Summer So Far...

Being employed by only the occasional surfing lesson (until now) has given me the opportunity to try out a few things this summer. I have worked as an artist: putting extensive wall finishes in a million dollar home. I have installed windows in a University of Virginia dorms (although they had to be taken out after a combination of carelessness from many allowed them to be put in without the proper measurements). I have completely demolished my sister's bathroom with a sledge hammer and ipod speaker in 3 days.

Finally I'm out of town... After travelling for the better half of six months and going a new place every couple of days for the last two of them, being in Virginia Beach for a month straight has forced the word restless out of every pore of my body. I believe this is some sort adverse effect of reverse culture shock, but either way... it has been good to get out.

After loading my car with surfboards, bathing suits, and a few shirts I was off, mapless*, to Bethany Beach, Delaware to surprise some friends who work as life guards in their parents beach houses for the summer. And surprise them I did. I made my way up the Delmarva Peninsula and onto the beaches of Bethany. There I found my old comrades, whom I spent everyday with in Australia, monitoring the water but paying better attention to the weekly 17 yr old female renters walking along the edge.

I spent the weekend "Lurring" and made my hungover way to Long Island, again mapless, on Sunday. I'll go to the city a few times only to return home next week, more than likely in more financial than when I left.

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* MapQuest, GPS systems, or even an ordinary road map (if it is in your native language) can take away from possible opportunities for adventure and thus lead to predictable circumstances