When I was there, I thought Haleiwa was perfect. The Hawaiians didn't feel like bothering with fast overhead slabs. I felt like I just exited a desert and stumbled into an all you can eat buffet. It was small by Hawaiian standards. I surfed all day. I felt like a small day in haieiwa was worth that miserable flight from Miami, then Detroit, then San Francisco snd finally Honolulu. For a cheap ticket, I paid. My fins were smashed flat on my board. Delta laughed at me. I ended up at surf and sea and put my board in for repairs and bought a used board there. I was there for three weeks. I ended up leaving the repaired board there on consignment and taking the semi gun home. Got the check from surf snd sea three months later. $135. Not bad.

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.