Endless ASummer in San Diego (long)
rodNDtube
to/from San Diego, but so it played out. It's been fun and the San Diego
crew has been a blast... with the exception of N8 (more of that later)...
and a near hit (or miss).
It all started in mid-June with a week of work-related training. June
gloom was in full bloom but several dinners & a breakfast with Tom Keener
kept things sunny and lively plus tours of certain San Diego sights. Also
caught a dinner with two good friends, Dan and JCV, after passing on the
less than exciting surf offerings one evening... and talk about upcoming
Baja trip plans with DanO. Parts of Fri and Sat were spent at Terry
Hendricks' place where I received what seems like hours of Baja slide
shows that spanned four decades. Surfing? Yeah, a couple of sessions at
Windyseas and a very fun outing at H*rsesh*e with 6 stokin' bodyboarders.
One week later I was taking to the air again, this time for one
day of meetings. Picked up my board & gear at the TK B&B, hit some sloppy
surf at H*rs*sh*e, dined with Keener, stowed surf gear at the TK B&B.
Yeah, I heard all about, "You shoulda been here yesterday!"
Back home for a full week and a half before departing on my SD/Baja Trip
visit. Mrs. Rod and I spent 5 nights in the La Jolla area before I loaded
her back on the airplane east before heading to points south. Prior to
boarding she asked how many alt.surfing spousal (ASS) points she had
earned... "Honey, you may not want to state it in those exact terms."
During her short visit we somehow managed to hook up with TK for dinner;
just missed a morning session with the Court Jester (his explanation was
garbled on that terrible verizon transmission, but it certainly kept me
from trouncing Foon in the Great AS Points Race); TD and his beautiful
wife and son for an afternoon and evening after our stops to the Rip Curl
outlet in San Clemente and then touristing about Huntington Beach. The
surf was chest high but blown out. The Jalisco Mexican food joint was
great!
The following evening featured a mind-blowing slide show by George Barnes,
preceded by a social hour mixer of OB (the Independent Republic)
anarchists and several ASers: TD, sdbchguy (TH), Mondo Cane (points!),
OBsurfer and myself. GB treated us to about 2 hours worth of slides, 3
full sets of slides: life and scenery of a certain South Pacific Island,
surf of this Island, and the Great Galapagos Getaway by Mondo and Barnes.
No water session with Mondo on this trip... but next time. He kept me
filled in with optimal locations based on tides, swell and periodicity...
thanks! More of those "spousal" points during our visit to JohnH's for
dining and wining, along with Dan and his wife.
In between, I managed a visit to a local shaper to order a paipo fish and
meet with one of the Fins Unlimited folks to order two sets of speciality
fins. Since the FU in near the home of sdbchguy we made a quick visit (ha
ha) to meet one of my Baja Surf Guides and surfwhiz extraordinaire. Having
made the mistake to ask Terry to pull out the Red October kneeboard,
before I had finished explaining the simple details of this beautiful
piece of workmanship, he had pulled out 6 other kneeboards plus 3 of his
R/D paipo hydrofoils. Then it oooh and aaaww time looking over the Baja
Buggy.
Late Sunday evening a specially coded message was sent to me by the Pink
Bod with instrutions to meet early the next morning at the best secret
spot in La Jolla. This was a set-up... as I was promptly mugged by one of
the LJ enforcers. After paying my dues (meeting several of the glamorous
LJ surf society), we headed out to the 40' surf (as reported by BA). The
deal was BA would let me catch waves if I ran interference for him on the
paddle outs. Deal! After about an hour in the warm swells, TD showed up
and proceeded to rip the living shit out of the surf... the LJ locals
wimpered away one-by-one... as the surf declined and the tide filled in.
After a quick breakfast at the villa, TD and I met up with Santa Keener at
another infamous LJ break, Green Rocks, that had been showing promise all
morning... before Keener arrived! We talked story for an hour or so but
with no improvement in sight... went our separate ways. Spent rest of the
day touristing about San Diego before meeting up with TK for dinner.
