Six weeks ago, the canton de Garabito or Garabito County in which Jaco is located took delivery of close to 20 new white Toyota pickup trucks courtesy of the local developers. When the rest of the world is trying to conserve on fossil fuel consumption and when the Fuerza Publica cannot afford to pay for it own gasoline usage, Garabito’s employees and workers are guzzling fuel at record numbers.

Today, you can see the monster size pickups touring through town, towering over the smaller local more fuel efficient cars. Previously, it was the pretentious albeit only a handful who drove monter trucks in this paved road city. With the addition of 20 plus gas guzzling trucks, this will only add to the local pollution and one needs to ask themselves, why? What is the purpose of this? Who is going to pay for the enormous gasoline bills? When the Garabito Council claims it cannot afford to do this or that, they seem to have no problems accepting gifts like this. more…

Thank you to everyone who applied for the WRSC Sales Manager position, and congratulations to Larry McKinney. Larry will be at WRSC in a few days and will officially start work on Monday November 10th. Please feel free to crank call him by calling the WRSC Hotline: 1-888-318-SURF
Welcome to your new job Larry! The dude gets 2 hour surf breaks for lunch, not bad!

Hey Chris Brown, this is the most epic photo I’ve seen in a while, I think. What exactly am I looking at? It just doesn’t make any sense to me!

Gotta love facebook for things like that. Anyways, my banker called me to tell me my bank was closing, so I guess I can say sorry to everyone I recommended to Banco Cuscatlan. It all-of-a-sudden closed on Friday, my online banking is down, the bank isn’t opening on Monday, or ever for that matter. Hmmm…. Ok…… No matter what I’m never going back to Banco Nacional, they are the devil. Seems like all banks suck these days. More than anything, I am sick to death of politics. I can’t wait for it to be over. When I left for Costa Rica Bill Clinton was president and the worst thing going on was a blowjob in the Oval Office. Now its way out of hand. Normally I’d bury myself in the football season but the Chargers aren’t making it easy on me. Thank mother nature for surfing. Thank you mother ocean When my wife hates on me, you bring me waves. When my kids drive me nuts, I go surf and remember why I have kids in the first place. You are free, and you make me feel free. The more I surf the more I love to surf and the more I love the ocean. In appreciation of you, mother ocean, I’ve started growing a 70′s soul mustache and I will make it my mission to convert every surfer friend I know to grow their soul stache. Soulstache. Longboard Fever. I’m going surfing.

Thanks to Joe Walsh and Witches Rock Surf Camp!!

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I don’t care if it rains again. I don’t care if my roof leaks, as it has been for the last two months with the heavy rains. You’re sitting on the toilet, water droplets falling on your head. Or you’re on the couch, trying to get a nap or watch HBO, and drips falling on your head. Not any more. The wind has been blowing offshore all day today, and most all yesterday. The surf is tiny, but it doesn’t matter, just grab a longboard and cruise! As my buddy Chris said yesterday, “Longboard Fever!”. I’m getting ready for Peru, taking the 9’0 and the 6’0, only 11 days to go. I still need to make some phone calls to everyone who is going on the trip, its going to be a great trip.

Tommy, I read your message, and yes how cool that SOJA and Slightly Stoopid are playing together in DC. I am torn. Large shows mean more work on my end planning, they mean doing the show off of the beach. Smaller shows mean I can host them at WRSC, less planning, everything is right here. Should I go for three or four bands, or should I go for three or four shows? Please peoples, guide me here.

I have a verbal agreement with Agent Orange, they are stoked to play the show by the way. more…

Hola. I’ve had a friend in town, so I haven’t done any work. The surf was going off, so I was surfing. And drinking import beers that I bought from Automercado. I have responded to about 5% of my email. Sorry! I should get back on track this week, now that the surf is flat.

Here I am chilling with Soulwax, an electro/house band from Belgium . They played a big show in San Jose Saturday Oct. 18th and then came to Tamarindo for a few days. We showed them how to surf. I introduced them to Guaro. That was fun.

Happy is getting huge. He is taking a bottle now, hopefully my wife can take a break from having to wake up through the night. Now at least I can help feed the kid. He is really starting to like the guitar, always strumming it when I’m playing it and playing with it when its lying on the ground. We put Happy on a surfboard today for the first time. He loved it. more…