Whatever

Because that is a default setting, no need to state the obvious

 

Spring of 2003 when I first got the internet

 

Wanted a Subaru Baja wehen I started my journey to a Tacoma. I was looking for the smallest 4 door truck. Coming from Hondas, I wanted that. Ridgeline got terrible gas mileage and the put the spare where? Under the bed floor!

 

I was shooting (photography) surfing on the Outer Banks back in 2019 out in the water. I got stuck in a rip current. It was was definitely a no exaggeration NDE. And crazy enough, I KNEW to swim parallel to the shore but didn't at the time, until after I got pretty tired. But it's scary because you're swimming in and not getting closer. Then I got pitted and went under, bounced off the bottom - and the one moment that wasn't scary was when I was under, I didn't panic, came to the surface. Yeah. The Outer Banks is known for having washing machine like rip currents, they are much stronger than you are. I don't care if you're hulk or you use a Fleshlight 15x a day, you ain't swimming in.

 

I loved the Bajas!

 

Yeah my truck has 2 dents from deer

 

Don’t forget ticks and Lyme disease . I have pulled 5 ticks off me in June and July . During turkey season in May never get them because my clothes are treated with permethrin.

 

Maybe 1991 for me?
Whenever I moved to Tampa
Got high speed internet [for real, test market, cable modem] + cable TV

I remember the moving dudes, moving shit in
I was watching LL Cool J "Mama Gonna Knock You Out" video on MTV
[I never had cable before so this was like -whoa-]
The moving dudes were like, your mama let you watch that stuff
I was like my mom DGAF
He just looked at me, probably thinking crazy white people

My parents DGAF about censoring anything - my mom would just ring in with some moral bullshit [that's bad] once 'n awhile

 

OH. Glad you have come back for the evening.

 

I got caught in a few as a kid @ Emerald Isle - learned the parallel to shore thing fast
Alternatively, you can get washed out to the sandbar, get out there and walk parallel a bit and then swim back

One time we were swimming in a hurricane - the current was ripping us downshore a block every few minutes
We'd get out and run back past the house, hop back in and get ripped downshore again

The only one that ever got me/scared me was a rogue large wave
I went to dive under it and somehow that fucker grabbed my ankle - ripped me under, across a bed of shells and washed me up on shore coughing like crazy

Those waves/currents will throw you like a rag doll and then some

 

That's insane. I mean I get the lure of playing in massive waves, esp during hurricane season but it can be a deadly game. The Outer Banks is pretty sharky too. They love hanging around that area. I need to get back to the beach it's been too long.

I've been to EI once too. Did like it out there a bit.

 

I wish..this wood be it....

 

I would go every summer as a kid - hurricane or not I was swimming, non-stop
My dad was a beach lifeguard for awhile, he never said no or get out

We saw sharks every now and again but it wasn't an actual issue
If we got caught in a school of bait fish, we'd swim out of it but otherwise



I wanna go back but in the winter, when it is super quiet and chill

 

Had gewd wuns had some really bad wuns

 

V-max wood too

 

I def don't mind the OBX in winter. September and October are perfect. I love the outdoor showers out there. My house will HAVE to have an outdoor shower once I find it.

Rodanthe is my favorite spot.

 

One of my favorite concerts… Music for the Masses at a hillside venue in Maryland the name eludes me right now… evening in wonderful weather under the stars with all their lightshow (not so much video like everyone does now).

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