The 3-Hour-Surf Trip
The key to success for a 3-hour surf trip is being thoroughly unprepared for everything that might happen. This starts at home. Skip the surf cams and text chains about conditions. See if the tree by your house is moving. If so, consider it windy. That should be all the meteorology you need.
Next, grab one surfboard, one wetsuit, one towel and put it in your car. Forget your wax on purpose. You can borrow some. You’re on airplane mode. Drive away, tell no one. Whoops we forgot our leash too. Oh well.
Allow yourself to observe the outside world. See how it moves and breathes. It’s batshit crazy and makes no sense. Totally inefficient and broken. Trucks and Petcos and dog poop on the sidewalk. Lines at CVS and the carwash. Drive-thru donuts and girls on rollerskates. Kind of beautiful really. Bluetooth forcefields will try to keep you at bay. Say hello anyway. Even the mailman is still out here! Wild, right?
Did you know there are people who think Artificial Intelligence will lead us to more leisure time? Imagine that. More time to enjoy simple things like buying envelopes like writer Kurt Vonnegut:
“I once told my wife I was going out to buy an envelope: “Oh,” she said, “well, you’re not a poor man. You know, why don’t you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet?” And so I pretended not to hear her. And went out to get an envelope because I have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope.I meet a lot of people. And see some great looking babies. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And I’ll ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don’t know. The moral of the story is — we’re here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And what the computer people don’t realize, or they don’t care, is we’re dancing animals. You know, we love to move around. And it’s like we’re not supposed to dance anymore.”
I was going to keep writing but I think that’s all I need to tell you about the benefits of the 3-hour surf trip. I hope you have a hell of a good time.—Travis Ferré