Beep! Beep! Another incoming coded message with instructions to meet at
a famous LJ reef early the next morning. JCV was running a few minutes
late, but the waves looked too inviting so I suited up and paddled out and
encountered that LJ living legend, BA. He is everywhere! Several folks
from the day before were out and we had a good time sharing waves all
around. Then JCV showed up and proceeded to hog all the waves. It was good
seeing her out in the water again with that big smile and stoke.
Later that morning, Dan King picked me up and the second phase of the
Endless ASummer was underway. We picked up final provisions in San Ysidro,
journeyed to the Green Room (somewhere between TJ and Ensenada), and
kicked around. Surfed the next morning at San Miguel with an aggresive
funboarder and his homeboy Aussie ("don't paddle on the inside" meaning
"leave the peak open so I can shoulder hop"). The surf was poor to fair so
after an hour or so we headed into Ensenada for fish tacos and cervezas.
Three vacationing, cruising "widows" wowed us with their drinking exploits
and stories. Ha ha. The tacos were good. Checked out Salsipuedes (flat).
Next morning TH and the Baja Buggy show and the fun really begins. We went
someplace south... that's all I can say... several military checkpoints
later and over 2 hours on desert dust cake roads we ended up at beautiful
right point where we enjoyed surf in the 3-7' range over the next few
days (see the pics of the really small stuff posted up by Dan):
http://members.cox.net/djking_adi/surf/baja/20030717/baja_20030717.htm
In the spirit of exploration and discovery we coined the break Dead Dog
Point, or Punto del Perro Muerto. The first morning of DDP belonged to the
prone riders: Terry on the hydrofoil paipo, Dan on his bodyboard, me on my
paipo and Kent on his 48" concave paipo (he also brought down his 54" and
59" models). The waves were "spoiled" late in the morning by the addition
of a shortboarder and funboarder. Time to paddle in :) Kent is based in
the LA-area and also windsurfs.
AS food treats: hamburgesa rancheros con huevos y queso; sunrise tacos con
huevos, bacon y queso; tortillas peanut butter.
With diminishing swell we packed up and headed north several hours to
another point hoping some would still be filling in there. The waves off
the faro looked very inviting... someday. Spent the last evening at the
Green Room with JCV and Dan... fine dining with Dan's special buffalo
multi-bean kickass chili, wine and beer on the candlelit balcony with a
view of the ocean.
Many thanks to all of the San Diego/OC-area ASers for making this such
a wonderful visit! Especially my 1st Baja Surfing trip hosts, Dan and
Terry (another AS point!). And many thanks to that special woman... so
sweet and smooth... (not andrea and not martha... nor olga, the rumored
25yo thing)... Sandra, of Puerto Nuevo. She can be had for only $14US, but
was oh so good.
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Rod Rodgers
Bring on the SPF!
http://www.rodNDtube.com/
Foon
>
>Little did I know just 4 months ago that 3 of 4 weeks would be spent at,
>to/from San Diego, but so it played out. It's been fun and the San Diego
>crew has been a blast.
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Welcome back Rodrigo! We "missed" you in the lineup here on the Delmarva. That
was one excellent trip report hitting on all the popular elements that make trip
reporting enjoyable to read (surfing, food, AS encounters, local color, food,
drink, legends, international intrigue, food, surfing, slide shows, scenery,
points.) And if your planning on creating a new points category (ASS) to pad
your paltry total, remember MrsRod was a guest at the Bunker so I may be in line
for another point ;) Tings have been mui quiet here in the MidAtlantic due to
lack of stormage though there were a few high points considering it's summer. I
suppose you'll be having to go back to work now that the fun is over. Drop me a
line on you lunch hour some day and I'll give you a list of things that need
doing around the Bunker. Next task will be to finalize GP planning and
scheduling. Will you have your new paipo by then?
-Foon
aloha-guy luvs.ya
> Little did I know just 4 months ago that 3 of 4 weeks would be spent at,
> to/from San Diego, but so it played out. It's been fun and the San Diego
> crew has been a blast... with the exception of N8 (more of that later)...
> and a near hit (or miss).
