Comments on: Storytime: Feeling the Surfing Blues

By: Meji

Meji — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 20:19:04 +0000

Long time lurker and first time poster, because I just had to comment on this. See I was born and lived all my life in Wisconsin until after I was out of college, but ended up moving to Beaufort, SC less than a year ago. I’d never even seen the ocean until I was 25, and now I live really close to it. :)

By: Haupt

Haupt — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 19:42:31 +0000

I cannot leave Miami or the Ocean I just don’t feel right, I have lived in Tulsa Oklahoma for about 2 years but I got to fly home to the beach each weekend…if I stayed to long I would get crazy. I would get home and get in the cab, cab driver would roll up the indows to put the AC on and i would tell him to leave them down, I needed the salt air.

Since I know what you mean about missing the food, and since i know there is not a Cuban to be found up there, here is a link to get yourself a piece of home..

http://www.cubanfoodmarket.com/

they even ship Cuban bread from what I read….maybe I can move to the mountains???

Just a Bear making sure another bear is well fed!

By: Graimerin

Graimerin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:41:57 +0000

Give him the sea but please dont let him in the brown shoe navy

By: Jenslotte

Jenslotte — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 08:14:36 +0000

“God help me, he’ll probably end up on a Navy Submarine.”

Heh…never thought I’d see those words. From a brother of the ‘phin, if he does, it’s not a bad thing. After 10 years in submarines, I’ve learned that we take care of our own. It’s a hard life, as was your time served, but we are a family. If he is anything like you, we’d be proud to have him.

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Another big bear butt out there….. blocking for the healer.

By: caliokiegirl

caliokiegirl — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 02:55:06 +0000

I hear you Big Bear. I was born and raised in San Diego, and spent most of my life in southern California. I moved out to this foreign land Oklahoma 9 years ago, and boy do I miss the food, the beach, and the wonderful humidity free weather, but my kids love it here, and the people are wonderful. We are planning one of those harrowing road trips next summer to visit all the family, but mostly to see the beach. SSSHHHHH don’t let my Grandma know it would hurt her feelings. Thanks so much for sharing yourself with the rest of us druids. God Bless.

By: Lenaiya

Lenaiya — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 01:34:20 +0000

Mountains? Snow? Water sports?

What are these things you speak of? Oh yeah and then there’s that fabled OCEAN thingy I hear about from time to time. I’m a Texas girl through and through, and I’m very used to my wide open plains. I’m thinking my story will be similar to some of those here. I’ve always lived in Ft. Worth myself, and I’m looking at a strong possibility of moving to Virginia in the next year or so. I met a fellow druid on my server and the sparks are flying like crazy… but he lives in VA and I’m more flexible at this point than he is as far as moving. I get the feeling I’ll be relocating to VA for a large part of my life if things work out. I hear there’s like, hills and trees and stuff there. O.O

By: Rhii

Rhii — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 20:53:23 +0000

Oddly evocative for me too… I grew up in Maine, where you’re very rarely actually *in* the water (are you #$%#$ing kidding me? it’s 15 degrees out?!) but you’re always very aware of it. When I went to college in Indiana, the ocean was the thing I missed. I took my Missourian roommate home to see it in mid-March one year and made her stand in ankle-deep snow on the beach just to look at (and smell) the water.

Through some odd twists and turns, I’ve wound up in landlocked Missouri myself, and look likely to stay in the midwest now. I can’t imagine having kids and not getting to take them to the beach… it would be just a very different childhood than mine.

@Kattrinsaa hello neighbor!

By: Nitedragon

Nitedragon — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 20:06:52 +0000

It’s funny how life goes. I spent 32 years in NC, born and raised. Never thought I’d leave. Then I lost 2 jobs in 1 year. Last year I was offered a job in LA, so packed up and moved. 6 months later, I pack up my pregnant wife and 2 kids and get them out here. We had to leave our families. It was 1 of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do. Child 3 will be here next week. Our families are coming out. I can’t wait and I don’t want it to happen all at the same time. I’m not looking forward to seeing them leave.

But I’ve got a great job with a great company, just wish it was back home.

By: kattrinsaa

kattrinsaa — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 19:08:28 +0000

great story bbb,

i’ve led a twisted life so far as well. I come from that little tiny sliver of yankee land between maine and new york. (of the two possibilites there, i’m talking about vermont.) I could get to the ocean if i wanted to go a few short hours. but the mountains were what fascinated me there.

I now live in a vastly different place. Saying that Texas is big, is like saying an alligator gaar is a fish. Technically true but does nothing to impress on you the truth of the matter.

My spouse hails from the left coast, So-cal to narrow it down a bit. and yet, we both met in the absolute back end middle of nowhere each coming about half the distance from where we started to where the other began.

Now that i’m here, I can’t imagine going anywhere else, tho I do miss the mountains and winter sports from my previous life in vermont.

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 19:07:51 +0000

I grew up on the gulf coast, sitting long into the night fishing off a pier. Water skiing in the bay, getting stranded at the river’s mouth b/c some idiot forgot to fill the gas tank up! *cough* How the heck did I end up in Ft. Worth?! I miss the water too, that is the truth. However, as you said: the woman I love is here, my 2.5 yr old son is the joy of my life, and we’re expecting another to be here soon. There’s no other place I would rather be.