Surfing USA
Surfing USA
As you get older and your time becomes more precious, your priorities change and you are unfortunately forced to give up the things that once brought you happiness to new things that bring you financial rewards.
This is my excuse for not surfing as much. Because there are few things on life as enjoyable as heading into a calm sea of warm water with a group of friends and gliding down the sides of perfect waves. It is one of those experiences that makes you giddy. You start to act silly and babble to perfect strangers about the joys of the day and the moment of your time out there beyond the waves, sitting on your sufboard and peeing in your wetsuit. Watching the dolphins and the fish and the pelicans.
It’s when you have one of those days that you feel as though even wiping out is fun. Every wave is a thrill you can enjoy to the maximum—even if most of it ends up your nose. Sometimes you’ll even be competing with your friends for the hairiest wipeout of the day.
But as you get older your priorities become tilted towards the “money” thing and the “fix the garden” thing and pretty soon you’re getting to the beach less and less. Then you go once and have a bad experience, or a scary experience and pretty soon your friends are not so eager to go surfing either and you become happily married, bald, and adding a few inches to your belt size.
Don’t let that happen. Schedule a surfing holiday today. A few are avalable at:
http://www.purevacations.com
http://www.bajatravelvacations.com/surfing-baja.html
http://www.prudenttravels.com/surfing.htm
http://www.quiksilvertravel.com/
http://www.topsurfsites.com/index.htm
If you can’t schedule a surf vacation, grab the boogie boards and a pair of fins and get tubed at your local beach while the kids are watching. Show them that even geezers can have fun.
Being in the tube still has that same hollow ring to it—whether you’re on a boogie board or a surfboard. And remember, it’s not necessarily how good you look, but rather how much fun you have in the process.
Pretty soon you’ll be babbling to perfect strangers about the joys of the day and the feeling of warm pee in your wetsuit.
August 12th, 2005 at 1:54 am
What the hell are you saying??? There’s waaaay too many surfers—or surfer wannabees and over-the-hill-never-could-surf-in-the-first-place-now-I’m-gettin’-a-long-board pricks out there now…..not to mention the legion of Blue Crush chicks who think being cute means they can cut you off every time you get the peak coming your way, and then they just giggle as they paddle back out and do it again and again. Gimme a break—Don’t invite more
Go pee in the garden if you gotta pee somewhere—-at least the plants can use the nitrogen!
August 27th, 2005 at 2:22 am
Tip of the Week for Surfing After 50….. When you get up at 5AM to pee (I know you do), take 2 Advil. Then, when you get up to surf at 8, you won’t feel a day over 49!!—-until you paddle in and sit down for a minute,that is.