Friends and Family

One of my favorite things about stand up paddling is making new friends and reaffirming friendships I've made over the years. This last weekend, I was lucky enough to get to surf the DogPatch twice and to participate in the Stand Up Paddle for the Cure event at Newport Beach. It was a great weekend of paddling. The icing on the cake was reconnecting with my Boga family. Dave and Trish Myler and their two boys are great people. In addition to supporting me in all of my paddle aspirations they are just plain fun to be around and their devotion and commitment to the sport of stand up paddle is inspiring.

One of a million funny moments with my friend Trish Myler. 

Boga donated a board to the event and also brought down somewhere in the neighborhood of twenty demo boards for anybody and everybody to use totally free of charge. Dave Myler busted his butt setting up the Boga display booth sometime around sun up, hung out all day teaching stand up lessons, then loaded it all up at the end of the day- what did he do next? Beat us to the DogPatch the next morning (he got there around 6am!), surf for four hours, pack up the family and drove eight hours back home. Now that's commitment! I love my Boga family, they're an inspiration- I'm just hoping we can finally pull together the mainland Mex surf trip we've been talking about for so long!