New England braces for major snow storm

[Purrfessor]

27. I spent many weekends back in the 60s and 70s surfing Cocoa Beach

and Sebastian Inlet. I actually once traveled from Tampa to Cocoa Beach on a Greyhound bus with my board stored next to me in the aisle. Another time my friend and I caught a ride there. We met two girls on the beach who kept us distracted (they encouraged us to swim with them) while their boyfriends dug our wallets up, leaving us without any money. And our ride back was not due to pick us up for three days.

Another time during Spring Break, we were sleeping on the beach with our boards. About 2AM a couple guys woke us up and said they were leaving early and we could have their room. We left our boards outside the door. When we finally got up the boards had been stolen. They were lousy boards so it wasn't a big loss. When we tried to find out who had been staying in the room where we slept, the manager said that room had not been rented. Apparently the culprits broke in, offered us the room, then made off with our boards.


Our favorite binge place to eat was at the old Howard Johnson's on the beach. On Friday nights they had all-you-can-eat fried clam night. We never failed to get at least twice our monies worth?

Ah, the old days. I later lived in Northern California for 25 years and never surfed because of the cold water. I'm now landlocked in Ohio.