22 weeks. Trucker is the size of a papaya and we’re in San Miguel de Allende.

Our tag cloud today…

Baja 2002 from caddie hastings on Vimeo.

Caddie, Steve, Dan and Ben in a 2002 road trip through Baja.

We just spent a week in Sayulita with Steve Selwood, Clea Karlstom, their son Tyler, and Dan Shivone. It was a reunion of sorts. Way back in 2002, Steve, Dan, Caddie and I spent a week driving around Baja. It was an amazing time, we’ve talked about getting back together somewhere ever since. Seven years later we finally did, and this time around Clea bagged work to join us. It was another great week; 2-3 surf sessions a day, movie nights with our DVD projector, and one tequila-fueled argument with a very vocal Mexican woman during the US-Mexico soccer game (for the record, I was right). Already looking forward to reunion trip #3, somewhere well inside of seven years from now.

Just back from a few days in Tulum, Mexico for Trip and Jesse’s wedding.

Sixth Finger (featuring Dew), “Patience (Cool Wave Mix)”

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How do you sum up the two weeks that we just had? I’m not sure that you can, or that I can anyway.

It was so much fun to watch Sayulita slowly fill up with friends and family in the week leading up to the 21st. As for that Monday evening – I knew it would be intense, emotional, and amazing. I had no idea just how much so. The entire week was incredible. I couldn’t take a timeout and let myself nap (or get a full night’s sleep). I just didn’t want to miss a thing. One of my favorite parts of that second week was running into everyone as we walked into and around town or after we’d paddled out into the lineup (I think Adam and Ben P. are still out there).

Thank you again to everybody who traveled all the way to Sayulita – and to those who pitched in and helped out in one way or another.

We’ll be going back often…hope to see you all there at one point or another. April ’09 anyone? If so we should plan now (I’m not kidding).

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Our Flickr group is up and growing, feel free to post your own!

We’ve also posted the music playlists should you want them:

• Sunday Night
• Monday Night (before the Evans/Skaff takeover)
• Master List (music pulled from our library to compile the edited down lists above)

Last week in Banderas Bay, Mexico.

I was sorting through some old photos the other day and came across a few classics. This one I don’t remember even having seen before (though I must have). Taken on a 2002 road trip through Baja with Caddie, Steve Selwood, and Dan Shivone. We were a couple hours and about a case into our drive out to Laguna San Ignacio. The whale-watching outfitters wanted to charge over $100/each to cart us from the town of San Ignacio to the lagoon. Instead we elected to drive ourselves out in our rented Dodge Stratus on the sometimes-awful road. We were generally moving slowly enough that if you needed a bathroom break you’d just open the door and get out. Somewhere Caddie has classic video footage of the whole trip…