day 82: flagstaff to albuqueque

>> Saturday, January 9, 2010

driving across arizona and new mexico the landscape is beautiful.  there is so many mountains and different colored rocks.  since the country is getting battered with harsh cold weather we decided not to drive 10+ hours a day.  we are keeping our travel to about 8 hours daily.   let's see how this treats us.

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day 81: pacific beach to flagstaff

so the california love affair has come to an end.  today we have packed the camper up tight and we are headed east on route 66 and staying in cheap hotels along the way.  first stop flagstaff arizona.

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surfing in many forms

>> Wednesday, January 6, 2010

today in mission beach we had a day chock full of surfing in many forms...


am session, long clean waist high peelers

lunch at the wave house, watching people rip or bust their ass on brutus maximus was entertaining

followed by an afternoon stand up paddle session in mission bay


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surfing mission beach

so we decided to stay in san diego a couple more days, the weather is perfect and the surfing is great.  we just ton't want to leave.

here are some shots of me surfing mission beach



 
 

and in ocean beach there is a place called dog beach where there is surfing and you can let your dogs run free and play.... this place is stellar!

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blogger back story

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
several contingency plans for different times when it would sell. to our astonishment the house sold in 48 hours!

on surfing

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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