Our tag cloud today…

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.

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)

• You’ll need a Flickr account to do this (it’s free and easy to do)
• Join the group by visiting the group page and clicking “join this group?”
• Upload photos to your account
• Place a photo in the group by clicking the “send to group” icon on an individual photo’s page
• To send a large number of images; upload your photos into a “set” (which you create). Go to the set’s batch operations window. Click “batch edit” and then “send to group.”

We’ve heard from a few people that would be interested in sharing rides from the airport in April. If that’s you, feel free to use the comments field of this post to get in touch with one another. Let us know what day/time you get in (and how many of you there are), as well as how someone should reach you.

If you see someone you can share a ride with and don’t have their contact info just let Caddie or I know and we’ll put you in touch.

Cad and I just spent a few days in Sayulita, nailing down details and surfing as much as possible. Joining us were Cad’s sister Liz and her two boys, Barret and Owen. While in town we took one for the team and tried as many restaurants and bars as we could. Favorites included margaritas at Lupe (and dinner too!), fish sandwich at Don Pedro’s, and the huevos rancheros at El Espresso. Buddha Bar has a great thing going at night, at least those nights they skip the live music. I’d say the overall favorite was Bar Playa…hard to beat a bar on the beach that looks like something out of Gilligan’s Island, but with great margaritas and a better soundtrack.

A left ending at a bar. It’s as if we just removed the leprechaun from the equation entirely. Who needs a middle man anyway?

Flickr: Bar Playa Slideshow

Sayulita is featured prominently in The New York Times’ “Adventure Guide to Mexico.”