Wouzer! I can't believe that again another year has vanished. "Yet in some ways i still feel like my stomach is still full of pistashieos. Ha"
But alas it has and we are off on another adventure!! Ooo? "Where are they going?" You might not believe it, or if you read all of last years Indian stories you might.
Usually about November, December we start brain storming the most ridiculous adventures we can think up and then in the end we pick the one that everyone says, "don't do that, it sounds horribly dangerous, and possibly not even fun, you'll get sick for sure." "We'll show you", we say. "Mantis and Mango can make anything fun!" And.. Usually we do! And.. It's always fun, though there are always moments when we think, "shit, they were right, this is dangerous, why again are we here?" "O yes, in the name of Adventure!"
Well on that note. November and December conjured up these ideas;
1. Fly back to Indonesia, purchase a 125cc motorcycle a couple of surfboards and attempt to island hop it east to Timor and then south 3 or 4 thousand miles through the desert to Rachaels home town.
2. Meet our friend Will, who is currently cycling around the world, in the Stans part of the world and ride with him for a few months
3. Cycle N to S through South America, emm, that was high up on the list
But then the more we thought about it all we really wanted to do was surf! Not just here a surf, there a surf, but, everywhere a surf, surf! We wanted to get back to our roots. We wanted to be surf bums!! We wanted no responsibilities! We wanted salty skin! We wanted dirty hair! We wanted tans! We wanted warm water! We wanted the sun! We wanted to shut our brain off and not think about anything but the most important thing, surfing! We wanted to wake up and go surfing! Eat breakfast and then go surfing! Take a nap, drink some tea and then go surfing! We wanted to nap in the hammock, read our books and then surf with the setting sun! We wanted to take our passion back!
Goodness me. That really should be so difficult. Pick some where with a high surfing potential for the month of feb and march, get there and don't leave!
Emm? Central america, been there, loved it, but already been there. Hawaii, lots of surfing, but lots of surfers, and aggressive surfers at that. California, emm, to cold. South America, ooo, to much adventure involved. Indonesia, yes, indonesia, the surf meca, but we already been there and it is 24 hours and 1200 dollars away, ahh darn. Brazil, em, nope. Florida, to small.
Yes! I've got it!! Why didn't we think of this in the first place.
Starts with P ends with O. No it is not Poo!
Puerto Rico!! It is close! The are tons of waves! Its cheap to get there. The sun it shining in PR!!
There you have it. We're not venturing so far from home this year! We've rented a house on the ocean, on the surfs up side of Puerto Rico for five whole week!!
And along with our trusty surf boards we'll be living the surf bum dream!!
Who knows, if every thing goes to plan, and all we do is surf, i might not have much to write about, but then again...nothing ever goes to plan! It could go flat for a year, we could have a hurricane, tsunami, earthquake, military cue, taken hosage, ooo geee, maybe we should stay home! I don't think so!
Puerto Rico here we come!!
To the point...i'm sending this email to make you aware that more may be on there way. But more importantly every year after the adventure has begun i get quite a number of folks asking me if i'd mind adding so and so to my email list. No, i don't mind at all! The more people reading nonsense the better. But once we are on the road the internet isn't such a certain thing and so it is far easier for me to add peoples email address to my group list before we go. So, if you know anyone who you feel might appreciate this type of b grade literature please send their email address to me and i'll be sure to add them to the list.
O yes and one other thing...I know i mentioned it at the end of our Indian adventures, it wasn't finished then, but now it is. Mantis and Mango have their own blog site. This means if you are ever hanging out, thinking, i'm board, i wish i had something to read...now you can read any old mantis and mango tale you wish. Not that i really expect anyone too, i mostly did if for my self so that i can keep all my creations in one place, but it is there and you are welcome to it! Not to mention they are also accessible on all your smart phones out there, ooo! I made it mobile device compatible!
O yes and the other other thing. As if 5 weeks of surf bumming in PR weren't enough we're cycling our bicycles a few thousand miles from Georgia back to Plymouth through the mountains so i'm sure there are bound to be some tales.
Love Mantis and Mango
Here's a few photos a what we got up to in 2011
