On the Road Monday Surf & Culture Report

Lost Boys & Co…

 

So we're still in Boise this morning and we'll be heading out this evening.  Some great skiing at Bogus Basin and Brundage Mountain, not to mention some great grazing at Steamers, downtown McCall and Lardo's out by the cabin.  But first, let's look at the surf…

 

Partly cloudy skies and 15 miles visibility.  Winds are offshore out of the east by 7.8kts and the sea surface is smooth.  The air temp is 53.7° and the water is 59.0°.  High tide is at 5:13am 5.2' and low tide will be at 12:51pm -0.7'.  The buoy is reading a west swell out of 263° at 5.2'.  The surf is 4' to 6' and you need to find just the right place to make it work for you!

 

Yes, Lardo's!  Lardo's has been a fixture in McCall since the 1920's and they're still acting as though prohibition might come back unannounced.  The Professor started out the evening right, by falling on his ass coming down from the parking lot.  He was there and then he was just gone!  He didn't even hit, he just glanced off of the ground and kept going.  So, he figured it was all downhill from there, hit the threshold and tilted upright.  He and Anaconda Burke, sidled up to the bar and engaged a couple of locals in some sparkling banter:

 

Professor:  (in his Perry Tulare dialect)  Howdy, gentlemen!

 

Gent #1:  (Gent #1, has a Fu Manchu moustache that still has lunch in it)  Where you from?

 

Prof.:  Whoa!  A man fascinated by geography!

 

Gent #2:  (Gent #2, has a full beard which looks like it was made of copper wire, then electrified)  My name's John!

 

Prof.:  Well, there was just someone looking for you at the desk!  (Prof's attempt at humor is met with stony silence.) 

 

Prof.:  Barkeep!  My friends and I will have another round and a Shirley Temple.

 

Gent #1:  A Shirley Temple!

 

Prof.:  Yeah!  When the cop asks you what you been drinkin' you tell him,  "A Shirley Temple."  I hate lying to the constabulary…  What do you guys do up here? 

 

Gent #2:  In the summer I'm a smoke-jumper and during the winter I run a snow plow.

 

Anaconda:  You jump out of perfectly good airplanes?

 

Gent #2:  They ain't never made a perfectly good airplane!

 

(Everyone guffaws, clink glasses and down their shots)

 

Prof.:  Barkeep!  Another round!  (To Gent #1)  So what do you do?

 

Gent #1:  I watch NASCAR!  There's a race tonight!

 

Anaconda:  Are you involved in racing?

 

Gent #1:  Well yeah, I watch it all the time on TV.

 

Anaconda & Prof.:  (Nodding, back and forth) Very cool…  riveting… complex… stimulating...

 

Fortunately, they call our party and Anaconda and the Professor are able to escape without watching the entire Daytona 500…  We do have a new appreciation for auto racing however…

 

"When the surf breaks, we'll fix it…"

  The Professor!!


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