> Late Sunday evening a specially coded message was sent to me by the Pink
> Bod with instrutions to meet early the next morning at the best secret
> spot in La Jolla. This was a set-up... as I was promptly mugged by one of
> the LJ enforcers. After paying my dues (meeting several of the glamorous
> LJ surf society), we headed out to the 40' surf (as reported by BA). The....
> > All juicey parts deleted in tthe name of good taste < <
> ...thanks to all of the San Diego/OC-area ASers for making this such
> a wonderful visit! Especially my 1st Baja Surfing trip hosts, Dan and
> Terry (another AS point!). And many thanks to that special woman... so
> sweet and smooth... (not andrea and not martha... nor olga, the rumored
> 25yo thing)... Sandra, of Puerto Nuevo. She can be had for only $14US, but
> was oh so good.
> Rod Rodgers
Regarding Sandra: two things, just how good was she and how did she look.
Rod what an epic BCN excursion. Next time you go there and would like to
try real good food (gringo) try the San Yskidro In&OUT regular
burger, double animal and double dipped fries. Copyright your story and send
her to Scott Hullet at Surfer's Journal. They need material such as yours.
Good stuff.
aloha "vodka on the rocks, squeeze of lime" guy
Tom Keener
wrote:
> Mrs. Rod and I spent 5 nights in the La Jolla area before I loaded
>her back on the airplane east before heading to points south. Prior to
>boarding she asked how many alt.surfing spousal (ASS) points she had
>earned... "Honey, you may not want to state it in those exact terms."
unh huh. Lemme guess. You want points for meeting Elke, right?
Tom Keener
email me if you want my email address
rodNDtube
> rodNDtube <rrod...@bcpl.net> wrote in message news:<Pine.SOL.3.93.1030722214123.10846A-100000@mail>...
> > Little did I know just 4 months ago that 3 of 4 weeks would be spent at,
> > to/from San Diego, but so it played out. It's been fun and the San Diego
> > crew has been a blast... with the exception of N8 (more of that later)...
> > and a near hit (or miss).
>
>
> > Late Sunday evening a specially coded message was sent to me by the Pink
> > Bod with instrutions to meet early the next morning at the best secret
> > spot in La Jolla. This was a set-up... as I was promptly mugged by one of
> > the LJ enforcers. After paying my dues (meeting several of the glamorous
> > LJ surf society), we headed out to the 40' surf (as reported by BA). The....
>
> > > All juicey parts deleted in tthe name of good taste < <
>
> > ...thanks to all of the San Diego/OC-area ASers for making this such
> > a wonderful visit! Especially my 1st Baja Surfing trip hosts, Dan and
> > Terry (another AS point!). And many thanks to that special woman... so
> > sweet and smooth... (not andrea and not martha... nor olga, the rumored
> > 25yo thing)... Sandra, of Puerto Nuevo. She can be had for only $14US, but
> > was oh so good.
> > Rod Rodgers
>
> Regarding Sandra: two things, just how good was she and how did she look.
Light, golden color... and very, very good. Dan may be able to snag a
picture of her.
> Rod what an epic BCN excursion. Next time you go there and would like to
> try real good food (gringo) try the San Yskidro In&OUT regular
> burger, double animal and double dipped fries. Copyright your story and send
> her to Scott Hullet at Surfer's Journal. They need material such as yours.
> Good stuff.
> aloha "vodka on the rocks, squeeze of lime" guy
Paul Richardson
Tom Keener
wrote:
>Little did I know just 4 months ago that 3 of 4 weeks would be spent at,
>to/from San Diego, but so it played out. It's been fun and the San Diego
>crew has been a blast... with the exception of N8 (more of that later)...
OK. It's later now...
rodNDtube
Patience! And to get into the right framework, chant: "ED-DIE, ED-DIE,
ED-DIE" for a few minutes. Fun trip to the Hall.
johnny midget
I was under the impression Endless Summer was a surfing documentary of almost
forty years ago. Why are bodyboarders trying still to get on Surfing's
Bandwagon. Why, please, why? I'm so confused.
Jimmy (Woe is Me") Midget