Youth is often wasted on the young. You might even take the girls with you. I have taken my teenage complainers and I am glad I did. Now they don't need to go and I still get to go.

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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.

Long Skinny, The trip was not arbitrary. We saw the swell and bought tickets 4 days before. For the ten days what got us going was 5ft at 19 seconds. I wont say here but we were really concerned with swell direction. Ive been told there are certain swell direction parameters. A couple days we were out of the tolerances. The days that were within in the range the waves really lined up. The other days it would section a bit.

I sat on it the next day at dead low waiting for the beginning of incoming. It didn't happen.

You should have driven up to Matapalo, then over the mountain to Carate. Is what I'da suggested 20 years ago. Probably get run off by property owning gringos wanting it all to themselves.