Endless Session, Day 291: Salty Harmony
New magic board? It’s looking that way. Photo by Jose Barahona “Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy a surfboard, that’s pretty close.” The most important things in life to me are my loved ones and my surfboards. A month ago when my nearly ten foot blue companion had to be laid up surgery for an unexpected puncture, I felt incomplete, a whiter replacement getting me a good deal of waves but not feeling quite right under my feet. And so as I walked into Jose Barahona’s shaping shack yesterday with a delivery of new sleds for him from Orange County, I wasn’t expecting that I had a package of my own. The board we had been developing together, weeks prior, was done. I bounced out of bed this morning, flung on a surf suit and grabbed my new friend, looking lustrous and smelling like a fresh resin shower. The bare deck was slippery in my hands, and grabbing some bars of sticky wax, I met ocean lover and marine mammal defender Jose Bacallao in the Brothers Burritos parking lot, where he too had a new baby; a green Aleutian Juice SUP crafted by Dave Parmenter. The time had come to test ride our virgin sea-vehicles, and we nearly skipped to the water’s edge. Bacallao’s new juicy…
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