Some small but clean waves this morning. Here’s a few pics.
A couple pics
I AM alive
Sorry everybody…since I’ve been home I’ve been getting everything settled at the place I’m staying. I haven’t had Internet and hence haven’t posted anything. So here’s a rundown on what I’ve been up to.
I finally got back in the water after the long road trip and it felt so good. Putting on a 3/2 with no booties, gloves or hood was amazing. It felt like I was putting on a thin Lycra suit. The water was fine and the waves have been fun. I have a few pictures from the last few days that I will upload later this evening.
I also got a bike from craigslist yesterday so that cruising around La Jolla will be a bit easier and faster. I’ll of course be mounting it with a surfboard rack for easy transportation of the blades.
I will also be doing an X-trak giveaway in the next week to make up for my lack of posts. Stay tuned as I will announce what day and time I will post the question for the giveaway so that everybody who wants will have a fair chance at winning.
Day 8 Finally home
Finally made it to San Diego! I was so excited that once I got to Alpine I forgot to keep taking pictures. It feels great to be done with the drive even though it was super fun and we got to see great scenery and hang out with lots of cool people. Here are the last few pictures that I took.
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- Gordons Well sand dunes
- El centro farmland
- I couldn’t wait to be back to where “sea level” included a “sea” and changed a bit with the tide
- The last mountains to climb before dropping back into San Diego
- This is just before we crossed the official county line back into San Diego
- This is it…..the last picture I remembered to take before making it to the Jolla.
- A pic from above above the aquarium looking out at the cove
- Looking at the cove from shores
- A shot looking east past downtown from when I was here in January
I didn’t take the last three pictures on this drive but I figured I’d post them for everyone who hasn’t been lucky enough to visit here before.
Day 7 photos
Today was all about hanging out in the desert with my dad. We didn’t make any ground towards San Diego and are staying in Yuma again tonight. It was a great day. Perfectly sunny, about 100*F and we had an epic watering hole all to ourselves. Here’s some pics from the day.
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- Finally
- the Cargo Muchacho mountains
- Laura and my dad having a swim
- The watering hole
- Grizzly Adams found the place too
- dad and I
- dad shredding the 4 wheeler
- looking up from the water
- scouting the swimming area
- this is a total score in a place where water is very rare
- Laura and I cruising the cart
- I’ve been exploring these mountains since I was a little kid and this was the first time I’ve been lucky enough to get here
- the sand dunes off to the west
Spring Verses 10 by Ryan Denning
Check out Joel Feid, Myself, Mike Stanek and Natty Graham in Ryan’s latest edit. If you haven’t checked out his prior work do it. Spring Verses 9 is currently a feature on ESM magazines website. You can check them all out on his website as well:
Day 6 photos
So I would say that besides the lightning pictures that I got in Boulder that day 6 was the best day for pictures. I stopped at the meteor crater in northern AZ as well as Montezuma’s castle. We also drove across the continental divide and through Sedona, AZ which are both amazing. Here’s the pics. Enjoy.
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- New Mexico
- More NM scenery
- Continental Divide NM
- Gallup, NM
- Entering AZ
- Some crazy rocks we passed
- The mountains above Flagstaff, AZ
- Meteor Crater, AZ
- This was really impressive. So glad I got to see it.
- Between Flagstaff and Sedona
- Like the sign said…..”scenic lookout”
- Montezuma’s castle
- I would love to have been able to check out the inside. The colors were amazing.
- A different angle, same beauty
- Dropping down towards Pheonix
Day 6
I had a super big day today. Drove all the way from Santa Fe, NM to Yuma, AZ. When I was heading out to New Hampshire it was dark when I passed Montezumas castle and the meteor crater in AZ. So I made it a point to stop at both places today. They were both super cool and I took some good pics that I will upload later. Here was the ground we covered.

Day 5 pictures
Here are the pics I took on the drive from Boulder, CO to Santa FE, NM.
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Day 5
So we got back in the burban today and put Boulder, CO to the rearview mirror. It was super smooth sailing until we got to the New Mexico border, when the wind starting absolutely howling. I’ve driven in super windy conditions before but this was definitely the worst. So I wrestled the burban to Santa Fe, NM and this is the end of the line for the day.
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