When my husband and I visited Costa Rica last year for the first time, on a lark, we decided to learn to surf. Based on all the reviews that we read on TripAdvisor, we decided on Surf Simply. I know that I’ve waxed poetically about Surf Simply before and called it the best surf [...]
When I was little, my family used to vacation in Sanibel Island, Florida. I remember the pristine beaches and shells. I also remember my Dad bringing home conch to our condo and my Mom cooking it for dinner. I could totally be making that last bit up since I was only about four or five (or six?) years [...]
Photo: Oriana Fowler/Surf Simply A year ago, I was on a beach in Costa Rica doing something I never dreamed of doing – learning to surf. I’m not exaggerating when I say that surfing changed my life. I never would have thought that I would own two surfboards, surf in NYC, religiously check the surf [...]
Surf bikini from Desi’s Bikini Boutique – a Costa Rican designer. It’s a reversible suit but I’m not sure I’m brave enough to wear the animal print side! {Note: I anticipate that this will be one of many posts in which I’m ignoring the fact that I’m having knee surgery soon and pretending that surf [...]
Dear Shoulders and Back, I’m sorry. I haven’t been treating you very well. You’ve been abused by all those years studying hunched over books followed by years of sitting in front of a computer. You’ve been trying to tell me to take better care of you. You started with my posture, shoulders rolling inwards and [...]
Learning proper paddle technique at Surf Simply. Photo: Oriana Fowler/Surf Simply I think that the hardest part of surfing for me – both mentally and physically – is the paddle out. Standing at the water’s edge, I have to psyche myself up so that I can keep my fear and anxiety at bay and so [...]
Okay, now that we own two surfboards, um, where exactly do we store them in our apartment? So that they are out of the way, yet easily accessible when we need them, and not in danger of falling on top of our children? Yeah, that wouldn’t be so good. Right now, this is where our [...]
I have been meaning to post this for a few weeks now but the weather here on the East Coast has been so unseasonably warm that I kept thinking that there would be a chance that I could make it out to surf again. But, looking back, I am kind of glad that my session [...]
