Mar 11
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Spring Break in Mexico, Decapitations and Coolers

If you listen to everyone in the news and all the worry warts, the United States is in a recession…hell, the world is in a recession. Down here in Puerto Rico, all the local Inn’s and Hotels are complaining about a slow down in business but most of them are still doing well. I wonder [...]

Author: stefan
Jan 14
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SoCold in SoCal

I feel like I’ve posted about the cold weather in San Diego just a couple of weeks ago, but just in case i didn’t, here we go again.
It is just plain old cold in San Diego right now. Last nights low hit 36°F which is a couple degrees above freezing! That’s right, the weather in [...]

Author: stefan
Jan 08
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Mal Pais Hotel – Milarepa

Mal Pais Costa Rica Hotel – Milarepa
On a recent visit Costa Rica, Summer and I headed over to the Nicoya Peninsula to do some surfing and check out real estate in the Mal Pais and Playa Santa Teresa area. I have been meaning to tell you about this great place to stay in Mal Pais [...]

Author: stefan
Nov 30
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Dubai Craziness

My sister and her family are currently living in Ethiopia. She has an awesome husband and three beautiful kids (two boys and a girl). I get these great emails from them fairly regularly discussing their adventures as a family, as parents and as young kids growing up in Ethiopia.
Recently, two of them went on [...]

Author: stefan
Nov 30
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Attack of the Potato Bug

First off, last night was by far the coldest night in San Diego since the turn of the century. Maybe since last winter, but it was so cold it must have broken records. The low last night was 43 degree’s…come on! I know you, and you don’t think 43 degrees when you think of southern [...]

Author: stefan
Oct 20
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Southern California Mountain Biking

So, I am posting this because it is for a good cause. It is a site dedicated to saving some GREAT mountain biking trails in San Diego. They have been ridden for 20 years and now that the county found all of the bridges and riding elements…they wanna shut the trails down. Go to the [...]

Author: stefan
Aug 18
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Mt. Laguna California Camping

Summer, Travis, Ellie and I are going camping this weekend! We are going to go inland instead of south to Mexico for a surf camping trip. We are heading to Mt. Laguna. The campground where we are staying is 6000 ft above sea level.
Because of San Diego traffic (as bad as LA traffic) we [...]

Author: stefan
May 05
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Surf to live, live to Surf - East vs. West

The reason I moved to California was to have opportunity to make some money and be able to surf…without dealing with below zero winters.
This winter, the surf in San Diego was decent…a lot of working to pay the bills and a few trips to Hawaii and Costa Rica. But still, even then, I get [...]

Author: stefan
Sep 23
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Surfing San Diego

I had the usual busy day at work today, but I worked out of Carlsbad. It gave me the chance to catch some of the south swell hitting San Diego. Good Surfing. It was solid head heigh dredging low tide barrells. Surfing San Diego isn’t so bad…
The current was pulling hard out of the south. [...]

Author: stefan