halloween with friends

>> Monday, November 2, 2009


on halloween we met up with some good peoples and delaware "ex-pats" in carolina beach;  mike rhode (surfer friend from the navel jetty crew), dave (mike's neighbor and fellow surfer from cocoa beach) and katie (mike's girlfriend).  we had a nice afternoon on the beach, 2 hour surf session, waist to occasional chest waves.  it was a lil disorganized, but you couldn't complain since it was 80 degrees and sunny on the last day of october and we were still able to "skin it."  mike and katie moved to cb in the early summer and it was cool to catch up and get the inside scoop on carolina beach and wilmington area in general.



mike/katie have a killer condo 4 blocks from the beach.  dave was nice enough to let us borrow his bikes and we rode to el zapada on the main drag and had some quality mexican food and margaritas on the upstairs deck overlooking the halloween happenings.

it was an all around good day!  thanks again guys for your wonderful hospitality.  carolina beach is definitely a place i could call home, you may see us sooner than later.

Posted by andrew at 7:43 AM
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Anonymous November 2, 2009 at 10:08 PM  

We had an awesome day with you guys...Dave and I had some waist high glassy waves Sunday morning...missed you out there, thought about you guys making your way down to SC, and talked about how cool it is that you're doing this trip. Thanks for stopping by and making us part of the journey and we're wishing you luck on your trip!!

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my wife and i have had a fairly mundane life so far. we live in northern delaware where we met, fell in love, bought a house and got married. we enjoy traveling, camping, surfing and eating well and we do not have any children. we are in our mid-thirties and have average careers, not glamorous or high paying, but consistent none the less. as time passes day to day in our mundane life there has been something growing stronger inside of us for years. that something is the need to break out of our slumber and live life to the fullest. we want to see the world and find a place by the edge of the sea to call home and open our own business. we keep revisiting this idea, reinventing the plan, but never following through. last december we got serious... we wrote down goals, step by step, to move towards achieving our dreams. we created a budget and decided we could feasible travel in our pop-up camper for 3 months exploring the coast in search for the place we wanted to live. we saved money for traveling, we got our house appraised, we worked on curb appeal & we sold cumbersome unessential possessions. last big step was to sell our house and our target was September. we finally got our house on the market on friday, september 25. we had
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in 2004 my parents took my entire family on a Hawaiian cruise. during this cruise i had a life altering experience... a surf lesson on the island of maui. being a water person already, i immediately i had a definitive connection with surfing. upon arrival back in delaware i went out and purchased my first surf board. i started surfing the local breaks occasionally. i got my closest friends into it and they too ended up buying boards. occasionally turned into frequently and then every day off of work. my first board turned into several and then into a quiver. surfing started as a hobby, a mere fascination and now is a lifestyle that provides me spiritual well being. the connection to a higher power is never more present than during a good dawn session. out in the line up the stressful hustle bustle of life melts away and i can get quiet with god and recharge my internal battery. i'm sure surfing means different things to different people, but for me it is about the soul. i feel i am a better person because what surfing does for me and i will pursue that feeling for the rest of my life.

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