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PART 5 There’s a lot more to Costa Rica than just the coast and surfing. The Coast is pretty but the mountains are amazingly beautiful. Plan at least a few days to recuperate in the middle of your trip with a breather out on a volcano on the spine of the continental divide. We chose the earthy, low ...

PART 4 If you're looking for the goods you're gonna want wheels: https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1452/26119947855_d1ebef9775_h.jpg With the fickle nature of the breaks and how spread out they are driving is a necessary evil. Costa Rica, apparently, has a relatively high highway death rate, and one ca...

PART 3 http://www.welovecostarica.com/public/images/4189e.jpg But if I go to the same area again, Pinilla would be my choice of where to stay. Pinilla is a 15 minute drive south of Tamarindo, and faces the least crowded major break I encountered the entire trip, and one of the best, Little Hawaii. L...

Part 2 You can beat the crowds in a number of ways. The first is to be on it early. There seems to be a rolling system of entry into the water: 1) 5:30am break of dawn East Coast US low-intermediate visitors who are up anyway because of the time change. Costa Rica, by the way, is a fantastic destina...

PART 1 It can be difficult to find balance between a vacation to keep your family happy and one that will also find you touring the inside of more than a few warm blue cylinders. So to meet those competing demands, for this trip I chose to focus on surfing Costa Rica’s Guanacaste coast around the re...

Got some surf, and some okay photos too - nice place for a surf trip!

The new board surfs very well. It paddles fast - equal or maybe better than my other boards, and doesn't push water at all paddling or surfing. Catches waves like crazy and gets down the line very nicely -- hasn't lost the drivey aspect of the previous boards. It's looser and quicker to rail than my...

I'm 48 but not a natural athlete and my 6'3" frame is beat up like frat house lawn furniture from 40 years of thinking I should chuck it around in on the snow, on the concrete, in the sea, in the forest on a bike, etc. So in my mind I'm at least 57. I work out like fiend to be able to surf and ...

http://www.ksusa.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=6136 Thanks - now see that I'm innovating from behind. :oops: A glowing endorsement for the machine built groveller ... gonna have to give it a go, one of the ones you can "custom" tweak, Channel Islands Average Joe or JS Show Pony Proba...

they are super flat rockered grovellers suited for 2 ft waves, with the rider jamming on the back foot a fair bit. might be ok in 2 ft waves, but i imagine they'd be utter crap as a kneeboard in decent waves. however, you never know till you give it a go. king waka has vidoes of him been riding one...

Been poking around at this subject a little. Generally I'm completely oblivious to surfboard design, so this is probably old news to most of you, but man there are a lot of "newly invented" short-wide "groveler" boards out there that look a lot like kneeboards, at least my kneebo...

I'm talking about boards like the Lost Puddlejumper, CI Average Joe, Firewire Sweet Potato? All of these boards in the 5'10 to 6'0 range about 22-22.5" wide, hold considerable volume, have rail dimensions, concave and rocker profiles that are very kneeboard-like. Anyone tried one out? If not, h...

Just picked up a new board, a modified version of the every day 5'10 I desperately love. This one is also 5'10, but tweaked in a number of ways to suit more radical surfing in tighter spaces. It's not really set up to be a plank for sloppy waves, rather quicker and able to turn tighter on smaller wa...

Settled on Tamarindo, surprisingly easy and cheap flight now that Alaska flys direct to Liberia Costa Rica.

Looks like fun to low-end serious swell from both north and south during the trip.

Any tips or recommendations are appreciated.

Henry

San Diego ... that's not a half bad idea Brad - free to stay, free childcare, tropical compared to Seattle, plenty of social life. And the solid winter should continue in San Diego through March this year, right? It should be pumping. Or wait did I just jinx it? The surf gods are cruel that way ... ...