Mexico 
Today Is The Day(Comments Off)
Someone identified as “imageposse” put together this beautiful surfing video scored with Yo La Tengo’s ‘Today Is The Day’. That’s all I know about it. Well, that, and they scored some really sweet waves in Baja. See the vid below.
Full Story»Duct Tape Saved My Life
My version: 17 years old, down in Baja, Punta Abreojos the destination. We were about 40 miles north at the time that my friends ’69 Dodge van blew a belt. Oh man, what a pain. We’d never been to Abreojos, had been working our way farther and farther south for a couple of years, we [...]
FBI warns of kidnappings in Tijuana
I was talking with a surfer who had been living in SoCal recently. He told me that the Marines at Camp Pendelton has made northern Baja off limits to recruits on leave. You have to wonder about traveling to an area that the U.S. Marines deem unsafe. Then there’s this: SAN DIEGO, Feb. 7 (UPI) [...]
Surfing Mexico
From below, it looks like the bottom of a thundercloud — dark and roiling — until it begins to bend. Get too close to the curve and it will suck you over. So you hug the bottom, swimming seaward like a turtle trying to dodge an oil tanker. When the shadow passes overhead and the [...]