Night Surfing

My summer class just finished up last week and man am I excited for summer. An hour after I took my final, I was on the road for a concert in San Francisco that night. It was The 1975, my favorite band, and I was with my best friend. It couldn't get much better than that. The next day we were head up to Tahoe with a few of our other good friends for a fishing trip that ended being just a "trip." We went home empty handed but had a great time hanging out around the campfire. The day after we got back from camping, I went for a solo road trip back home to SLO, and then put my truck to the test and started my journey down to San Diego to visit my sister. While waiting for my sister to get off work, I went and visited my roommate who lives in Encinitas. We had a lovely dinner with his parents and then went out to Swami's for a night surf session. I had never night surfed before but it was awesome! Having surfed in SLO for most of my time, I had never ridden such perfect waves before. My friend Trevor even said that the conditions weren't even good for Swami's and I was in awe. I got to take the first ride on the new board that I shaped earlier in the year and there was no comparison to my old board. The board that I shaped is short, but very fat and wide so it floats like a dream. I was in heaven. And there was only one other person out so we could catch whatever wave we wanted. With long lulls in between sets, Trevor and I both ended up catching and riding the same wave together, but that just made it all the more better to be laughing and yelling at each other as we rode down the line. This has only been the first 6 days of my summer and I have already packed so many adventures into it. It has really been the best summer of my life so far. My sister and I leave for Ireland in 24 hours for a week of enjoying the rolling emerald hills.  I could not be more excited. It's gonna be a long few days but it will be more than worth it.