Beach trips-Fortune favors the brave
Derek Brewer tore a shoulder on a wave like this when the lip landed on him. He said it was worth it. by Chris Brown My latest trip to Northern Baja started with a phone call from my life-long friend Derek Brewer. “The swell for this weekend is going to be really solid and conditions look unreal. We’re going and you’re in.” I had been watching the surf forecast myself and knew he was right, but there were a lot of unsettling media reports coming in from Mexico lately. The day I received Derek’s call a teacher from El Monte had been kidnapped and murdered in Mexico while visiting his in-laws for the holidays. Another news story that day detailed how a Mexican drug cartel had killed a rival, removed his face from his body and stitched it onto a soccer ball. I found myself wondering if it was really safe to go. My next step was to talk to my friends who still travel to Baja on a regular basis. Every person I talked to told me the same thing: don’t drive at night, don’t bring or buy drugs and you should be fine. One friend told me he still takes down his wife and kids. After checking the surf forecast for the umpteenth time and weighing the likelihood of getting perfect waves versus…
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