Category Archives: Mexico
Climate Summit Opens in Mexico
The United Nations’ 16th conference on climate change opens today in Cancun, Mexico. Representatives from 194 countries are scheduled to attend, although as this UPI story notes, expectations for a binding international climate treaty are low. The meeting takes place … Continue reading
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Today Is The Day
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.
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, … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
Palenque, Part 2: City of Faith
Lacking any knowledge of Mayan history, the various expeditions and theories that have been imposed on this place, Palenque impresses the visitor with its presence. The refined grace of the buildings, the sophisticated interplay of natural contours and manmade terraces … Continue reading
Palenque, Part 1: City of Faith
Palenque was built on faith. For 600 years a dynasty of warrior priests ruled over the city-state that was as important to Mayan civilization as Florence was to the European Renaissance. Their rule was absolute and their powers unquestioned. Then, … Continue reading
CitySurfer's Journal: Spring 1998, Part 2
Jesse caught up with me by the water’s edge. “So, why’d we stop here?” he asked. “No reason.” We got back in the car and continued north along the coast. Jesse had a plastic bag full of powdery Mexican chocolate … Continue reading
CitySurfers Journal: Winter 1998
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 1998 Subject: Re: New Years surf Finished off this year with a sloppy session at RM5 on the 31st. It was cold as fuck, the wind was sideshore and the waves were lumpy shoulder-high mushbergers, but, … Continue reading