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http://www.hollowsurfboards.com/2010CaliforniaTripReport.htm
Wow, I just did the whole trip. Thanks for posting that, Paul. The factory in the dunes near Marina is the sand plant and it processes, well, sand. What a great road trip. Mike
that was quite a journey - thanks for posting! I see my home break was featured...
I found the San Diego/up north part especially appealing since I will probably be doing the same in September. Very instructive for a foreigner. Your reports are a great window on the world, keep’em coming!
Trip reports are the best. You're doing an A+ job. Keep it coming, please.
really top-notch stuff paul! (i could tell ya some stories about that little house in SLO by the mission)
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Paul Thanks for that great photo rode trip report. I can't tell you how many memories It brought back. Bill Heal and me doinga central coast surf trip in 1977. My long history of Living in North County Sn Diego. all the old places and shops i worked in the Good friends I have met from all over the world passing thru Encinitas. Next time you are down that way be surf to stop in a surfy surfy shop on 101 in Leucadia. They would be stocked to see your boards.
What a great e-trip Paul! I did one of those trips when my hair was a different color...you captured the essence perfectly.
Hi just bumping this as I feel that it is worthy of being viewed by a wider 2011 audience. This thread has provided me with a very enjoyable trip through the Western Seaboard of what looks like a magnificent landscape. Last year we had the good fortune to host Winnemem Wintu people from Mount Shasta, here in Christchurch New Zealand and your opening pictures have put Mt Shasta into context within the Northern Californian landscape.
Over 100 years ago fertilised Salmon eggs from the McCloud River were transported to NZ and the descendants of the resulting Salmon are still hatched in hatcheries. The Winnemem Wintu came to NZ to establish a process of returning the descendants of their Salmon ancestors to the McCloud River as, by all accounts, they are extinct above a dam on the river. Unfortunately they feel that there will be a lot of non-physical barriers, Stateside, due to the unwillingness of your government to recognise them as a tribe in their own right, thereby not allowing them the autonomy that they feel they deserve. There are very similar issues here in NZ that we are in the process of resolving via the Waitangi Tribunal Treaty Claims.
Regards
MrT