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East of Bali: Surfing Indonesia(Comments Off)

March 24, 2004

May 5: The reef is more than a kilometer from shore. At low tide you can wade out through cultivated plots of agar seaweed, over steps of nubby coral and basins of sand. Big red starfish dot the aquascape like gumdrops on a cake and bright blue fish dart through the shallows. The reef is [...]

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CitySurfer's Journal: 2000

January 2000 Happy New year, Thanks for the note. I’m still in Morocco surfing. Will stay here another two weeks then get out of the country, sell the van and fly to india. Trouble is, it would be easy to stay here all winter. New Years in Maroc was cool — just a few dozen [...]

India Notes, Part 1

Silva rerum is a Latin term R. Kapuscinski liked to use. It means “the forest of things.” India is a vast forest of things, and people. Timeline: 2000 BC – Indus Valley Civ 1500 BC – Vedic/Aryan civ, beginning of castes 400 BC – Alexander the Great invades Himchal Pradesh 500 AD – Pallavas rise [...]

CitySurfer's Journal: Summer and Fall 1999

July 1999 Thanks Al and Pete for cleaning up the apartment. I guess I owe you guys a dinner, at least. Just didn’t leave enough time to get it all done. London was cool. We had dinner in Brixton last night, which is sort of London’s Williamsburgh. This morning I took the train to Edinburgh, [...]


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