Pablo Picsssos!! Hamburguesas as big as your cabasa?

My first trip was 97'. I felt like I discovered the place. I surfed most places alone or close to it. Washed out bridges, cow paths marked as roads on maps that were half accurate at best. Spent a good part of most days lost and learned to accept that where you are is the best place to be anyway. Always drank imperial and flor de cana. Learned how to fix cuts with superglue and all manner of first aid. Learned that when you cross a stream that's too deep, the rented RAV4 floats and the momentum will get you to where it's shallow enough to catch and you can keep going. It was so much more sketchy back then. If you broke down, you were on your own. If you got hurt, you were on your own. If you found a perfect wave south of Dominical with a river hugging a mountain emptying out and creating a deep spot that made for an absolutely perfect tube for an entire day and only five people ever showed up, you were on your own.

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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.