Full Story»The Severn Bore
August 6, 2009: the Gloucestershire news reports on a surfer who has chalked up 500 + rides on the Severn. There’s also a few tales of the Bore from alt.surfing:
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Re: Severn bore record goes again
Date: 31 Aug 1996
From yesterday’s Times: “A man aged 50 has retaken the record for surfing the Severn bore. [...]
Surfing With Contacts
From: G. Pasquinelli
Subject: Re: Surfing with contacts?
I wear contacts when I surf nowadays. I started off without wearing them and I didn’t really mind it. I could still see the sets coming in and such but it was still a pain to not recognize other surfers and such as everyone around was so blurry!!! So [...]
Swim Training
kooks@egroups.com, Fringnut wrote:
I swim ( either mile or half mile) as often as possible. At end of swim workout, I swim a length underwater, then sprint a length – trying to simulate a wipeout and recovery. I do this underwater thing two or three times. It really builds confidence knowing that you can hold [...]